RE: Star Trek Sit-Down Finally Restored

On the talk of flaming G08 monitors... has anyone ever actually seen
it happen... ????

I picked up a Star Trek a few years ago (conversion from Asteroids),
and the power supply, the cpu board, and possibly one other board were
toast... but despite being stored in a basement for 10 years, the
monitor works ! I've put 20+ hours on it without a problem... only
thing I did was change the cooling fan for the deflection transistors
as the one that was in there rumbled since the bearings were no doubt
going.

I've fixed a second one for a cockpit I have, and other than troubleshooting
a bit of occasionall horizontal jitter (maybe deflection transistor socket
connections ?), that too works well (that one had a bad customer sega chip
on the deflection board..... wish someone would reverse engineer that damn
thing !).

I have fire extinguishers around, but not near the games.... I've never
yet actually talked to someone who had one go up, or knows of someone
who had one go up....

So... anyone with direct (or indirect) experience ?

-- Curt

>From: "Hendrix, Jeff" <Jeff_Hendrix@maxtor.com>
>To: "'vectorlist@synthcom.com'" <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
>Subject: RE: VECTOR: Star Trek Sit-Down Finally Restored
>Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:41:02 -0700
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>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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