Prepare to BE raided

[ocb]

So, the 8 cabs ... became 18 ... ended up with 24 cabs.
I have a couple of MCT 900, and I’ll try to go back tomorrow or an evening during the week to grab some more complete looking monitors.

There are still boxes of joysticks (some new), boards, a couple of NOS Dell CRT, marquees, back doors, and various other “carp” that I’d have if I had the time and the space.

So, for those who know Peter-he is Rastermania. He’s decided to get out of the “cab” business and concentrate on console cables etc.

There are some interesting grabs, like a couple of Bally Continental “TenniScoop”-TTL games that last popped up 10 years ago as “not working” on a 2nd hand site. Good news they look complete at first sight, but cpo etc have suffered a bit.

There’s also a couple of US Atari I think were Super Breakout. Been painted and CPO messed with - but one still has original Atari serial number etc. I’ll be curious to dig around that one some more.

There is a Qix, a nice old red and white Taito that doesn’t have its original marquee or board etc - but it has such cool factor a guy jumped out his car when we were taking it from the van to our temporary storage to ask to buy it!

Alas, I was far too pushed for time and didn’t have time for many photos.

I’ll see what I can upload the next few days.

I did right by taking my gloves,heavy duty Dunlop workwear trousers, heavy duty shoes - mistake wearing my normal winter coat, which now has a film of grey crud on it.

Plan is, if possible, get back over tomorrow and grab some more. The heavy lifting and shifting is done for now, I need to decide whether the crt are worth taking, half don’t have chassis.

Overall, plan is to repair what we want to keep, so the 2xBally, Taito. I’d like to convert the Atari back, without going mad for original parts etc.

The generic Eurogame cabs - Jo will fix up and sell, there’s always a market for those here.
There is one generic cab with odd tiger side-art but nothing else I’ll probably stick an LCD and pi-mame in.

There is a nice Apple-Time cab, dint remember if it has CRT or not, that’ll be a nice hobby cab as well.

So, voila - that’s the latest for now.

 

[Alpha1]

Nice work!

 

[jengineer]

Awesome, love to see some pics when you get the time to take some

Well done fella

 

[ocb]

Some photo on dropbox...

(forgive me if this doesn't work - my first attempt at dropbox. Looking forward to the day we can drag/drop photos on here!)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xhh8qexd4m1ehk1/AADUONjbXYlApdGL4RWhhSb8a?dl=0

 

[ocb]

The Zaccaria is in a sorry state, but considering what it's been through (water running onto it from leaking roof, not Peter, before him) - it's still hanging in there.

Comment from my ZZZ-loving mate was "this one will take some restoring....".

It has mildew on the inside, a chunk out one corner - but the wood isn't rotten through, so I'll be looking for some advice on the "restoration" side of things. I guess a good dose of eco-unfriendly "something" etc.

I suspect Jo will want to keep that one - it'll take a fair amount of work, which he'll never recover financially..so I think that one's a "keeper" for him!

 

[ocb]

Some questions:
1. NOS and boxed Dell PC CRTs...yes or no?

I'm thinking we can do "something" with them with the cabs that are without screens. Better a PC CRT than a TFT, no? Will have to be creative with screen bezels etc, but hey...this was always a "commercial" rescue mission, not an arcade museum run....(ok, except for the Bally Continentals etc)

2. Back doors and other bulky low value stuff etc. Take them or not?

My reaction is take the back doors. I can probably stuff them in my garden shed if nothing else.

Other "next to useless" stuff that could come in useful?

3. Shelving. I'd love to take the shelving, but it's *huge*....but at the same time, the storage my mate Jo has scored is part of an ex car salesroom/workshop - mostly now subdivided by "parking space" that folks have stuck chipboard into to secure their space.

4. If anyone sees anything in the photos they want, and it's not already spoken for - let me know! I have a van coming over from the UK soon, so taking stuff back will be no-brainer.

 

[tin]

Dell CRTS definitely emphatically yes.

Back doors I'd say yes if you have somewhere to fit them. Including the sticks in this? I'd definitely take that.

Shelving, unless it's impossible always take it. You can never have too much shelving, and frankly it will sell on quite well.

 

[ocb]

Thanks all

I've only ever been in this hobby for fun, so this sudden "kicking up a gear" is a bit bleedin frightening TBH.

CRTs - they are my biggest concern. The standard 19" Hanty, and boxed up Hanty chassis etc will be taken care of by me or the next to get into the warehouse. The "big stuff", 28", Philips etc - most of them don't have chassis. Just let them get binned?

 

[ocb]

Taito Stratovox looks surprisingly original.
I say surprising as Peter apparently had a whole bunch of Taito cabs, taken away by Dutch/German collectors..but they left that one.

 

[Flinnster]

Nice work. That Taito is probably the standout for me too on the photos. Any idea of pcbs in the stash?
(I spy MVS 1 & 2/4 slots, and some others in large metal cages - driver bases or something? Some boards that have vertical spinner adaptor boards on the jamma edges too)

You have some yellow & green SNK/Data East Rotary Sticks on the shelves in a CP - I would be interested in those

I guess it's often the case that the very thing you leave behind (a backdoor or a tube with no chassis) will be the exact item someone needs to complete a project a few months later - it always seems to be the way.
Whether to grab will depend on how much space you have, and how much a rack of mouldy wood is going to impact on your life / storage, until someone comes along who needs it!

To echo what others have said though, good job and good saving

Flinnster2018-12-16 03:31:49

 

[ocb]

Another "surprise" is a bare Exidy Circus, converted to a "Crash".
So...if anyone has Circus bits, or want to buy the cab...

...it's too nice to get Mame'd....

I showed Peter a flyer photo of a Circus - it was his last few mins in my office before he got the spanish archer - mixture of pee'd off he hadn't spotted that Circus himself, and a bit happy he's passed his stock over to fellow collectors.

I'll be seeing him over the holidays, if anyone wants to say hello!

ocb2018-12-21 20:11:12

 

[jengineer]

mate that's a superb haul of cabs and parts!!!
you have really good storage as well, even if it's costing a bit to store it all, it's well worth it

well done pal

 

[ocb]

Ok, simply forget the fact a few months have passed. Mainly “my” fault due to work/family etc.
Already posted on the For Sale I’ve picked up a bunch of CRT, and seems the congregation wants I pick up even the bare tubes.

Tonight is the night that the banana boxes got opened though.

F..., it’s as good as when I was a kid at Christmas!
One of the first I spotted was an Atari. I know the boards well, a Super Breakout.
There’s stuff that I don’t know by heart, but look tasty, like maybe a BombJackII, Gyruss, Kung Fu, a bunch of Capcom and Konami I need to research, maybe an original Tut?

Shame it’s so hard to post photos here

 

[ocb]

Ideas?

I thought a Zzz boot of Tron, but I don't see anything they did that would have spinner and pistol grip joystick with "guns and missiles".

 

[tb2000]

Yeah as far as the CRTs goes, don't dump anything, rescue all of them if you can! Let us know what you get and we can take it from there. That zacc controller is a bit unusual, maybe alpha1 or someone will know?

 

[Flinnster]

Please tell me you managed to get those rotary sticks

 

[big10p]

Interesting. The blue stick cover looks the same as the ones Zacc used on Buck Rogers.

 

[ocb]

Cheers, definitely looks like a single Buck Rogers stick, and what’s left of the coloured piping on the CP seems spot on.

I’ll ask Peter if he knows the story behind this one!

 

[ocb]

Reply from Peter is the Op told him it was a spare for Tron.
Which I guess means hellishly fugly one, or possibly a test CP.

 

[ocb]

I know it’s been a while. Again, work, and more importantly - family health meant I had to put this on the back burner.

Anyway, Rastermania’s warehouse is empty, other than a few bare CRT. My instinct is “leave no tube behind”, but most aren’t arcade tubes. At least one the screen surface is deeply scratched. All would need yokes/chassis etc to be useable. I (actually “we” given the weight) did lug away a 34” bare CRT, basically because it seemed such a waste.

Question is, again, do I let the last few bare tubes get skipped or not? Would folks genuinely take a scratched bare CRT, for 40 euro plus the hassle of shipping?

Genuine and pressing question.

I’ve already blown through several months of rent paying for Peter’s warehouse- not his fault I didn’t have time to empty it.