Don't know if i have to put this question in the business area or not, because it is a question.

Because of moving house soon my brother has no more room for his outrun deluxe cabinet, so he needs to sell it and ask me if i know someone who wants it.
As i have no clue what today's prices are for these things i post this question here. As life got in the way i haven't been in this hobby for a few years now.

what is a fair price today for a working Outrun Deluxe Cabinet?

Can somebody tell me how to safely store pcb's? Just red a topic on UK-Vac today where someone on ebay is selling around 120 pcb and the remarks from the members there are that the person selling those pcb has done a poor job in safely storing the pcb.

UK-Vac topic link:

http://www.ukvac.com/forum/some-pcbs_topic335223_page1.html

Ebay link:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120-original-jamma-boards-ex-operators-collection-some-very-rare-jamma-cab-inc-/221286288913?hash=item3385b0ce11#ht_1879wt_1141

Now i have bought around 100 pcb's myself a while agoo and i stored them the same way! Not good it seems. Bubblewrap plastic is wrong?

Since i played an outrun standard sitdown at the local carnival in the eighties i wished i could own a outrun cab myself oneday, so when i started this nice hobby i always looked out for one on marktplaats. A few upright cabs came along but i was always outbid. But luckily one ad was placed not on marktplaats but on speurders.nl and by chance i looked there at the right time (normally i don't look there).

The operator of the arcade hall of ponypark Slagharen (a nice themepark in the Netherlands) was selling his last three outrun deluxe sitdown cabs (he had five). Although it's a huge cab i had to have it, so emailed him asking what he wanted for it and after some negotiation it was a deal for all three of them  

Because of their size i had to make room in my little garage to fit 2 of them at most, so it took a few weeks to clear the room. Then came the first disappointment. The three cabs where in working order when the seller had put them away he said, but when my brother went looking at his place one of them wasn't moving and had a troubled monitor wich gave a good picture after turning some pods at the monitor.
I wanted them badly so didn't make a great fuss about it only asked nicely if the seller could fix it (maybe just some loose wires or dipswitch setting i hoped), which he didn't want to because he was selling them and didn't want to put time in them anymore (understandable) The price didn't change although one wasn't moving.

Also because of their size i asked the seller if he could bring them to me for around 200 euro extra which he first thought was reasenable but would think about it. When he brought them it turned out to be 320 euro  
(I knew this before he brought them to me, so i accepted the price which was still good in my opinion)

Now that i had them at home i could check them myself and started the cabs. The first moved at startup which it is suposed to do and the game start up, nice, me happy.   (still it has it's problems, will talk about that later)

The second one didn't and gave a motor error, also the screen wasn't readable (color garbage) for a few moments (when it displays the error message).
But luckily the game started up although the colors were all wrong (a blue ferrari instead of a red one)



The third one which my brother has is working as far as i know now with sometimes a strange sound when moving, just as if it is knocking against something. Have to look into that later.



After further inspection of the cabs the most important problem is the stearing unit. (just like everybody else) In the first cab gear b is missing with a piece of metal where the left spring suposed to grab onto (above gear c) . Also no springs. Instead of gear b it has some sort of red rubber belt

Does someone know what this was used for?
Is it complete or is it missing pieces?











Placeholder for the ps2

Sorry i know it has nothing to do with arcade etc. but didn't know where else i could ask it (klov has a slot forum but i can't post there, although i have registered there) and because i think there are members here who not only have arcade or pinball machines but also 1 or more slotmachines in their gameroom. Plus it's electronics and there are a few here with much knowledge in this erea.

My question. A friend has bought a toplight



How do you change the lightbulb? (how to open this case. There are no screws)

What are those wires for (12V or 24V or ??). How to connect it to let it work?
(flat grey and the green under the screw are groundwires i think, but the small black, red or the other green, black or white one?)



Any info or where to find more info is apreciated

Just bought a playstation 2 demopod. Nice condition, key missing and one broken joypad but most important i'm missing the powercable,which turned out to be a strange one. Never seen the connection before.



Does someone else also has one and is willing to send me a picture of it,or know where to buy it?

Instruction manual/leaflet scan wanted also (on how to dismantel it to replace the broken joypad) (seen a leaflet  at a sale on marktplaats earlier this year)

Hello everyone,

What do you guys do when you buy a cab

1. clean the cab up
2. put it on to check what is working

or vice versa

I ask this because I bought a cab which have been stalled in a barn for years. Seller doesn't know if it still works so after buying i power it on to see if the monitor or sound or other parts are working. The powersuply worked the screen made some sizling sound for a few minutes then bam! something burst. I quickly unpluged the power, fearing it cought fire (best to test cabs for first time outside in case the cab catch fire and burning your barn/house? or not to worry when something like this happens)

Hello everyone, my name is Yungle, live in Amersfoort, the Netherlands and just started this great hobby. Recently came across an Operation Thunderbolt machine which is in fairly good condition except for the guns. Googled this common problem it seems, but not much real sollutions are handed hence this toppic here.

Many wrong? info or at least contradictory info about the guns. It suposed to have lenses or a small pcb inside the guns which I did't have in mine. It's a position gun and not a light/lens gun which is used in Operation Wolf cabs(?) although some on ebay say the guns are the same

One of the guns was working and the other was dead. Being a real noob with electronic I still got it to work because there were only 3 broken cables. Solder them and viola it workt again. Now I just have to calibrate them.

The real problem is the recoil function of the guns. One was working but it falters, so in my stupidity I siliconspray'd the iron shaft wich goes in/out the seranoid when the game was on. Worked great for 1 minute or so then it died. So now both guns don't 'vibrate' no more.

Does someone knows where you can buy this part, preferably in Holland? It's a seranoid C1101225A. Is it a special part only for this game or a common part wich can be bought in every electronic shop? Googled it but found nothing.

Ps. does someone live nearby and can show me howto savely discharge a monitor,seen movies but still have questions, in real with somebody who knows what he's doeing is the best.

Thanks