Hi guys, this raid isn't as epic as some of the ones posted here but I thought I'd share it with you all
An advert on Gumtree came up back end of last week for a Star Wars Racer arcade machine, as it was local I phoned the guy to enquire about and he told me he had some other arcade machines there too, so on Saturday Big Phil, Fat Apollo and myself had a trip down to a warehouse in Sunderland to check out what this guy had
Some of the machine's we spotted were this Konami cab, have no idea what it is !
These are the controllers for it...
Any idea what it is ?
Control/seat section of a Sega 18 Wheeler...
The screen section was in the warehouse but was behind a load of crap and we couldn't get it to get any good photo's
Part of a Sega Jurassic Park cab...
Again, there was another section to this but we couldn't get in to get any photo's
Also spotted this monster Sega cab
The guy assured us it worked but it looked rough
This would look mint in Big Phil's garage...
The rest of the of the warehouse was full of tat spotted boxes and boxes of World Cup '98 key rings and pallets full of this...
Anyway I was interested in the Sega Star Wars Racer and the guy had two so we decided to have a look at them
The control/seat pods were together in one part of the warehouse, one of the screens somewhere else and the other screen behind loads of stuff with the other 18 Wheeler/Jurassic Park bits !
Pulling the first Star Wars control Pod out...
Upon closer inspection at the back it was full of sh*t and chewed wires...
Pulling the PCB boards out revealed the same
The wooden mounting board was covered in sh*t and the even the PCB's were. A lot of wires had been chewed through and the little feckers had probably pee'd all over them too
Pulling the second control pod out...
This time the boards looked a lot better with only a handful of poo !
As we couldn't test the cab on site we decided to split the control/seat section
We took off the metal plates on the sides and then realised this bloody big metal plate was holding the two sections together. Time to get it on it's side...Geedup !
Whilst me and Big Phil were doing this Fat Apollo was removing the boost button assembly from the other control pod as the one we wanted had a chunk of plastic missing...
He made a new friend too
We were ready to load up so started moving the sections towards the loading bay...
Bracket on right hand side of screen sectiion had been mangled off and wooden mounts damaged plus it was missing. Should fill over ok plus somehow Big Phil managed to squeeze himself through mountains of junk to remove the bracket from the second screen !
Finally after a couple of hours we got my van loaded, it all fit like a glove
Drove back home parked the van up had a good scrub and then we we're out to my local for some proper good ales !
Sunday we dropped the cab off. My cousin has a good size unit on an industrial estate near to me where he repairs cars/does engine conversions so he had plenty of space
Big Phil gave the insides of the cab a good hoover to remove any dust/crap whilst Fat Apollo and myself gave the exterior a good old clean up
Time to plug it all together and fire it up...
Nowt on screen
Boards appear to be working...
Then the screen came to life
Good bit of burn on it but once in the game it looks ok, amazed it still worked !
Obviously I had to have first go on it
Then a few more test pilots...
So all in all it was a good weekend !
I know it's a huge feck off cab but I'm lucky I've got space to store it !
The guy who had all the cabs had pulled them from Metroland at the Metrocentre in Gateshead but as any local knows Metroland went years ago so these cabs have been sitting for some time but I'm chuffed mine works and it was a good price
Massive thanks to Big Phil and Fat Apollo and also me cousin for storing it for me !
An advert on Gumtree came up back end of last week for a Star Wars Racer arcade machine, as it was local I phoned the guy to enquire about and he told me he had some other arcade machines there too, so on Saturday Big Phil, Fat Apollo and myself had a trip down to a warehouse in Sunderland to check out what this guy had
Some of the machine's we spotted were this Konami cab, have no idea what it is !
These are the controllers for it...
Any idea what it is ?
Control/seat section of a Sega 18 Wheeler...
The screen section was in the warehouse but was behind a load of crap and we couldn't get it to get any good photo's
Part of a Sega Jurassic Park cab...
Again, there was another section to this but we couldn't get in to get any photo's
Also spotted this monster Sega cab
The guy assured us it worked but it looked rough
This would look mint in Big Phil's garage...
The rest of the of the warehouse was full of tat spotted boxes and boxes of World Cup '98 key rings and pallets full of this...
Anyway I was interested in the Sega Star Wars Racer and the guy had two so we decided to have a look at them
The control/seat pods were together in one part of the warehouse, one of the screens somewhere else and the other screen behind loads of stuff with the other 18 Wheeler/Jurassic Park bits !
Pulling the first Star Wars control Pod out...
Upon closer inspection at the back it was full of sh*t and chewed wires...
Pulling the PCB boards out revealed the same
The wooden mounting board was covered in sh*t and the even the PCB's were. A lot of wires had been chewed through and the little feckers had probably pee'd all over them too
Pulling the second control pod out...
This time the boards looked a lot better with only a handful of poo !
As we couldn't test the cab on site we decided to split the control/seat section
We took off the metal plates on the sides and then realised this bloody big metal plate was holding the two sections together. Time to get it on it's side...Geedup !
Whilst me and Big Phil were doing this Fat Apollo was removing the boost button assembly from the other control pod as the one we wanted had a chunk of plastic missing...
He made a new friend too
We were ready to load up so started moving the sections towards the loading bay...
Bracket on right hand side of screen sectiion had been mangled off and wooden mounts damaged plus it was missing. Should fill over ok plus somehow Big Phil managed to squeeze himself through mountains of junk to remove the bracket from the second screen !
Finally after a couple of hours we got my van loaded, it all fit like a glove
Drove back home parked the van up had a good scrub and then we we're out to my local for some proper good ales !
Sunday we dropped the cab off. My cousin has a good size unit on an industrial estate near to me where he repairs cars/does engine conversions so he had plenty of space
Big Phil gave the insides of the cab a good hoover to remove any dust/crap whilst Fat Apollo and myself gave the exterior a good old clean up
Time to plug it all together and fire it up...
Nowt on screen
Boards appear to be working...
Then the screen came to life
Good bit of burn on it but once in the game it looks ok, amazed it still worked !
Obviously I had to have first go on it
Then a few more test pilots...
So all in all it was a good weekend !
I know it's a huge feck off cab but I'm lucky I've got space to store it !
The guy who had all the cabs had pulled them from Metroland at the Metrocentre in Gateshead but as any local knows Metroland went years ago so these cabs have been sitting for some time but I'm chuffed mine works and it was a good price
Massive thanks to Big Phil and Fat Apollo and also me cousin for storing it for me !
Hard game, would definately be one to benefit from long term play.