Completed Project:
View with the new back door removed:
The cab was originally a Ms Pacman so there was no metal cage for the boardset. Instead of trying to locate and purchase an original rack (which I still might do someday), I made one out of three pieces hardwood. I slotted the sideboards on a tablesaw. I routed a nice hole in the bottom board to clear the ribbon cable and headers so that no stress is put on those parts. The rack itself is held in place by 2 wood screws that go into the cab floor. Because the new monitor is new, I didn't really need an isolation transformer but I installed one anyway just in case I ever swap the monitor out for an older one for some insane reason. I mounted a new switching power supply, iso-former, line filter, and a 3 amp circuit breaker all to a hardwood board and then mounted the entire assembly with 4 screws. This way, the entire power supply assembly can be removed in one big piece if any work needs to be done on it.
Each set of four nuts in the front corners of the floor are holding caster wheels. The original leg-levelers were gone anyway and I prefer casters to make the machine easy to move around the game room. Of course there are wheels in the back corners also.
Yes, it's white and clean all the way up. You can see the speaker wires going up the left side and the marquee and power switch wires going up the right side. Notice all the steel parts inside are painted primer gray.
The coin box and coin door assembly is now lighted, clean, and fully functional. There is supposed to be a panel mounted (glued) to those two vertical wooden bars on the sides to protect anyone reaching inside the game through the coin door from the monitor. I will have to make a new panel and install it later. For home use, this panel being missing is not posing any hazard.
An overall interior shot.
Here's the back door interlock switch. It switches both line and neutral wires for added safety.
Here's the brand new Wells Gardner CGA 19" monitor:
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