Gonna post this in a seperate thread so its not ruining the Arcade 24/7 one. Any suggestions or help on this would be cool. Next thing im going to do is remove everything from the insides so just the shell is left. Im worried about touching stuff in it, does anyone know if anything in here will be holding a charge? I know i have to discharge the monitor, but anything else in there dangerous?
Kevin did you remove all the insides from your cocktail cab??
I got lucky last week and managed to pick up TWO cocktail cabs off a mate of the lad I bought the Street Fighter 2 cab from. So here they are in all their glory. I believe the Taito Space Invaders one came out around 1978 so its pretty old and its WELL used. They are in fairly bad condition so it will be a lot of work. Both still get power though.
There is no glass on the Moon Base one, its gone totally and the Glass on the Space Invaders is in a bad way, full of scratches. I’m guessing i’ll replace the glass on both. Ill get all the metal parts and legs sandblasted and powder coated, clean up the wood. maybe get the black base’s sprayed black.
Initial first look and I can see that the screen in Moon Base is fecked totally, the neck of the crt is broken off and sitting in the bottom of the cab. Both power on but neither have anything on screen, a slight flickering on the space invaders.
I checked the fuses with my multimeter and there is one fuse gone in both. So i take the good fuse from Moon Base and stick it in the space invaders cab in place of the one that’s gone.
When I power up the space invaders i get a pop and smoke from an area filled with a few capacitors. The good fuse blows.
Talking to the lads over on Jamma+ they suggest that ceramic resistor is sitting on one of the caps and could be causing the issue, as you can see in the photo some of the blue wrap on the resistor seems to be melted away a bit. So I reached in and gently lifted that resistor up off the cap. Unfortunately as of now, I have no quick blow fuses to replace the ones that have blown so Ive bought a few 30mm 2Amp ones off eBay.
Until they arrive there is not much else I can do. I did have about 30 quid sitting in my pay-pal account so I bought a repro CP fro the player 2 side of the cab, couldnt find player one at the minute but ill keep looking
Its a pity i couldnt find a player 1 side in stock but ill keep my eye on the site and hopefully he will get them in down the road.
I drilled out the old locks on the coin door and found a shiny 10p in the box. I forgot how HUGE the 10p coins where! I think im going to keep that and leave the coin door on 10p per game and just use this coin to play it.
I have a feeling that this cocktail restore is going to take a lot of time! Im determined though to restore it back to its original state with the original game inside working. There is no way im going to tear apart a piece of gaming history like this.
As for the Moon Base one, im not sure what to do with it, id love to restore both, but because the monitor is gone in it, im not sure what to do.
