Today is a public holiday in the US and I just happen to have the day off of work, but my better half did not, which can only mean one thing. Time to get back to the Defender resto project. I don't yet have an abundance of parts and electronics I will need to get this up and running, however my goal for today is for better or worse get as much as possible back together and get the thing in a climate controlled environment. The summers are brutal humid in the Carolinas and at the rate I am going I definitely don't want it out there for a whole summer.
I pulled the monitor and put it on a shelf some time ago because of the rust damage on the metal frame. First I pulled that off, removed the chassis, and dismantled the frame from the CRT. I then went over as much as I could. I wasn't trying for perfection just to try to neutralise the rust and clean it up some.
Not the original monitor then.
After that I put it all back together, chassis and all deciding I want to live in the fantasy this monitor will just fire up first time and work.
I bought replacement cabinet locks, matching keys for front and back. Fitted the lock to the back door. If this thing is going in the house it must be cat proof.
Next I took the monitor shroud and gave that a good cleaning. Maybe the first clean it has ever seen.
With those parts reinstalled into the cabinet I turned my attention to the parts box I have long since forgotten the complete contents of.
From this I fitted the coin door retainers and the control panel latch hooks. I also fitted the control panel latches from the Black Tiger control panel to this Defender control panel.
At this point I figured I should make sure the control panel latches down. I found both were far too loose. I can only imagine the operator in their conversion to Black Tiger took out some of the wood for some reason or another. A bit of time on the table saw and I had some wood pieces cut to fill in the void.
Bit of paint on them just for the sake of it since it is out in the garage still.
Took a look at the coin box itself. Just turning the thing upside down a hideous amount of loose rust dropped out. Not sure what to do here yet, whether this get the full on vinegar bath or not. I ended up putting this off for another day.
While I wimped out on the big remaining rust projects - the coin door and coin bucket, I did go through sand the heads on a load of screws and give them a coat of satin black rattle can so I can have less visible rust on the monitor trim pieces. Once those were dry I installed the marquee, bezel, and CP. Stupid me left my new bezel at work so I'll have to fit that another day.
With all that work done I took the Jamma loom into the house to work out the wires for the monitor connector and sack trucked it into the finished basement. Hopefully with it now in the house I will be more motivated to work on it. Oh and as you can see I needed to temporarily block the coin door hole so this doesn't become the next cat toy.
Next up I need to get my parts orders on.
ArcadeAddict772018-01-15 20:08:58
