Monday 28 January 2013

Pole Position Before and After...Work In Progress


I got the cab from Phil's arcade clearance thread over on the UKVAC forums, It came in a pretty bad state, ( As I had already seen from the photos) missing Gameboard, Dead monitor and FFFFilthy to say the least.

I have currently misplaced a whole SD card full of photos, so there's not really a lot of in progress shots of the cab being stripped and cleaned, when I find it I will update the article.

Here's the photo's from the original post, as you can see the cab it pretty dirty, Its had a switcher installed at some point along with some good butchery on the loom, The rear wooden panel that holds 2nd ARII in place was broken. No Game board Present, but I could see the potential :)

Front view missing monitor at the time

Broken cabinet, Switcher, bird Crap and an old sandwich

Only real  damage to the cab is the bottom left corner as shown in photo

Power brick covered in 25 years of Arcade dust.
What I've done; well both ARII's have been rebuilt with new Caps and regulators, both had blown R29/30 usually due to poor edge connector connections, the power brick had the works too, with  a complete strip down and rebuild. Fuse holder, fuses, big blue and a coat of paint to tidy thing up. See photo below of the finished brick.


Here's some photos of the cab with all of the loom been cleaned and refitted. As you can see, the back panel still needed to be replaced at the time of these photos. But It now look a damn site better.



I'll be the first to admit that I'm no carpenter, but my attempt at remaking the wooden back panel didn't come out too bad. I made it from some old Ply wood that I had and coated in in black emulsion paint. I should have black vinyl, I might do this once other parts of the cab a completed.


Everything fixed in place

So next up for the cab is to sort the edge connectors out as they're both badly worn out. Here's what I currently have...


Worn out with the Power and Ground having been chopped off

Hopefully I'll have more updates in the next few weeks.

Cheers, Mart.

Wednesday 16 January 2013

Atari Power Brick rebuilds


Part of the process of improving the reliability of my Atari cabs was to do rebuilds on the power bricks. The Pole Position brick was filthy and had been badly repaired, bypassing the original burnt out fuse holder. The final photo shows an after shot of all the rebuilt power bricks. Much better! and hopefully I've added to the future reliability of the cabs.


Atari Asteroids Power Brick
Asteroids before.
Atari Batttle Zone Power Brick
Battle Zone before.

Atari Centipede Power Brick
Centipede before.

Atari Missile Command Power Brick
Missile Command before.


Atari Pole Position Power Brick
Pole Position before. This Power Brick was filthy!
The end result, after being stripped down, cleaned, painted, having new fuse holders and crimps.


 Regards, Mart.

Saturday 12 January 2013

My Arcade Shed, Outhouse and Garage

I've added three new pages under the projects section on the right hand side ----> which show a small selection of photos from my past and present home arcades. A couple of the photos are below.

1997-2006 Arcade
2007-2010 Outrun in the Arcade

2011-Present Arcade



Tuesday 8 January 2013

Welcome to Jumpnfire.com

Post #1 08/01/2013 20:15 

New blog on line with hopefully continuing updates about my arcade collecting and all my other geeky projects!

Still have loads to do to get the site as I want it. Graphics/Colour scheme layout etc.

Regards, Mart.

Photo of me. Martin Lawes