Re: Star Trek Sit-Down Finally Restored

Did you replace the original +5VDC power supply and upgrade the ground
connections within the game? This will tend to reduce if not eliminate the
fire threat...

I haven't had a SEGA game in here for years, so I have no pictures of the
upgrade, but essentially you want to really make sure the common/ground
connections within the game are very solid!

John :-#)#

At 01:51 PM 30/01/2003 -0700, Tim Tewalt wrote:

>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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Received on Thu Jan 30 17:55:33 2003