Afterburner

[t-m]

Martin delivered this the other week, you might recognise it

Anyway, the cabs not in to bad shape which is good because me doing lots of woodwork would be a disaster.

There's some wiring messed about with but mainly seems to be in the coin mech area, needs working out and tidying.

Lots of dust but it's all there

I'm thinking that I want to get it working then workout the cosmetics. First job get the monitor fixed; While this would be a good time to learn about monitor repair but in the interests of speed it's being sent off to be fixed.

 

[Guests]

Its too awesome mate, I cant wait to restore mine....

 

[niknak]

Looking Forward to this

 

[Alpha1]

Yeah I am looking forward to this too

 

[frothmeister]

And me

 

[t-m]

OK so I had the night off so could spend a bit of time on it. First, start with an easy win - I'd removed a lock on another cab as it was the wrong size but it was perfect for the back door of this.

Had a look at the yoke, a bit of wire hackery here but not too bad. I'll unwind the tape at some point and check/tidy it. One thing that needs checking is the earthing, seems to have been cut in a couple of places and rewired at some point.

But, eww! the rubber bump stop on one side has degraded into a sticky mess.

Will have to clean this up and find/make some replacement here, i have plans!

Unravelled all that bodged wiring near the coin mech, just seems that someone has patched in a new mech and credit board at some point, then later extended the wires to the service switch. This will all tidy up, there's loads of useless wire and the counter is disconnected.

Time to pull the transformer and related bits, all nicely on molex connectors ... except for the earth bonding and half the connections on this +5v bus bar for some reason. I also spotted the earth bonding didn't extend to the switcher case, or the monitor frame for that matter.

And here it is, it needs cleaning up and checking over. There's lots of stuff going on here, the switcher is +5v only for the PCB. A 12v psu hangs off the transformer for the audio amp which is also on here. A bridge rectifier and cap power the shaker motor and three relay boards switch the lamps and motor.

The chassis has already been sent off ... more on that later.

 

[t-m]

and the monitor chassis is back...

OK, the eagle eyed among you will notice that it's not the same chassis as before. Turned out that was a mtc9110 for a 28" tube! Thanks to gunblade for sorting this out.

Once i've finished cleaning up the power brick and fixed the grounds I can power this thing up

 

[niknak]

Wow! no wonder it didn't work.

 

[t-m]

Much time passes... many shiny things have been distracting me! But it's time to give the Afterburner some attention, after all it's repaired pcb has been sat in a box for months!

Lets fire it up ...

Woohoo! She lives! ... can't play it though as i've pulled the CP to bits

. Get on with cleaning that up and back together so I can at least have a go. Start with the control handle, get it cleaned up and resprayed.

 

[LAZORIAN]

Great to see a restore thread from you Will. Have fun & good luck getting it nicely working

 

[t-m]

Never let it be said I rush things!

Finally installed the newly repainted control handle and new goose neck trim. New stainless bolts for the instruction card, handle, etc. I replaced the standard lamps with LED bulbs, they seem to work fine.

Next job, tidy up the bezel.