Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => 'Business' Area : Buy/Sell/Trade => Topic started by: level42 on June 22, 2013, 11:52:00 PM
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Looking for a screw (1) for an Atari Big Blue........badly.....
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What is special about it?
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Take a guess.......Atari......American company.........what ancient totally impossible to understand size system do they have there, the last country on earth to use that system......?
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am i right in assuming that the missing screw is exactly like the one on the left? how long is that one?
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I think it does not matter if it looks the same, i think that for Andre the threats need to be correct and that the head does not matter.
the longer the better, cutting it off is not a problem.
or i could deliver you this, and you can fit a m4 screw... ;D
(http://imageserver.grainger.com/is/image/Grainger/15J611_AW01?$productdetail$)
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Andrè - i think i have these screws - let me look in my storage (cellar) :)
I have it not original but i found a company in US which made exactly like these....
keep in touch...
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That's great Alex, thanks.
The screw is only a few mm. long like 5 or so I guess.
Not sure if it would be possible to tap a metric size into an imperial size tapped hole ? I don't want to risk to damage the Big Blue so I'd prefer to keep it standard if possible.
My hope is on Alex now :)
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They dont call me macgyver for nothing ! ;D
heck , i think a "zelftapper" would even do the trick, you just need a few terminals right ?
(http://www.klusidee.nl/Forum/userpix/2464_images_25.jpg)
the terminal looks aluminium, and not hard steel, so i guess you can drive this in easy ::)
but if you can find an Original screw, that is ofcourse better :D
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Thing is, it has to hold down four of those clamp terminals so any space between the head of the screw and them would be pretty disastrous.....
One more interesting bit: There was something interesting about this power brick that I didn't realize right away. I plugged it in and it worked. Normally this. wouldn't be the case without connecting a proper harness and activating the power switch and backdoor switch.
These are connected normally to a molex connector but on this one there was a plug with two jumpers to bypass this. It definitly looks factory, neatly used one white and one black wire.
So...this made me wonder if this brick had been in any cab ever at all, or maybe it was a workbench u it from the start. The almost like new condition was another indication for this.
So I asked the seller and he confirmed that all the stuff he was selling indeed came from a former workshop doing arcade repairs :) That also explains the removed Big Blue I guess....
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That's great Alex, thanks.
The screw is only a few mm. long like 5 or so I guess.
Not sure if it would be possible to tap a metric size into an imperial size tapped hole ? I don't want to risk to damage the Big Blue so I'd prefer to keep it standard if possible.
My hope is on Alex now :)
UPPPS....Sorry Andrè - i think i was wrong, i thought the screws would be longer - please see the pics - my screws are around 18 mm long (#10 x 3/4") but the head is the same....
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Too bad.....and it's the wrong thread for sure too...
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How urgently do you need it? It should be something readily available here in the U.S. (plus I need to pick up some screws myself).
BTW, no luck yet finding the box with the Asahi Seiko parts :( I'll keep my eyes out.
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Not urgent.
If someone could pup one or two in an tiny padded envelope from the US I'm one happy man :)