RE: Pics of RB/BZ cabaret

From: Joe <joe_at_joesarcade.com>
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 01:55:34 EST

Mike,
 
The stick that you have is from (or meant for) a Cyber Sled. Probably a
few other games too. If you know someone trashing a Cyber Sled as is so
common, you can probably get one cheap. Those are very nice sticks. The
movement is very smooth.
 
Now if I could find a Tempest mini CP.....
 
JB
 
-----Original Message-----
From: MKDUD@aol.com [mailto:MKDUD@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:43 PM
To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
Subject: VECTOR: Pics of RB/BZ cabaret
 

Several on the list have asked to see this, so here are a few pics:

http://members.aol.com/mkdud/BZ/mkrbbz.jpg
http://members.aol.com/mkdud/BZ/mkrbbz3.jpg
http://members.aol.com/mkdud/BZ/mkrbbz5.jpg

The stick is a Happ model # 95-0179-00. I was lucky able to get it at a
much lower price than the listed $191.95; I think it came to $127 - I
ordered it with a large order (over $1500) that was placed through a
vending company I work for.

I thought the same thing - $127 (!!!) for a Red Baron stick?!! However,
I am AMAZED at how good the stick is. About 127 times better than the
best Atari Red Baron (A036951-01) stick I'd ever seen. The Happ stick is
built like a brick $&!*house, and controls WAY better than the Atari
model. All steel, the pots are killer, and the damn thing is even easy
to work on, though I don't think I'll ever have to fix it.

The conversion to the BZ harness is pretty painless; you just add a few
pins and wires to your BZ AVG and Aux board edge connectors. They are
not used on your BZ board, so you can just use your regular BZ harness,
and it won't affect running BZ at all. Anybody interested in this
coversion, send me an e-mail, I'd be happy to help you do yours.

The CP was a TOTALLY trashed BZ cabaret panel. I had to sandblast the
whole thing; rust was VERY bad and I even had to weld a new hinge to the
panel.

I still have to do something with the CP as far as art goes, perhaps Red
Baron in the Arian letters accross the front edge, like an actual RB
marquise - also maybe the eagle/iron cross logo on the panel to the left
and right of the stick. I still have to do something about a monitor
bezel. I think my wife will do the art -she's good at that stuff...

Thanks,
Michael Kelley

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