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
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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 – 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
Blast City – Flaking
I hit a snag the other night I started cleaning the second cab and as I gave it a good wipe down, the paint just started flaking off, and it got worse and worse as I cleaned more.. The initial thoughts were “touch up”, but what started like this… Ended Continue Reading