Purchased a can of PCB Lacquer to tighten the windings up and used up almost 1/2 the can – she was pretty secured! After the initial test, there was no change to the wobble, so the last ditch effort was to impregnate the yoke with silicone. There was no way Continue Reading
Blast City
Blast City – wavy corners part 2
A lot of trial and error on the weekend but still haven’t gotten to the bottom of it unfortunately I tried plugging in the vga (31khz) to my naomi universal and I didn’t get any wavy corners. Monitor is powered via the blast city, everything else is on the naomi Continue Reading
Blast City – wavy corners part 1
The universe just doesn’t want me to love the blast city! Backstory: The blast city had some “buzzing” that got louder as time went on. After reading a thread on AP, it pointed to some stuff inside the yoke and would need “cleaning” but to do so would mean removing Continue Reading
Blast City – Recap
So the feedback I got from a few people was to “recap” the PSU and it “should” fix my issue with the Sega I/O TL;DR – I’m exactly in the same situation as I was prior to the recap Blast PSU Recap Adventure After getting my cap kits from Arcade Parts Continue Reading
Blast City – Final stages
Into the final stages of this project. It took a couple of attempts, but I’ve come to the conclusion when I use a NetDimm on the Blast City PSU, I can’t use it on a single PSU. I’ve been told to do a re-cap on the PSU which “should” fix Continue Reading
Blast City – Pushed through
Push through last night and installed the cp and 3 button harness just to get going! Happy to report everything is working properly! Here’s a quick test run with DDP DOJ on IGS PGM One issue I have (and a lot of blast city owners) is corner convergence. Not much Continue Reading
Blast City – It’s alive!
This weekend that just passed, I set myself the goal of “just getting the shell screwed in to the base” as the shells had “dried*” *more on that later. The wiring deceivingly took WAAAAY longer than I expected as I decided I would take out all the old clips and Continue Reading
Blast City – Hiatus
Wow, it’s been 4 months since I last updated! I haven’t really had much motivation to finish it off, I had one cab in its place with the rest of the cabs which made me really delay the finishing of the other cab. With that said, I recently sold off Continue Reading
Blast City – Speaker Replacement
Not much has been happening, we’ve had terrible weather the last few weeks and I just cbf atm.. lol The only thing I’ve worked on are the speakers. I purchased these speakers online https://www.parts-express.com/aurasound-ns2x3-184-4a-2-x-3-extended-range-driver-4-ohm–296-256 They are slightly bigger than the original stock speaker, but it’s the closest thing I can find Continue Reading
Blast City – Prepping for primer
Managed to get some a few hours worth of work on the weekend. First had to spray the decal residue with some IPA The next 3 hours were spent on hand sanding/feathering on all the areas that had flaking. Gave it a good clean with wax and grease remover before Continue Reading