In december last year i had the chance to get my hands on a very rare and hard to find galaga´88 original cab. the asking price for it was 600 EUR incl. a 60 in 1 PCB. the cab was converted to a universal jamma machine, marquee is from pacmania, the cp is very hacked and also the wiring harness.
here are the sale annonce.
in detail:
arrived by me, i had first remove the red plexi from the cp. unfortunately the cpo are in poor condition, but fortunately the sidearts are present.
3x original serialnumber labels inside
In the last days i partially restored the galaga 88.
as you can seen on the last picture, the control panel is very hard hacked, it has 11!!! extra holes they must be filled.
A nice cpo repro from usa arrived in the last days.
Ok, first thing to do: removing the old cpo
and done...
taping up the original holes.
ok, and now the big question, how to close these many holes. the professional way is welding in a metal factory. The first viewed factory located in my neighboorhood, the asking price 70 EUR for make it.
i´m pissed off and says good bye.
today i came in another factory and these people are very incredible. they took directly the panel and after 15 minutes it was finished, and the price: 10 EUR for filling 11 holes incl. grinding and bending. I gave him 20 EUR, very nice job!!!
here pics from work on my panel.
ok, arrived home i sand the panel and makes it clean and smooth. Next step: paint job.
After these i take the new cpo from the usa and fixed it on the panel.
Ok, and now the final act: tape the cpo. fortunately an easy step, the quality was very good and the material easy to handle.
After installation of 2 cone button i built the cp in my galaga 88.
I think i´ts looking very good, or isn´t?
and the entire view
Next steps:
still looking for a galaga 88 pcb
looking for wiring harness from pacmania/galaga88 cab
and...
asking bruno kindly again for his galaga´88 marquee...
