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It’s not often that you are offered anything for free, yet alone an arcade cabinet, so when Troy offered a Sega Astro City for free, I was stoked. The only catch was that it was empty and needed some TLC in certain areas. I would like to share with you the restoration process of this machine, and share some of the knowledge I have learnt along the way.
Having already owned one of these cabs has made the restoration process a lot easier than starting from scratch. Here are some pics of what the cab looked like when I first got it…
http://www.cowboyberty.com/Astro/image001.jpg
http://www.cowboyberty.com/Astro/image009.jpg
This is a picture of the cab as it arrived, although I had been too eager to get to dismantling it so I missed out on taking any pics when it was fully assembled. At this point in time I had done a lot of cleaning to the cab to inspect the condition of the paintwork and body. What I was most happy about was that the wiring in the cab was for the most part left untouched. Acquiring JST terminals is no hassle, but Tyco/Amp stuff is a real pain for me to track down in low quantities.
The cabinet is and will remain 100V as all of the wiring including AC line filters etc was all still in place. All doors and locks work also, coin mechanism and coin counters were also left in place, which is a real relief as the Sega Naomi will refuse to accept coin input unless a coin counter is present. What was a real surprise though was that there was a ticket machine installed in the cab. The installation looks like a factory job also, Troy also tells me that thi is how it came from Sega of Japan.
http://www.cowboyberty.com/Astro/image004.jpg
Here is the ticket machine, quite an oddity. If anyone has anymore info on these then that would be of great help. The machine is “Yennox” brand and the large black piece is a feeder mechanism for the machine. All the wiring is there, although I’m not sure what does what yet.
http://www.cowboyberty.com/Astro/image007.jpg
This is probably going to be the most annoying part of the resto. The Bose speaker cone had been lifted some punk, and the speaker grill was also pinched. There is also the standard yellowing of the surrounding plastic, but nothing a bit of specialised painting wont fix. For some reason, Sega loved this white plastic and used it on a lot of their stuff, including the Sega Saturn. A lot of speculation surrounds why the stuff goes yellow, but it most likely comes down to UV exposure as well as cigarette smoke. My other Astro has the exact same yellowing on this area and to tell you the truth I am not that fussed about it, but I will get around to fixing it soon. (The Canadian Club in the background is to help with the resto process).
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