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EDOT King
Well,
This cab has taken me over 2 years to build!Its been great fun tracking all the parts down for it,and rebuilding/restoring the ones i had chased from the other side of the world too!
I also had to improvise and make some till i find them.
I got the cab from a forum member Steve,nice one dude.i repaired some vector monitor boards for him and paid i think £80? correct me if im wrong Steve.
It was a bare shell almost and had been converted to play Asteroids,but it was originally a Lunar Lander
I wanted this back to original,and next to my Asteroids.
So the chase began to get all the parts,the worst 2 to get were indeed the pcb,and the thruster.
some of the art/cpo/marque even side art have been reproduced now anyway,and pcb,s do show on KLOV and seem to hit good money.
I had a brick/AR2/monitor already so i rebuilt these ready.
i converted the loom back from Asteroids to Lunar Lander,but was missing the CPO loom from the multi plug under the panel,id have to make this in situ.
The pcb was from Alpha1 and was kindly repaired by Guddler (thx guys)
The thruster was from Arcadefixit.com but i had to make the thruster assembly myself again till i find one.
Control panel was from Mr Archer Mclean
many thx for all your help Sir.
The Mission select pcb and wooden spacer was from P-Man thx Andy
Stored for yeeeears & Dug up and posted by Ade
The Marque was from Phoenixarcade.com
The repro Mission select pcb and mission select lens was from Thisoldgame.com
Thruster cover from a Great Klov Member
I spent the ££ and hours doing the rest
this arrived via Martin "The deliveryman"
Panel and back door sheet from Archer:-
Initially i was only gonna get it running and original as poss,but once i started fitting parts others looked tatty,so i repaired/cleaned/polished some stuff as i built it.
AR1:- Old and Rebuilt ready
Mucky brick
Primed
sprayed
Thruster cover Repro from great KLOV member
Needs some nice new Teflons!
Quick clean inside
Monitor ready for a rebuild/clean.
It works but i want it SOLID!
Repair the damaged/parts missing light
Stripping the coin door/metal parts for paint
old asty loom il hack up
control panel re-wired
out with the Schems!
repro mission select
Original Mission select,hmm which one
I have the thruster here now but have to build the holder from scratch!
no drawings to work off or another thruster to copy,i have to use pics from the net.
pretty simple and wont be visible but i want it to work and look good,the end result im happy with ,it works and i rekon looks fine!
I decide to re-use the Asty panel as i have 3 and this is the sh*ttest,so its gonna get re-cycled...
All migged up
test mock up to see if it all works!
another part hacked from an old atari cab,this will hold the 5k very well..
Heres the repaired pcb!
She needs a cardboard bezel for the monitor.but thats not easily seen without a flash.
forcefulfil2015-04-12 15:42:53
This cab has taken me over 2 years to build!Its been great fun tracking all the parts down for it,and rebuilding/restoring the ones i had chased from the other side of the world too!
I also had to improvise and make some till i find them.
I got the cab from a forum member Steve,nice one dude.i repaired some vector monitor boards for him and paid i think £80? correct me if im wrong Steve.
It was a bare shell almost and had been converted to play Asteroids,but it was originally a Lunar Lander
I wanted this back to original,and next to my Asteroids.
So the chase began to get all the parts,the worst 2 to get were indeed the pcb,and the thruster.
some of the art/cpo/marque even side art have been reproduced now anyway,and pcb,s do show on KLOV and seem to hit good money.
I had a brick/AR2/monitor already so i rebuilt these ready.
i converted the loom back from Asteroids to Lunar Lander,but was missing the CPO loom from the multi plug under the panel,id have to make this in situ.
The pcb was from Alpha1 and was kindly repaired by Guddler (thx guys)
The thruster was from Arcadefixit.com but i had to make the thruster assembly myself again till i find one.
Control panel was from Mr Archer Mclean
The Mission select pcb and wooden spacer was from P-Man thx Andy
The Marque was from Phoenixarcade.com
The repro Mission select pcb and mission select lens was from Thisoldgame.com
Thruster cover from a Great Klov Member
I spent the ££ and hours doing the rest
this arrived via Martin "The deliveryman"
Panel and back door sheet from Archer:-
Initially i was only gonna get it running and original as poss,but once i started fitting parts others looked tatty,so i repaired/cleaned/polished some stuff as i built it.
AR1:- Old and Rebuilt ready
Mucky brick
Primed
sprayed
Thruster cover Repro from great KLOV member
Needs some nice new Teflons!
Quick clean inside
Monitor ready for a rebuild/clean.
It works but i want it SOLID!
Repair the damaged/parts missing light
Stripping the coin door/metal parts for paint
old asty loom il hack up
control panel re-wired
out with the Schems!
repro mission select
Original Mission select,hmm which one
I have the thruster here now but have to build the holder from scratch!
no drawings to work off or another thruster to copy,i have to use pics from the net.
pretty simple and wont be visible but i want it to work and look good,the end result im happy with ,it works and i rekon looks fine!
I decide to re-use the Asty panel as i have 3 and this is the sh*ttest,so its gonna get re-cycled...
All migged up
test mock up to see if it all works!
another part hacked from an old atari cab,this will hold the 5k very well..
Heres the repaired pcb!
She needs a cardboard bezel for the monitor.but thats not easily seen without a flash.
forcefulfil2015-04-12 15:42:53
