Jaleco Pony table - Restoration

[_rm_]

Hi folks,

as some of you already know, i recently found a Pony table.

The table had a few problems, the major one being the dead (vertical colapse) Nanao MS7. I was lucky enough and managed to repair it yesterday :awe:

Besides that, she is completely original, it only misses the player 1 start button and coin door, but the OP says he has the door somewhere at the warehouse...

I will start to strip her soon and prepare for powdercoating, wich brings me to my first question:

- Does anyone ever seen any evidence about the original color RAL???

I've never even saw a green Pony table before besides the original brochure. Obviously i can fine tune the color for a perfect match, but the RAL would be great.

 

[ECZangief]

Very nice!

I was jealous that you had REAL Pony after my joke posting over at AO. Congrats.

If you ever wanna sell it.......

 

[_rm_]

I just mentioned at AO that someone bought a magazine that i've never heard of before. Does it have any additional info about these you can share?

Or is everything in Japanese?

If you could be kind enough to scan that, it would be great

I really don't consider selling,lol, sorry.

 

[pulstar]

Awesome. I love these early Pony designs (Mk II and Mk III). Good luck with the restore.

 

[FLTCHRR]

Gorgeous! I really love the angles.

 

[Jonmkl]

Oh man, it's green like the envy it makes me feel!

That's sick though, amazing find!

 

[Tyranix95]

SEXY!!

And she makes green look good.

 

[Halfabag]

_rm_, RAL colours are a German Standard set of colours that are mainly used in different industries, pretty much like our British Standard colours here in the uk.

I'd be surprised if that's the original colour considering its a Japanese made product, but I know nothing about them TBH.

Head down to your local car/industrial paint supplier and borrow a RAL colour chart off them.

The greens are in the number 6 range, it will be something like 6018 or 6029. Hope this helps.

 

[_rm_]

Head down to your local car/industrial paint supplier and borrow a RAL colour chart off them.

The greens are in the number 6 range, it will be something like 6018 or 6029. Hope this helps.

Thanks for your input mate. My father works on the car industry so i have access to that kind of stuff, just wanted to know if the color code was known to make an exact match.

Assuming that i will never find the original color code, i can definitely fine tune a color that will be virtual impossible to tell the difference from the original

 

[_rm_]

SEX!!

And she makes green look good.

Exactly my thought

 

[arcade game]

Yay!!!!!!!!!
Congrats ,you're so lucky to find that jaleco pony table
In super great condition!

 

[GutsDozer]

Awesome! Can't wait to see some progress pics.

 

[ECZangief]

I just mentioned at AO that someone bought a magazine that i've never heard of before. Does it have any additional info about these you can share?

Or is everything in Japanese?

If you could be kind enough to scan that, it would be great

I really don't consider selling,lol, sorry.

Unfortunately it is mostly in Japanese. I don't have my scanner hooked up atm but I can take some quick and dirty pictures for you. I will post them here, and if you can point me to the relevant thread on AO.... I can pop them over there too.

EDIT:

Here is the Jaleco Vitamin 'zine:
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[_rm_]

Unfortunately it is mostly in Japanese. I don't have my scanner hooked up atm but I can take some quick and dirty pictures for you. I will post them here, and if you can point me to the relevant thread on AO.... I can pop them over there too.

Thanks mate.
Here is the link to AO:
http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=30111

 

[Heinz]

I've recently fallen in love with table tops, this one looks awesome! Can't wait to see your progress man.

 

[_rm_]

If everything goes according to plan, i will start to take it apart this weekend, i will share a couple more pictures of the interior and control panel, which is in a very decent shape.

It even has the original "wood plaque" that is used to hold the PCB's in place with a cool japanese sticker, someone will have to translate that

EDIT - Oh, it also has the original stickers for the headphone jacks, will have to scan those.

 

[_rm_]

I got around 10 minutes of work time with the cab so i started to take some parts off.

This is the plaque that i mentioned before, does anyone knows what the sticker says?:



I took the monitor out:



and the control panel too:



This one was a great surprise. You only need to unscrew two bolts by hand and you take the CP out, it literally takes less than 30 seconds to do this. Awesome compared to Sega CP's.

Does anyone know the reference of the Start Button? Is is still possible to find the same buttons?

Thank you all for your interest and comments/help with this project.

PS- Sorry for the lousy phone pics

 

[GutsDozer]

Awesome bro keep truckin'.

 

[opt2not]

Great pick-up! I'm definitely going to watch your progress.

 

[1up]

Awesome that such a rare cab went into an arcade collector who will give a proper restoration job and will get some play.
i'm glad that this did not went into the hands of a greedy reseller...

keep up the good work _rm_

 

[Atro]

i'm glad that this did not went into the hands of a greedy reseller...

Yeah, It went into the hands of a greedy collector
AHAHAHA !

Keep up the good work

 

[Evilpoptart]

WOW awesome find! Looking forward to seeing the full restore pictures! +1

 

[cornerstone]

How did you end up fixing the vertical collapse?

 

[_rm_]

How did you end up fixing the vertical collapse?

I checked all the transistors in the vertical deflection section of the chassis looking for a faulty one, but they were all good. I simply put them back and the image came back to life.

Sometimes vertical colapse problems are simple cold joints that need a good reflow. I was lucky because this was one of those situations.

 

[_rm_]

Once again, thank you all for the motivation posts.

Yesterday i finished stripping the entire cab, i have a few new lousy pics to post,lol.

I hope i can connect all the wires back in the correct way...