Atari Centipede Restoration

[bencao74]

Hey,

 I`ve bougth the Centipede from Psykick and arcadegamegeek

https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=4727



Start was

- no marquee, no light
- PCB unknown
- CRT unknown, but neck lights up
- Game controls complete, but mechanics bad
- CPO Artwork and sidearts great
- PCB set complete
- Chassis unknown
- Cab wooden side damaged
- T-Molding ok

Not an easy start. But I had in my stock a hopefully working PCB and some Atari spares. So why not, I thougth myself.

Cebulba brougth me this cab to my home from EUcade, Thanks for this! Awesome action!











It looked like this when the cab arrived.



more post to follow.

[Q*ris]

Since I got mine from container #3, I can't stop playing it.
You will have fun with it, good luck on the resto.

[Tyrem]

Since I got mine from container #3, I can't stop playing it.
You will have fun with it, good luck on the resto.

damn... i need one, too.

[slowcade]

Nice! I'm looking forward to following this. 

[bencao74]

Finally I got a new marquee.







 First I did some measuring and the PCB had no stable 5V. So I took a closer look at the ARII Board. Replaced LM305 and Q3 part 2N3055. Did the sense mod as well. After that voltage was okay again.

PCB didn't boot up. So I replcaed the PCB by a spare one I had in my storage.






Ended in this. The configuration of tube was messed up.

Pics of all connector between Cab, Chassis and Tube can be found here.

http://bencao74.blogspot.de/2013/11/atari-centipede-restoration-part-2.html

Measured the caps, replaced them, when needed. I`ve used one of this cap meters.

Next step the control panel.






Ok, I`ve to replace rollers and bearings. Neanwhile I did some cleaning.





Further the harness to the marquee light and speaker was simply cut



I just fixed this.



to find out that the bulb does not work.

[bencao74]

And the next bunch of pics.

- Trackball plus replacement of roller and bearings







New Button in red. I`d no one in white left.


 I`ve used a led stripe for marquee bulb replacement








Finally it was a very short restoration because Centipede is one of my all time fav and I collected some spares in advance. It`s not a 100% restoration, because I left out the wood work which can be done later. So time for the game.



And Highscore with very first game, 59K points. At 60K is a bonus life.

[smarty]

Nice work  Those old rollers looked well used!

Centipede is one of my Fav games, I've got a cabaret, but would like a full size upright one day.