Just imagine some nice Ducati red & decals, that would be sweet as a nut. It's not half as bad as I imagined, at least the billboard looks intact, and the game's actually running!
80s liveries on a 1995 game?! You KNOW who you can get Sega parts off ;-) Have you posted on Jamma+? I think there is a bad eBay seller thread there - you might want to post and warn them. Likewise with AO, if they have one.
Yeah, my in-laws used to have a bike dealership and the liveries look like the old 80's bikes they'd get in. Look again at the decals, they are rubbish lol. The decals on most 90's motorbikes were better. Granted, it's a '95 cabinet, but not sure whether someone stuck old stock Honda decals on those things. They'd fit as the bodies are styled on Honda CBR bikes. http://digiads.com.au/motorbikes/us...00F-BIKE-ROAD-FORSALE-DAISY HILL-QLD-4127.htm Actually, more like to be the CBR Fire Blade. http://www.motorcycle-city.com.au/800 size/cbr250rr yellow 800.JPG Andy Geezer has already offered the opportunity if I need Model 2A parts. Not sure whether I should bad mouth the seller - for £100 I didn't expect much and his service was terrible, but it may have put others off buying the item and the unit is really not 'too' bad. Cough!
Thanks to a guy called Grant in Spain (on another site) who diagnosed the monitor faults purely by look at 2 or 3 images of the output, the Manx TT unit now has 2 fully working (one a bit dull) monitors! Now it's a case of waiting until the Hang On and Initial D cabinets are repaired and complete again and I can get around to pulling it apart, cleaning it and respraying the bikes. Nice on Grant! Images to follow
Well done :thumbsup: Try a degauss... if it doesn't solve it, then it could need a cap job. They're pretty big monitors, though, so you need one of the larger degaussing tools. Mine's a big disc.
Currently stripping the entire the cabinet and cleaning it. Bloody long job. I had intended on spending today dealing with Initial D, painting etc but it is buckting it down.
Hmm. Everytime you say you're going to do up an arcade cab, you come back to report you spent the day stripping. I'm beginning to worry :110:
Making money for the art.... ;-) Monitor 1 keeps giving me issues... looks like I'll have to go back to that one later on. So long as it doesn't blow and I know the tube is okay now. It's the neck board. The main top light actually had a new strip light inserted but never connected up (?) so I finished off that job and we had light! That top light weighs a bloody tonne. As you'd expect with a twin cabinet, the PSU is huge and divided into 2 parts. One on either side of the unit. Not got around to looking at the Model 2A boards yet, but they'll be the same as found on the Sega Rally thread images, being that they are both 2A revisions.
I'll get back to monitor one later... In the meantime, we have here what is basically the largest peripheral control device I have ever had to check over. One of the bikes doesn't right itself. It simply flops left or right meaning that the unit will not bounce back upright. This is not only frustrating, but means that steering can only be done by placing feet either side of the bike rather than 'riding' it. I've not as yet grasped the mechanics of these bikes. I've not been able to establish precisely what device or part of the pivoting section is responsible for righting the bike, there is no large spring that I can see. Going between the 2 bikes I cannot see anything immediately that stands out as being any different. Does anyone have any experience with this particular issue? In these images, all I have done is remove the 2 side covers, and also a top plate which houses the two blue sections so you can see the whole mechanism more clearly.
Impossible to tell just looking at it but I can only guess that there is a horizontal spring running along or in the 'axel' or where the axel meets the black shroud at the top there is a belt or a spring inside which pulls the top most wheel. What are the yellow caps for? For oil? Hydraulic fluid? Those blue braces might work on a hermitically sealed pressure system. Just my 2p.
IIRC there are some rubber blocks which act as centering springs. The centering mech should operate with a motor. The motor has an encoder wheel on it (a bit like mice or printers). If the motor becomes disengaged from the gears, the encoder needs resetting. As you will find in printer service manuals, there are warnings about how easy it is to damage this encoder wheel! These parts should be illustrated in the manual - Sega are usually good with that sort of thing. The cab was actually made by Deith Leisure, you could always speak to them. They might even repair it for you. *EDIT* The stopper is that grey thing next to the blue things, and the yellow block under it (which looks like that material they use for stoppers that inevitably wears in moving-part machines e.g. steering mechs).
Funnily enough I read through the service manual and although all parts are shown as technical drawings, this part still confuses me lol. Normally I can look at a tech drawing and grasp how something should work, but I know nothing of either hydraulics or self righting mechs - why would I? The Deluxe cabinet is mentioned (someone posted information on it on another site), but the 2 mechanisms are different. The principal should remain the same, but the parts are very different so although a procedure is provided to tighten up a series of bolts on the DX cab, those parts are not found on the twin cabinet. I can see the motor attached up the top and there should be some kind of break. That'll be that large angled piece of metal on top of the rubber shoe you mentioned. All of that aside, I don't have an Allen key that size lol - it's huge! h: Deith might deal with it... it's actually 'relatively' close to me as it's based in the Scottish borders.
The main unit was a bit rusty. There is a metal plate on the top of the unit that despite removing screws wouldn't budge, so it couldn't be spray painted. Careful brushing instead.
