danox574
Krauser's Shoe Shiner
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- Dec 10, 2006
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I have a pair of pretty rough old Aero City cabs that I've had for maybe -- 4-5 years. They've never been pretty but they do the job. I've decided to properly restore one -- out of the two, due to cabinet dents and such, I feel I can make one really nice cabinet, and I'll find a home for what's left over when I'm done. Currently it's in the process of being torn apart, soon to start sanding, and then take it to a spray booth for a non-traditional color of some sort. Nice speakers, some Sanwa love, etc. Unforutnately the side art is not worth restoring, but perhaps I can get some graphics printed on adhesive someday and bring it back.
Say what you will about this cabinet, it's small, angular, and very groovy, fits through any door you can throw at it, but the monitors I have are in bad shape, and certainly tweakable, but burnt and I don't think they are something I want in my cab.
I intend on more or less arranging it as a permanent vertical monitor arrangement for shmups, but obviously, as gear keeps coming in, it could be repurposed.
Doing a little research and reading about the 27" (29" tube I think) Makvision HAPP is selling, I thought the 24.8" CGA/EGA/VGA resolution would be nice for it, but I've been told that native tri-sync monitors don't look as good at lower resolutions as the pure low-res monitors. The price is certainly right (a bit over $400 as I recall). In fact, I don't own a vertical 31KHz capable game, or even know what's out there (and my only Horizontal is an AW) Yet, the Makvisions are still cheaper than WG or other comparible 25" and come somewhat recommended. What would YOU do for a monitor?
Second, I don't have any other candies outside of a Neo, so I don't know how common this is, but the JAMMA harness is very short. It's about 8" connected to a fingerboard with straight traces and plugged into a socket, on the back of which the wires come off and spider out to the various systems. I can't tell if this cabinet was retrofitted to JAMMA, or if this connector had some other purpose. When I rewire the cabinet, I think I'm just going to dump it, unless there's something particularly useful about that connector that I don't know and some one here can tip me off to.
Third, any suggestions for tools to remove cylinder locks I don't have keys for? It would seem that the coin door on both my Aeros is not keyed alike, and I have no key, but it is a heavy-duty circular security lock. In fact, my Neo29 control panel needs the locks drilled out too eventually. A quick google search turned up only speciality tools that I was hoping with things like a dremel, drills, etc. I wouldn't have to buy more than a bit. Any recommendations?
-Dan
Say what you will about this cabinet, it's small, angular, and very groovy, fits through any door you can throw at it, but the monitors I have are in bad shape, and certainly tweakable, but burnt and I don't think they are something I want in my cab.
I intend on more or less arranging it as a permanent vertical monitor arrangement for shmups, but obviously, as gear keeps coming in, it could be repurposed.
Doing a little research and reading about the 27" (29" tube I think) Makvision HAPP is selling, I thought the 24.8" CGA/EGA/VGA resolution would be nice for it, but I've been told that native tri-sync monitors don't look as good at lower resolutions as the pure low-res monitors. The price is certainly right (a bit over $400 as I recall). In fact, I don't own a vertical 31KHz capable game, or even know what's out there (and my only Horizontal is an AW) Yet, the Makvisions are still cheaper than WG or other comparible 25" and come somewhat recommended. What would YOU do for a monitor?
Second, I don't have any other candies outside of a Neo, so I don't know how common this is, but the JAMMA harness is very short. It's about 8" connected to a fingerboard with straight traces and plugged into a socket, on the back of which the wires come off and spider out to the various systems. I can't tell if this cabinet was retrofitted to JAMMA, or if this connector had some other purpose. When I rewire the cabinet, I think I'm just going to dump it, unless there's something particularly useful about that connector that I don't know and some one here can tip me off to.
Third, any suggestions for tools to remove cylinder locks I don't have keys for? It would seem that the coin door on both my Aeros is not keyed alike, and I have no key, but it is a heavy-duty circular security lock. In fact, my Neo29 control panel needs the locks drilled out too eventually. A quick google search turned up only speciality tools that I was hoping with things like a dremel, drills, etc. I wouldn't have to buy more than a bit. Any recommendations?
-Dan
Always wanted an Aero or an Aero Table. Will be great to see pics of the resto process. (subscribes to thread)
you could probably sell that on ebay. Some crazy asshole would buy it
