Enduro Racer Project - Dorset

[mcbear]

This is fantastic work, loving this thread - and glad the cab ended-up in the hands of a thoroughly decent chap!

 

[blazerfrazer]

This is fantastic work, loving this thread - and glad the cab ended-up in the hands of a thoroughly decent chap!

Thanks man, i try to put up lots of pictures, people love pictures.

 

[Shun]

You are making easy work of this mate. When you have finished with the Enduro Racer, you wouldn't mind popping up to Stafford and restoring my Pole Position would you?

Shun2017-11-16 23:26:32

 

[blazerfrazer]

You are making easy work of this mate. When you have finished with the Enduro Racer, you wouldn't mind popping up to Stafford and restoring my Pole Position would you?

lol no problem!

 

[blazerfrazer]

Some progress today, lots of coats. Satin.

 

[blazerfrazer]

You can see some pitting where the rust got into it, shame but it will still look great when assembled.

 

[blazerfrazer]

Whilst waiting for parts in the post, i got the lower door off.

So how much cash has this taken? i assume its always had a 10p mech so that's £6149 10p

and if it 20p a go then its had 3074 plays. is that lots? or not?

 

[K1ngarth3r]

Nice that theres some coins in there.

It's going to be therapeutic to see that rusty coin door look new again.

 

[iamjimmi]

This has to be one of the most challenging restorations documented on here - and you are making great progress.

I suppose you could use some filler to get rid of the pitting - but you would have to paint again.

Looking good....

 

[dj_yt]

I'm loving this restoration. What an amazing effort. I also spotted that your PCB is working via mark on YouTube.

 

[blazerfrazer]

Update from Retro Clinic -

look what just turned up!

Going to leave them protected until i am ready for them. He sent me a video of it working. such a cool service, kept me posted all the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THpC0sl1Bkc

In the picture I kept the money private, all i can tell you is that he spent two full days on it and it was worth every penny.

Amazing how much he replaced, hopefully its going to work right into the future.

blazerfrazer2017-11-22 17:49:06

 

[blazerfrazer]

 

[dj_yt]

Wow - that is an enormous list of parts. Never seen one that bad before!

 

[blazerfrazer]

Just out of interest.

 

[dj_yt]

Those batteries last forever. It's outlived most of the other TTL logic components on the PCB! I still have Sega boards running on their original batteries from the 80s no problem. dj_yt2017-11-22 18:17:30

 

[blazerfrazer]

Those batteries last forever. It's outlived most of the other TTL logic components on the PCB! I still have Sega boards running on their original batteries from the 80s no problem.

Do you have a spare Enduro racer board? one you can sell?

 

[dj_yt]

I have a spare boardset that is literally cracked in half. That's eBay untested for you.

I'm going to use it to repair an incomplete Space Harrier PCB Jodo gave me with my cab at some point thought.

 

[blazerfrazer]

Dashboard - Finished

You can see where the bolt has been overtightened and squashed the
wood in.

[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Using a ruler with sticky back 240 grit sand paper with a small wedge which i casted from a surviving area of the dash, i was able to sand the original profile back over where the damage was.[/font]

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[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Some Matt black paint and good as new.[/font]

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[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Now the tricky part, it turned out ok but i wish i had thicker ally tape as some of the imperfections showed through.[/font]

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[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Using a blade i run carefully down the edges and removed the unwanted tape.[/font]

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[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Pleased with the results but if anyone knows of any thicker ally tape let me know.[/font]

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[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]More to come soon, just waiting on parts.[/font]

blazerfrazer2017-11-30 13:33:24

 

[blazerfrazer]

Just
a quick reminder of what the dash looked like!

blazerfrazer2017-11-30 12:27:02

 

[Shinydaz]

Coming along nicely, great effort.