The story so far: I got two Missile Storm cabs from the ship, the plan is to make one really good one to keep, and one that works (as far as possible) to go to another home. When I got them one monitor had been necked which is a great shame as the ship cabs had no or little burn from what I've seen.
Pictures of them so far are here:
http://www.system11.org/temp/Arcade/Cabs/Missile%20Storm/index.html
I've stripped both machines so they can be cleaned out and properly assessed, status of the unbroken screen is unknown - the EMI shields on them were so rusty they were dropping particles into the chassis, so that's all had to come apart too. Interesting to note they had different coin doors, and the bezel/marquee art is slightly different on both despite them being otherwise identical.
I've now rebuilt both power supplies - the caps were bulging and weeping and all the rectifier diodes were heavily corroded, one of them had a shorted line filter too which. Both supplies now have all new diodes, caps and line filters and both are putting out close to identical voltages (within 0.1).
Current job is cleaning up all the 'keeper' parts and sorting out the trackballs, both of which were so corroded at the bearings that they've seized. Shafts are not too bad (irreplaceable probably - might look into having some machined), bearings were a standard size so I ordered some last night.
Pictures of them so far are here:
http://www.system11.org/temp/Arcade/Cabs/Missile%20Storm/index.html
I've stripped both machines so they can be cleaned out and properly assessed, status of the unbroken screen is unknown - the EMI shields on them were so rusty they were dropping particles into the chassis, so that's all had to come apart too. Interesting to note they had different coin doors, and the bezel/marquee art is slightly different on both despite them being otherwise identical.
I've now rebuilt both power supplies - the caps were bulging and weeping and all the rectifier diodes were heavily corroded, one of them had a shorted line filter too which. Both supplies now have all new diodes, caps and line filters and both are putting out close to identical voltages (within 0.1).
Current job is cleaning up all the 'keeper' parts and sorting out the trackballs, both of which were so corroded at the bearings that they've seized. Shafts are not too bad (irreplaceable probably - might look into having some machined), bearings were a standard size so I ordered some last night.
