RE: Star Trek Sit-Down Finally Restored

where do you keep the fire extinguisher?
;-)

-jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Tewalt [mailto:tim@srccomp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:52 PM
> To: vectorlist
> Subject: VECTOR: Star Trek Sit-Down Finally Restored
>
>
> I haven't been very active on the list in quite some time,
> but I thought
> I'd boast a little bit anyway in regard to the Star Trek
> sit-down that I
> finally finished restoring.
>
> The most time consuming task was cleaning. The mat had
> layers upon layers
> of dried soda caked on. The cabinet pieces had numberous
> scuff marks that
> had to be buffed out. I used 409 and a Scotchbrite pad to clean, then
> polished out the swirlmarks with Novus.
>
> The most difficult technical repair was tracing back broken
> wires within
> the wire harness; the easiest was the power supply... I didn't bother
> debugging the monitor and simply rebuilt it using new caps
> and some 2N6259's
> in the deflection amp. I had a spare working boardset to
> help debug those.
>
> The final result really took me by surprise! During
> restoration and debug,
> it sat in pieces and stripped of T-Molding. Today at lunch,
> I bolted every-
> thing back togther, installed the monitor panel, bolted on
> the canopy, took
> a step back and WHOA!!!
>
> Still need to figure out how to achieve better monitor
> alignment (blue gun
> only), but I thought it came out quite nice just the same.
>
> I didn't resize the pictures and they are about 350KB each:
>
> http://www.tewalt.net/images/arcade_pics/startrek001.jpg
> http://www.tewalt.net/images/arcade_pics/startrek002.jpg
> http://www.tewalt.net/images/arcade_pics/startrek003.jpg
> http://www.tewalt.net/images/arcade_pics/startrek004.jpg
> http://www.tewalt.net/images/arcade_pics/startrek005.jpg
> http://www.tewalt.net/images/arcade_pics/startrek006.jpg
> http://www.tewalt.net/images/arcade_pics/startrek007.jpg
> http://www.tewalt.net/images/arcade_pics/startrek008.jpg
> http://www.tewalt.net/images/arcade_pics/startrek009.jpg
>
> All that said, Star Trek just isn't my game, so it is for
> sale (located in
> Colorado Springs) if you know of any interested buyers, they
> can email be
> at: drzdad@msn.com
>
> Tim
>
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Received on Thu Jan 30 15:41:06 2003