Hi.
As everybody might know I got my grail from the Love Boat: Journey from Bally Midway. Since Journey is my most favourite Band in the world and my search didn't bring up any of these machines in Germany or Europe at all, I decided to import one from USA for my 50th birthday. When Thomas (aka Love) said he was organizing a container from USA I told him that I was searching for a Journey. Well, he found one on Craig's List and I bought it
Meanwhile it's in Dirk's hall.
Unfortunately some moron thought it was a good idea to make some extra money by selling a Journey-PCB-set. So he pulled my PCBs from the cab and replaced it with some nasty Two Tigers-PCBs (also from Bally). They are so dirty that even two 'rides' in the dishwasher couldn't clean them.
A new PCB-set for another $285 is now mine....hope it will make it's wya to me this time
Yesterday evening I spent some time with my cab. I did some measuring and to my surprise everything seems to work (besides the PCBs, of course). All voltages are present like they should.
It was a good choice to order all necessary artwork for the cab and have it shipped over here with the container.
As you can see the marquee has seen better days:
Maybe better when lit......no
New marquee will be installed after the cleaning process. But there is more to do. I removed the coin box and took a photo down to the ground plate:
See the corners left and right? Let's take a closer look:
LEFT
RIGHT
This cab must have hit the floor very hard in it's history, the drop caused some serious damage I cannot ignore. I think woodfiller will not be the right 'weapon' for this 'fight'. When the cab is empty I will put it on it's back and replace the base plate with a new one.
After that shock I continued the inspection and disassembly.
Etienne, count me in for the next "Alu Sticker Repro Run"
I removed the brackets that hold the tape player. The (very rare) original tape is still in place:
After some cleaning the tape player looked shiney
This view made my heart sing
The PLAY-key is pressed all the time. When a specific stage of the game is reached the player is powered from the small PCB sitting on the left side of the cab. It then plays the song "Separate Ways" until the stage is over.
Of course I grabbed a power supply that we use to run our little red laser. After adjusting the output (6VDC) and checking polarity I connected the player to the PS unit and pressed PLAY. Well, it played the song and it sounded familiar....like the self recorded cassettes I used to have back in the 70s
The player will get a good cleaning inside. I hope this will make the sound clearer. Since I know this song very well I noticed it plays a little too slow. I will ask a friend if there is something I can do. I think I remember there are means to adjust the speed.
I recorded this test with my cell phone camera. Quality is bad but you get the idea. I tried to get closer to the speaker but the broadcasting of the cellphone made me move back.
Here's a short video, if you want to listen
I removed all the stuff in the back. PCBs and the large (and heavy) power supply. I took those things home for a good clean.
This looks really bad but as I said: all voltages work perfectly
Here are the controls on the left side behind the backdoor. As you can see there are two volume pots. Lower one is for the PCB-sound, the upper one is for the music.
Erm, no, the picture is not rotated. Don't know why they were not able to print a sticker with the text NOT upside down. This should have been possible back in 1983
So far....more to come
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