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Astro City Marquee Restore

Posted on 01/12/202101/12/2021 by mR_CaESaR
Astro City Marquee Restore

For those that have a Sega Astro City, knows how dull and lifeless the marquee can look. I came across possibly one of the best Sega Astro City restoration thread on Arcade Projects by FluxChiller who had restored his marquee to a quality that made it look brand new! I Continue Reading

Posted In ArcadeTagged In Astro City, candy cab, restore, Vinyl

Refurbishing Candy Cab Stools

Posted on 01/12/202101/12/2021 by mR_CaESaR
Refurbishing Candy Cab Stools

I purchased some Candy Cab Stools from YAJ since I wanted an additional 4 stools and the Taito ones are just way out of the budget with current pricing. With that in mind, I knew they were going to be in rough shape, but like everything in this hobby, I’m Continue Reading

Posted In ArcadeTagged In candy cab, refurbish, stool

Blast City – sad day

Posted on 30/11/202119/01/2023 by mR_CaESaR
Blast City – sad day

Sad day unfortunately… the tube gets dimmer and dimmer by the dayΒ πŸ™ πŸ™ Here you can see just how dim the tube is compared to my other blast. I had to turn off the light on the top left (tired tube side) as you wouldn’t have been able to see Continue Reading

Posted In Arcade, Blast City, Worklog

Blast City – Rejuvenator

Posted on 26/11/202119/01/2023 by mR_CaESaR
Blast City – Rejuvenator

Got my hands on a CRT tester on Wednesday night to try out thanks to hwaygo on discord – it’s the BK Precision 490 and fortunately for me, it had the correct CR23 connectorΒ πŸ™‚ Never having done any of this stuff before, I watched multiple videos of what we needed Continue Reading

Posted In Arcade, Blast City, Worklog

Blast City – Zap!

Posted on 22/11/202119/01/2023 by mR_CaESaR
Blast City – Zap!

Another update on my wonderful adventures with the Blast City!Β πŸ˜€ πŸ˜€ I ended up getting some repro artwork – mostly for the blast, but a few random bits and bobs The repro blast cp artwork is ok, but not 100% perfect, it will do the job for my purposes Another Continue Reading

Posted In Arcade, Blast City, Worklog

Blast City – Another one!?

Posted on 19/10/202119/01/2023 by mR_CaESaR
Blast City – Another one!?

Because working on two blast cities over the last year with a lot of tears is never enough…. guess what I picked up last night???Β  πŸ˜€ πŸ˜€ Yep! I’m back for one more go! hahaha The Honda HRV is surprisingly large inside! I’ve now done two cab trips with my Continue Reading

Posted In Arcade, Blast City, Worklog

Blast City – convergence strips

Posted on 10/10/202119/01/2023 by mR_CaESaR
Blast City – convergence strips

Spent some time on the public holiday to configure the monitor. Here’s the cross stitch of the monitor before any convergence work.. After about two hours worth of mucking around and me $h**ting myself, this was the best I could do (also ran out of convergence strips) The bottom left Continue Reading

Posted In Arcade, Blast City, Worklog

Blast City – 2931 FUBAR

Posted on 19/09/202119/01/2023 by mR_CaESaR
Blast City – 2931 FUBAR

Joey’s analysis of my 2931 Well turns out mate that it’s the tripler inside the flyback that has failed, it had damaged an SMD IC in the regulation section plus the 5 pin regulator and zener protection diode, H-Drive transistors and vertical IC, this is supposed to shut the chassis Continue Reading

Posted In Arcade, Blast City, Worklog

Blast City – collapse!

Posted on 27/08/202119/01/2023 by mR_CaESaR
Blast City – collapse!

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

Posted In Arcade, Blast City, Worklog

Blast City – wavy corners part 2

Posted on 27/08/202119/01/2023 by mR_CaESaR
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

Posted In Arcade, Blast City, WorklogTagged In Blast City, candy cab, refurbish, worklog

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