Interior Assembly and Wiring:
Restoration Completed :
Well, it was a lot of work and a long time coming but I think it was well worth it. The original wiring was pretty much scrap but I was able to recover a few bits of it by thorough cleaning and minor connector repairs. The rest I had to make from scratch. I had about 15 colors of wire available including several white with various tracer colors matching the resistor color code. Robotron wires were often purple or green or gray (or white) with such tracer colors so in their place I had to use white with the same tracer colors. I replaced most of the headers on the PCB's and all of the connector housing's and terminals on the wiring. They are all Molex types so they are easy to source and don't cost much. The hardest part of the job is following the original wiring diagrams printed by Williams, mainly due to there being several errors in them. In the end, I got it all sorted out.
I made sure to keep all of the original plastic holddown clips and to put them back into the original locations. I also cleaned and painted all of the original phillips wood screws so they would look like new when I put them back in.
The used monitor that I installed didn't cost very much but it works okay, it was re-cap'd recently, and it is the correct age and model as used in Robotron originally. It was so dirty that I didn't want to put it into my nice clean cab but I guess I can always clean it later on or even replace it with a new one.
Coin Door Restoration Completed :
The coin door chassis had to be scrubbed clean and then completely re-wired. The decal on the 3-switch panel is new. The assembly is complete meaning that it includes the slam switch, the coin lockouts, and the lamps.
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