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Hi Slots, 

I am afraid that I have had my stock of boards upside down and inside out and I seem to only have socket 775's left, which is a shame, if you want one to see how bent out of shape the disk image gets then let me know. It might be worth cloning the drive first though just in case you can get your hands on a socket 478 board.

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10 hours ago, WibbleWobble said:

Hi Slots, 

I am afraid that I have had my stock of boards upside down and inside out and I seem to only have socket 775's left, which is a shame, if you want one to see how bent out of shape the disk image gets then let me know. It might be worth cloning the drive first though just in case you can get your hands on a socket 478 board.

Pete

Many thanks for looking for a 478 anyway, I think I'm going to be SOL in terms of getting a replacement board on the same platform, but do like the idea of toying with the original mainboard first. I mean it's knackered, so it's not like I can make it any worse :D

I've cloned the drive already to my PC, along with my T7 and Storm cab images, and will be putting them all on external drives in the very near future (at the moment they are on both my NVME and SATA SSDs, but both internal).

If you wanted to send over a 775 board I'd still take it, but would need to sort out compatible CPU and RAM which again adds into the expense of it, if it turns out not to work :)

 

In other news, I got bored earlier so busted out a holesaw and made some button holes for my first sheet of MDF. If it's not already obvious then I actually dropped out of (well, never sat) DT at GCSE level. One of those times I wish I'd actually paid attention at school, assuming I had the attention span back then (I certainly don't now!!).

It's just a sheet of MR MDF, I made a VESA mount (well, a square of holes 10cm x 10cm) in an off-cut and have mounted that to my sheet of MDF using some 4mm machine screws and a ton of spacers. In a future build I'd almost certainly mount the monitor to the cabinet so it puts less pressure on the MDF. 

Let's not forget, this was the tattiest of my two ex-skill-game cabinets to begin with and it's my 'learning' cabinet, I'm sure any future cabinets will be tidier! Good thing it's only £3.50 a sheet for this stuff, even if it did catch fire (well, smoke a bit and get rather hot) while drilling :)

The reason for the large gap at the right hand side is that is where the metalwork is for coin-handling on this cabinet, so I can't really put anything in that space without removing the internal metalwork. As I may potentially still implement coin handling (although it's not that likely) on this first cabinet, I've left the metalwork in place and that means that anything fitted there - buttons e.t.c. - would be touching the metalwork and the door wouldn't close.

 

 

 

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Currently owned digitals : T7 Encore, T7 Original, Astra iPub and Storm Street Casino.

MFME cabinets : Genesis cab DIY by No1Stoney, Interplay conversion and Vegas Strip conversion (both are works in progress!)

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Painted the MDF a couple of days back, and put it back into the metalwork, and have just re-attached the metalwork to the cabinet. Not really a one-man job (as I found out), but got away with just a gashed knuckled, although did mark some of the MDF I'd painted, as well as the cabinet, so will do a bit of touch-up cosmetic work nearer completion :)

Anyway, good news is it all fits!

Still need to do the bottom button panel, and all the wiring and stuff, but at least having a cabinet that looks almost cabinet-like is a start!!

 

 

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Currently owned digitals : T7 Encore, T7 Original, Astra iPub and Storm Street Casino.

MFME cabinets : Genesis cab DIY by No1Stoney, Interplay conversion and Vegas Strip conversion (both are works in progress!)

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Thought I'd better do a little more work on the cabinet today, starting with the wiring. Like a muppet I ordered the Pacdrive from eBay without checking it would come with the correct connectors on the bundled wiring (I needed the 6mm-ish ones) whereas if I'd ordered direct I could have specified which connectors I needed.

So, old connectors cut off, crimping tool and crappy cheapo wire stripper at the ready!

(I was originally planning on just soldering it all but realised that would make switch replacement a bigger ballache than it needs to be!!).

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I honestly reckon this phone puts typos in just to make me look daft(er)!!!!!

Currently owned digitals : T7 Encore, T7 Original, Astra iPub and Storm Street Casino.

MFME cabinets : Genesis cab DIY by No1Stoney, Interplay conversion and Vegas Strip conversion (both are works in progress!)

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I spent last night playing Impulse games on my new laptop / tablet combo (Laplet? Tabtop?!) and it was such a good experience. It got me thinking about my next cabinet after this one.

Pretty sure that for the next one I'll stick with just buttons at the bottom for the 'base game', and get a touch panel rather than a normal monitor. Only issue with that would be trying to get a 16:10 touchpanel as almost all consumer-grade ones are 16:9.

I feel like buttons at the bottom definitely add to the 'experience' of playing a real machine, but the buttons on the top glass of most machine are only infrequently pressed, probably only once or twice a feature board unless it's a Hi-Lo type game, so it would make more sense to be able to just stick with a touchscreen.

Will get a bit more wiring sorted today before work for this cabinet anyway, quite enjoying crimping the wires even though using 22AWG with these size connectors was a bit of a mistake, should really have gone thicker (so 20 or 18 I reckon).

 

 

 

 

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Currently owned digitals : T7 Encore, T7 Original, Astra iPub and Storm Street Casino.

MFME cabinets : Genesis cab DIY by No1Stoney, Interplay conversion and Vegas Strip conversion (both are works in progress!)

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Hi @slotsmagicwould this be any good for your quiz machine?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Shuttle-X-Shuttle-PC-all-in-one-from-fatspanner-Paragon-quiz-machine-AMD-Sempron/164775108041?hash=item265d5c9dc9:g:okwAAOSw63NgWMXt

saw it on Ebay, and thought of you. Not from the same make of machine, but of that era. Maybe has the spares you need.

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59 minutes ago, davep180 said:

Hi @slotsmagicwould this be any good for your quiz machine?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Shuttle-X-Shuttle-PC-all-in-one-from-fatspanner-Paragon-quiz-machine-AMD-Sempron/164775108041?hash=item265d5c9dc9:g:okwAAOSw63NgWMXt

saw it on Ebay, and thought of you. Not from the same make of machine, but of that era. Maybe has the spares you need.

Appreciate it, without it being tested though it would probably just get added to my pile of other junk :D

Been a complete arse this week, was meant to be working on my MFME cab on this week off. Might get something done with it today or tomorrow, back at work Monday and possibly part-exing my car in on Tuesday for something a bit chunkier :)

Currently owned digitals : T7 Encore, T7 Original, Astra iPub and Storm Street Casino.

MFME cabinets : Genesis cab DIY by No1Stoney, Interplay conversion and Vegas Strip conversion (both are works in progress!)

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47 minutes ago, slotsmagic said:

possibly part-exing my car in on Tuesday for something a bit chunkier

Good luck with that one mate. I had to chop my old van in a few months ago. Bought a second hand car from a dealer, it's been back to them several times now, as it has a disliking of oil, and throws it on the floor! It's always a bit of a spin on the roulette wheel, unless you plan to get something quite new.

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3 hours ago, davep180 said:

Good luck with that one mate. I had to chop my old van in a few months ago. Bought a second hand car from a dealer, it's been back to them several times now, as it has a disliking of oil, and throws it on the floor! It's always a bit of a spin on the roulette wheel, unless you plan to get something quite new.

Trading in my 18 plate Cooper S for a 69 plate Vitara 1.4 Boosterjet SZT. Something a little chunkier. They value mine at £13500 and theirs is £13999 which seems fair enough, will be good to get another car with a couple of years warranty on it!

I'll miss the look and character of the Mini, but the 1.4 turbo Suzukis are surprisingly quick, and it'll be nice to have something a bit chunkier for the crap roads out here (I think I know the positions of all the potholes in town but I swear the damn things are breeding!!) :)

 

(Edit) Decided to cut out an MDF button panel after posting, so at least that is some progress! Just ordered a load of Gamesman buttons with the red surrounds, using them for the bottom button panel. Should be here the end of the week or thereabouts.

Before they arrive though I'll get this panel fully cut out, primed and painted :)

 

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Decided to do some MDF cutting!
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OK it's not much of an update, but I'm making a bit of space in the garage, and decided that since this cabinet will be my 'in home' cabinet, I'd put it on the nicer of the two plinths to get one of them out of the way. The plinth from 'Skill Balls of Steel' was significantly better nick than the original plinth from this machine (Super Skill Tower), so went with that one. Pretty easy to reattach, just 4 rather chunky M8 or so bolts and it's done. 

I say that, but putting the Skill Balls of Steel onto the plinth that this machine on hasn't been quite as easy, so that'll need a little drilling (I can either get the 2x frontmost, or rearmost bolts in, but not all 4 at the same time!). That's not urgent though. These really do need to be properly mounted to a plinth / base / stand of some sort if left in 'front opening' mode, otherwise these cabinets topple over forwards. A bit like a Barcrest T777 on castors falling over, but significantly less expensive.

Would be interested to know an actual weight of the complete cab, the base was easy enough to push / slide upstairs, and I carried the top of the cabinet upstairs to the 'den' a while back and that was also pretty easy. I'd be worried about a normal 120KG machine up there, but I doubt the total weight of this is over 80KG?

Crap blurry photo with the decor of the den (it's very much in need of decoration!) blanked out. So at least it's looking more 'machine-like'.

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