Does anyone have any photos or diagrams of this? (I have the PDF). It's so long since I took the damn thing apart, I've forgotten how to reassemble it. In particular, there seem to be two bearings. I know one goes on that shaft thing, I don't know about the other.
Help required - OutRun2 steering
- Thread starter Spanky
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Do the diagrams in this help?
https://arcarc.xmission.com/PDF_Arcade_Manuals_and_Schematics/Outrun 2 Twin.pdf
https://arcarc.xmission.com/PDF_Arcade_Manuals_and_Schematics/Outrun 2 Twin.pdf
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Lost the circlip. Oh well. Measure, order a set of circlips off ebay. Wait a week. Find I need one 1mm bigger in diameter. Order another set. Wait another week. Fit circlip.
Now I can hammer the shaft and the bearing into the thing. Spend five minutes whacking it with a hammer, job done. Or not, as I forgot to put the rubber stopper in, so I'll need to revert the whole thing.
Balance the thing on two bits of wood, whack it with a hammer. Nothing happens. Apart from it falling on the ground and the new powder coating getting chipped.
Upon inspection, the rotating thing was in line with the stopper bracket bit, which is now bent. That's why it wasn't shifting. Now I'm covered in sweat and being eaten by insects.
Tomorrow I get to take it all apart, try and hammer the thing back into shape. Do I take it back to the powder coating cunt? Who despite running a business can't do emails. And I can't drive at the moment, so everything's a fucking major mission.
Fuck.
Now I can hammer the shaft and the bearing into the thing. Spend five minutes whacking it with a hammer, job done. Or not, as I forgot to put the rubber stopper in, so I'll need to revert the whole thing.
Balance the thing on two bits of wood, whack it with a hammer. Nothing happens. Apart from it falling on the ground and the new powder coating getting chipped.
Upon inspection, the rotating thing was in line with the stopper bracket bit, which is now bent. That's why it wasn't shifting. Now I'm covered in sweat and being eaten by insects.
Tomorrow I get to take it all apart, try and hammer the thing back into shape. Do I take it back to the powder coating cunt? Who despite running a business can't do emails. And I can't drive at the moment, so everything's a fucking major mission.
Fuck.
Have days like it myself, chillout for a bit and get head back in right place, take your time next go
I've just made 8 brackets for me surround speakers, 1st coat of paint, dropped it on the slabs taking it off the wire hanger
Can't you just touch up the areas with paint, be cheaper. can get cans of 2k paint which is good but have to use it all, or could get some like this and paint on with brush, hardens like powdercoat and get delivered so no messing about taking it places
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334502130531
Instead of bashing things in, how about bolts and plates to wind things in more like using press, always ways to do stuff if you have the bits lying around is the other issue
I've just made 8 brackets for me surround speakers, 1st coat of paint, dropped it on the slabs taking it off the wire hanger
Can't you just touch up the areas with paint, be cheaper. can get cans of 2k paint which is good but have to use it all, or could get some like this and paint on with brush, hardens like powdercoat and get delivered so no messing about taking it places
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334502130531
Instead of bashing things in, how about bolts and plates to wind things in more like using press, always ways to do stuff if you have the bits lying around is the other issue
It's just the whole "one step forward, two steps back" thing that gets me down. Such as buying three bearing pullers until I got the correct one.
This part won't be visible, but I don't like the idea of someone else seeing it in thirty years time and thinking I did a half-arsed job.
I like things done right or I do jobs at the best of my ability but even I wouldn't worry that much, touch it up and forget about it as you say you won't see it and I doubt many would even take slightest notice so don't beat ya self up on it
Get the one step forward, two back as I feel the same quite often these days, It takes me ages doing things now, soon as I start trying to get things done quicker I make mistakes, I'd about got this Crane Grabber conversion nearly there, mains transformer was buzzing like mad and even causing the smaller one in the control board to buzz, I swapped it out so more work as i'd put T Nuts under to bolt original to the wood, so save take it all out just fitted smaller transformer on some wood and bolt that down, then I thought lets see if I can get rid of the 12v adaptor to power the coin mech and pcb from main unit, found 11.5v so connect to that, when operating the coin mech bulb brightness was changing, it was at 18v so back to fitting the 12v adaptor as I've no idea what it was power from in the original machine, the manual doesn't help
Now the coin mech don't work
so I get another one which doesn't work, this one has led but coins go through it goes green but won't register so you think it's damaged the credit board but it works when test button pressed, swap it anyway and still same so wtf has it done. then to make it worse the 2 digital LED display wasn't working, so looking at manual I decided to mess with settings holding down buttons and pressing joystick, I've not got it stuck in test mode and can't get the frickin thing out of it again, you need to display to see what your doing but i've followed the instructions doing it blind and can't do it, so one step forward on that and five steps back, wasted so much time making parts for it for nothing currently so that's still sat there and just getting on with other things
Retroman839
Senior Member
Blew up my mister and mister expander last week £350 flick of the switch …
Manafacturer of the expander says it was my fault I must have a dodgy cab ?
But I use loads of diffrent pcb
And monitor the 5v. I got 5.1
5.2v. Só fuck knows …
Maybe I’m getting spikes as caps are going in the psu ..
I’m this hobby a mistake is expensive , Chasiss , pcb, mechanical parts , spray jobs ..
Custom parts ..
Today at work I have an rsj 1” to high .. when I left it just popped into my head that the flooring is 22mm high só the discrepancy is taken care off with floor board thickness,,,
Not perfect but works !
Some times a step back is a step forwards, I have learned the hard way that it really does pay to stop and take some time to have a good think about what your doing, a rest normally allows the brain to work better. Fresh eyes
I have a spare Dayotna dash
Manafacturer of the expander says it was my fault I must have a dodgy cab ?
But I use loads of diffrent pcb
And monitor the 5v. I got 5.1
5.2v. Só fuck knows …
Maybe I’m getting spikes as caps are going in the psu ..
I’m this hobby a mistake is expensive , Chasiss , pcb, mechanical parts , spray jobs ..
Custom parts ..
Today at work I have an rsj 1” to high .. when I left it just popped into my head that the flooring is 22mm high só the discrepancy is taken care off with floor board thickness,,,
Not perfect but works !
Some times a step back is a step forwards, I have learned the hard way that it really does pay to stop and take some time to have a good think about what your doing, a rest normally allows the brain to work better
. Fresh eyesI have a spare Dayotna dash
Status update: this is doing my fruit in.
This is the current state of play. I need to get that bearing down to the bottom of the shaft.
I've been whacking it with a club hammer via a bit of steel pipe I got specially for this purpose, but it's buggered the bearing.
Now I need to get that bearing off, which means buying another bearing puller (this will be the fourth).
And I need to figure out what do next. Any ideas?
This is the current state of play. I need to get that bearing down to the bottom of the shaft.
I've been whacking it with a club hammer via a bit of steel pipe I got specially for this purpose, but it's buggered the bearing.
Now I need to get that bearing off, which means buying another bearing puller (this will be the fourth).
And I need to figure out what do next. Any ideas?
I take it you've used lubricant?
TBH I've never had one of these bearings be so hard to fit/remove. And the shaft looks an unusual colour from the image I'm seeing on my phone.. at nearly midnight. Is it a repro?
Too many dodgy phrases in this post!
TBH I've never had one of these bearings be so hard to fit/remove. And the shaft looks an unusual colour from the image I'm seeing on my phone.. at nearly midnight. Is it a repro?
Too many dodgy phrases in this post!
Yeah it shouldn't be that hard to fit Bearings and aren't the shafts normally black? like in Gary's pics
I'm sure I had a new Shaft at one point, I know I bought a Outrun Control Panel years ago and it came with the splines for the wheel damaged, not sure if that's a common thing the splines getting broken/Worn? sure they were broken off
Seem to think I had a replacement but not sure I used it, trouble is memory of did I sell it already or it's in a box somewhere buried or did I imagine it, anything is possible
If your hammering a bearing on, shouldn't need a BIG hammer else something wrong, just a slight mark in the shaft could get it stuck, also hitting the inner ring should stop it being damaged, the outside i didn't once on open bearing and it knocked it apart and balls fall out
I'm sure I had a new Shaft at one point, I know I bought a Outrun Control Panel years ago and it came with the splines for the wheel damaged, not sure if that's a common thing the splines getting broken/Worn? sure they were broken off
Seem to think I had a replacement but not sure I used it, trouble is memory of did I sell it already or it's in a box somewhere buried or did I imagine it, anything is possible
If your hammering a bearing on, shouldn't need a BIG hammer else something wrong, just a slight mark in the shaft could get it stuck, also hitting the inner ring should stop it being damaged, the outside i didn't once on open bearing and it knocked it apart and balls fall out
Oh, was I supposed to lubricate it?
Getting it off will be the easy part. It's getting the replacement back on that will be tricky. I think I'll have to take it to a metal bending place where they have an arbor press or something.
The original shaft was coated in black, but was a bit rusty, and has yet to reappear. The replacement has some strange welds on it.
Getting it off will be the easy part. It's getting the replacement back on that will be tricky. I think I'll have to take it to a metal bending place where they have an arbor press or something.
The original shaft was coated in black, but was a bit rusty, and has yet to reappear. The replacement has some strange welds on it.
Took it to a metal fabricator ages ago. There's no use me ringing and trying to describe the thing, so I need to go round in person.
This involves taking a day off work, and because I can't drive, it involves buses and trains.
Readers may remember I'm unable to drive at the moment because
Went back the next day, arrived at the place at 12.30 to find the bloke locking the gates. Forgot they close at 12.30 on a Friday.
Went back again today. The woman in the office went and got a bloke in blue overalls from the workshop, he was the one I had dealt with before, so knew what was what. "It's in the freezer", he said, and disappeared. Reappeared moments later with the spindle, mumbled something about doing it now, and went off again.
Came back seconds later with it looking as shown in the photo below.
"Sorry about that mate. Good luck with it." 🤦♂️
You may or may not recall this is the second one, the first having been lost by the powder coating cunts.
I honestly gave up the will to live a very long time ago, and things are not getting any better. 😢
This involves taking a day off work, and because I can't drive, it involves buses and trains.
Readers may remember I'm unable to drive at the moment because
- My previous GP is a backstabbing Judas cow
- My current GP doesn't seem to be able to tick the correct box on a form
- The Department of Vile Losers and Arseholes are dragging their feet
- My car needs £1100 spending on it to get it through the MoT
Went back the next day, arrived at the place at 12.30 to find the bloke locking the gates. Forgot they close at 12.30 on a Friday.
Went back again today. The woman in the office went and got a bloke in blue overalls from the workshop, he was the one I had dealt with before, so knew what was what. "It's in the freezer", he said, and disappeared. Reappeared moments later with the spindle, mumbled something about doing it now, and went off again.
Came back seconds later with it looking as shown in the photo below.
"Sorry about that mate. Good luck with it." 🤦♂️
You may or may not recall this is the second one, the first having been lost by the powder coating cunts.
I honestly gave up the will to live a very long time ago, and things are not getting any better. 😢
Retroman839
Senior Member
ASK them to pay for a replacement.
call trading standers
If you left it with them and they broke it They should Honer a replacement ..
call trading standers
If you left it with them and they broke it They should Honer a replacement ..