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1.21 Gigawatts

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  1. Welcome @Papabergsy there’s quite a few Candy cab owners on the forum. Some are more active than others but many you’ll find in the thread:
  2. A cool project @Dters . Hopefully you can save it and get it going. Keep us up to date.
  3. I saw this on the Highway Pinball site. Pretty rare find for the keen tinkerer. https://www.highway.net.au/arcade-parts/pinball-spare-parts/williams-bally-pinball-machine-test-bench/19510-1.html
  4. Yeah I’m hoping it was someone with a bit of knowledge who haggled them down under $2k.
  5. It’s listed as sold now. Hopefully it came into the AA fold. I hope the buyer got a good original tube and chassis.
  6. Keep up the good work. It’s a mission for sure but you’ll get there and have a lot of fun.
  7. Congratulations Furbui37 😊 Amazing to think of the history of it. Someone bought that off the lot one day. Took it home, drove to work, raised a family, and on it goes. Lots of cruising fun ahead.
  8. Price drop to $45 posted. Just wanting to clear stuff I’m not using.
  9. The sounds for what I’m guessing are voices are all garbled. Everything else seems okay. There’s a few sparkles in the picture but I think that’s my power supply warming up. I can send you a video if you request it. $45 posted. PayPal or bank deposit.
  10. The chassis is like new and the tube works, but in my quick test I could only get a picture with some interference. It needs a degauss obviously. I’m basically giving the tube away free with the chassis. These items were sold to me as working in another arcade cabinet about a year ago, but I’ve pulled them out and replaced them with something else. No shipping on the tube sorry. If you just want the tube only it’s free. The tube is a Videocolor 28” - I’m guessing from a TV. Pickup Orange NSW. I’ll post the chassis of course. With postage $55.
  11. I’ll take it if it’s still for sale @kimbleseven
  12. Update to Bankstown Aerodrome Entertainment Park. Current listing gone. New lineup is: Rush Pro Star Wars Pro Avengers Pro TMNT Premium Junkyard. New find at Bankstown. Replay Amusement Bar. Little Saigon Plaza. 1 Chapel Road Roadshow Twilight Zone Addams Family Star Trek TNG Doctor Who Data East Batman
  13. I feel your pain @Fritz I’ve been waiting months for Infocus Select to repair my PB-7534 chassis from my Windy II that worked perfectly for a few days after I got the machine and then died. Steve is slow as a wet week but when I call him and hassle him he gives me hope and says he has some spare parts. The previous owner had 14 years of trouble-free play on it so it was a real bummer. I have a spare 2931 chassis for my Blast that I’ve never tested. I finally build up the courage to put it in the Windy II which uses the same tube. I spent time working out how to, and making a few adaptors and bought the rest. Plugged it all in. No picture. There’s a bit of a loud electrical pop on the chassis when I turn it on too - but I’m not sure if this is because the back panel of the machine is off and that’s a noise that is normally muffled. I have neck glow and static in the tube but no crackle on discharge. I’m not sure that’s abnormal though. I read somewhere newer chassis/tube combos discharge themselves. Can’t confirm though. I can hear the chassis auto switching resolutions too - when I change resolutions on my Jamma testing PCB. I didn’t even think to turn up the dial on the flyback though in case the raster was not visible. Some hope remains. I don’t know if I have the guts to test it again though on the Blast this time after seeing that necked tube.
  14. Thanks @Andyj965 on a related note, I was able to source an original marquee and marquee holder but those measurements you got for me helped out to make a temporary one for my other Exceleena. 🙏🏼 Thanks @mR_CaESaR and @namastepat you guys have been a big inspiration in my Candy journey as well. I’d like to think that one day a bunch of us can get together and get say, a bank of 10 cabs at something like a Pinfest or similar.
  15. Hey all. Some of you followed my restoration thread on Arcade Projects but I just want to share a few pics of the finished product here. This thread got me into Candy Cabs in the first place and I’m grateful for the local support I got to finish the machine. Thanks to @djsheep Candy Cab Club for some bits and pieces, @nidulans for some hard to get parts, @xb74 CQB Arcade store for many parts, @Highway Entertainment for the tube and chassis, Bills Transport and probably a couple of people I’m forgetting. This restore took about 120 hours and $1500-$2000 including full powdercoating, transport, tube and chassis, lots of parts, cleaning products etc. It’s really interesting to see where Namco saved money on this cabinet but also where they spent money - hence its rock-solid metal frame, fibreglass panels and decent monitor. The cabinet frame and fibreglass is quite impressive compared to other Candy Cabs of the era and wasn’t improved upon IMO until they went to steel cabinets with the Noir/Vewlix/Lindbergh machines.
  16. You’ve done well there. I’ll keep an eye on the thread. Will be great when it’s all done.
  17. I’m dreaming of a bigger space too. I don’t know what a good 10x8 shed/studio build costs these days, but at least it’s an investment.
  18. Nice one @nich2pat Life has certainly changed since the Maroubra days. Onwards and upwards!
  19. Oh I’m following now. There’s no old 4*3 bezel.
  20. I hope it at least made the lockdowns easier @George G one last question. So was that Initial D cab CRT originally? I can’t work out how a curved LCD would fit flush against the bezel. Nicely done in any case.
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