lol I mean sort of crap..Hey Nam 1975 and Magician Lord are bloody classics!
SNK MVS U4
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jerryspaghetti
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You know what you said...
A bit more progress yesterday, forgive the micro updates but it keeps me interested/ motivated.
Job List
- Discharge tube and remove chassis
- Sort out sized screws on control panel
- separate base plate from main body
- remove internal metalwork.
Working any cab like this is fun, although this U4 is a cruel mistress as everything reveals another problem. Not only were there no keys, some idiot has jammed a screwdriver into the front door to force it open bending both the door and the body of the cab.. Possibly the same idiot has tried to force the control panel as well, bending the locking tang (the other one is missing). Anyway enough complaining..
TOEI Chassis:
With some trepidation I managed to discharge the tube properly, removing the chassis was no problem. I had a quick chat with Grant, i'll wrap it up and send it and the PSU for service. I have a spare chassis, but it would be great if this can be repaired.. 😬
Control panel.
Next job was to sort out the shelf that the control panel sits on. Over the weekend I couldn't get any of the screws to budge so I let them soak in WD-40 overnight, came back yesterday and ... they still wouldn't move 😥 No problem, one of the lessons I learnt from my Lindbergh was to invest in a decent pair of gripping pliers - so I could get the screws moving and finally the control panel relented.
I also removed all of the screws holding the base to the body, which was exhausting as about 50% them needed to be turned out with the pliers.
Lastly I my son and I did some refurb work on the coins we found. With a combination of lemon juice, baking powder and a lot of scrubbing they came out pretty well.
Job List
- Discharge tube and remove chassis
- Sort out sized screws on control panel
- separate base plate from main body
- remove internal metalwork.
Working any cab like this is fun, although this U4 is a cruel mistress as everything reveals another problem. Not only were there no keys, some idiot has jammed a screwdriver into the front door to force it open bending both the door and the body of the cab.. Possibly the same idiot has tried to force the control panel as well, bending the locking tang (the other one is missing). Anyway enough complaining..
TOEI Chassis:
With some trepidation I managed to discharge the tube properly, removing the chassis was no problem. I had a quick chat with Grant, i'll wrap it up and send it and the PSU for service. I have a spare chassis, but it would be great if this can be repaired.. 😬
Control panel.
Next job was to sort out the shelf that the control panel sits on. Over the weekend I couldn't get any of the screws to budge so I let them soak in WD-40 overnight, came back yesterday and ... they still wouldn't move 😥 No problem, one of the lessons I learnt from my Lindbergh was to invest in a decent pair of gripping pliers - so I could get the screws moving and finally the control panel relented.
I also removed all of the screws holding the base to the body, which was exhausting as about 50% them needed to be turned out with the pliers.
Lastly I my son and I did some refurb work on the coins we found. With a combination of lemon juice, baking powder and a lot of scrubbing they came out pretty well.
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jerryspaghetti
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Lovely stuff, I must invest in a pair of gripping pliers!!!
Really nice that your boy is involved too!
Really nice that your boy is involved too!
Those Engineer pliers are great I have a full set (5) & mini nippers they are about £20 each.
Best of all they are Made in Japan, I have some Vessel (JIS) & Anex tools too.
Better to use JIS (Japanese industrial standard) on what you may think are Phillips screws but get rounded off & you thinking why.
Best of all they are Made in Japan, I have some Vessel (JIS) & Anex tools too.
Better to use JIS (Japanese industrial standard) on what you may think are Phillips screws but get rounded off & you thinking why.
That is not my car
Retroman839
Senior Member
Love the coins find 👍,,,
Non budging screws is one of the worst and most common issues !
Retroman839
Senior Member
Guy round corner to me has
Powder coating that would come back mint
Continue the great work
Flyback2021
Active member
Great work mate, will all be worth it no doubt and nice to know a cab inside and out !
Lovely father son project and will be a memory for you both - may even make an arcade collector out of him one day.
Def have a retro gamer son also , we need a future generation to love and look after these things too .
Lovely father son project and will be a memory for you both - may even make an arcade collector out of him one day.
Def have a retro gamer son also , we need a future generation to love and look after these things too .
Too many updates ?
Anyway, spent a couple of hours today removing the foot rest and the adhesive underneath and scrubbing the whole cabinet down.
I also removed the rivets holding in the serial number plaque and kick plate
This was how the cab started off today, better but wasn’t happy with it.
The rubber foot rest is (like everything else) knackered, but looks like it will be easy to replace.
Had to scrape off the adhesive with a plastic ‘spudger’ as I believe it’s called 🤢
From there I blasted the cab with simple green and a brush head for my drill, after a couple of passes it was looking pretty good.
Finally removed the serial plaque. Wonder how I can fix the faded text here.
Anyway, spent a couple of hours today removing the foot rest and the adhesive underneath and scrubbing the whole cabinet down.
I also removed the rivets holding in the serial number plaque and kick plate
This was how the cab started off today, better but wasn’t happy with it.
The rubber foot rest is (like everything else) knackered, but looks like it will be easy to replace.
Had to scrape off the adhesive with a plastic ‘spudger’ as I believe it’s called 🤢
From there I blasted the cab with simple green and a brush head for my drill, after a couple of passes it was looking pretty good.
Finally removed the serial plaque. Wonder how I can fix the faded text here.
ChrisBEANS
Active member
Nope!! Keep ‘em coming!
Retroman839
Senior Member
Fine black paint pen
0.8 black gloss paint pen
Very quick update, as my original TOEI chassis and SNK psu have been repaired (Thanks Grant). I've spent the last couple of evenings cleaning the Toshiba tube in preparation. I used a paintbrush to gently knock off all the dust and then simple green to carefully clean the tube.
It's looking much better, although it need to do another pass with some compressed air to make sure its really clean.
It's looking much better, although it need to do another pass with some compressed air to make sure its really clean.
Retroman839
Senior Member
Carefull on the paper labels
They disolve very easily