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General Chat => 'Business' Area : Buy/Sell/Trade => Topic started by: Luigi on June 21, 2013, 09:38:48 AM

Title: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Luigi on June 21, 2013, 09:38:48 AM
Hi.

For the restoration of my Journey-cab I need some parts. Since some other Midway-cabs used the same parts maybe someone has them and is willing to sell them  :)

OK, what I need:

* Black plastic bezel for 19" monitor (Midway nr. 0557-00900-000) LINK (http://www.pac-man.com/mspacman/cocktail/in/)

* 4 clips (the can also be seen in the link above for the bezel), someone said they are for holding the tinted plexi to the plastic bezel...no clue how this works or should look like

* Diffuser / tinted plexi glass, can get it on my own if I know the exact measures

* Kickplate LINK (http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=KICKPLATEM)


Anyone has them lying around?

Thanks :)


Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Luigi on June 21, 2013, 10:55:15 AM
OK, I have a picture of the Bezel I need.

I found that scr33n bought MY bezel for his Burgertime build-from-scratch ;)

(http://www.thludwig.de/arcade/pics/Journey/bezel_4.jpg)

(http://www.thludwig.de/arcade/pics/Journey/bezel_3.jpg)


And these are the clips that hold down the tinted plexi.

(http://www.thludwig.de/arcade/pics/Journey/midway_bezel-clips.jpg)


Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: level42 on June 21, 2013, 11:04:22 AM
(http://www.thludwig.de/arcade/pics/Journey/midway_bezel-clips.jpg)

Need those for my Galaxian too....they're still missing.
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Luigi on June 21, 2013, 11:26:22 AM
Galaxian has these, too?? I should dig around the Midway manuals to find out, what games used these. Does it also have the same bezel?

I should go into our gameroom and see if I can butcher our Midway cabs...we have Pac Man, Galaxian, Discs of Tron,....  ;D  ;)
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: level42 on June 21, 2013, 11:39:37 AM
Galaxian has these, too?? I should dig around the Midway manuals to find out, what games used these. Does it also have the same bezel?

I should go into our gameroom and see if I can butcher our Midway cabs...we have Pac Man, Galaxian, Discs of Tron,....  ;D  ;)

I think Pac, Galaxian, Ms.Pac and following that Galaga probably as well, but how would I know about Galaga ? ;)
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: PaulSwan on June 21, 2013, 06:50:18 PM
Galaxian had a different surround, bezel & tinted sheet than my Lazarian at least.
Paul.
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Luigi on June 21, 2013, 06:55:02 PM
Yes, according to the manual the bezels have different numbers.

I have contacted a KLOVer who wants me to make an offer for a set of bezel/tinted plexi/clips.

André, are you sure these are the clips you need? I could ask him, he seems to have some Midway stuff.

What do you guys think is a reasonable price? For 30 years old plastic stuff  ;D
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: level42 on June 22, 2013, 12:47:36 AM
I'm not 100% sure...but I know that my tinted plexi is loose and that can't be right, right ?
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Robinholland on June 22, 2013, 06:45:55 AM
Pacman have also a different surround
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Luigi on June 23, 2013, 01:34:22 PM
OK, I found a source for all the bezel stuff I need. He has more of those Midway parts if someone is in need. Let me know and I will ask.
I wanted to have it come over here in Container #3, contacted Love to get green light for it.

André, if you're looking for the clips in your Midway Galaxian I can take a look in mine and see what you need....only if they're in their place in mine, of course ;)
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Luigi on June 24, 2013, 08:18:00 AM
hm, I took a picture of my Galaxian...if this the original bezel there are no clips for the tinted plexi...mine even doesn't have the tinted plexi at all  :-\

Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: ckong on June 24, 2013, 12:18:22 PM
Pac-Man and Galaxian have smoked plexi, but no clips. The plexi is mounted on the plastic bezel with black adhesive plastic tape. The size of the plexi is for both games the same.

Galaga and Ms.Pac also have smoked plexi and clips. Also the same size for both games.

The size of the plexi glass for the first two games is different from the size of the last two games.
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Luigi on June 24, 2013, 12:35:53 PM
Pac-Man and Galaxian have smoked plexi, but no clips. The plexi is mounted on the plastic bezel with black adhesive plastic tape. The size of the plexi is for both games the same.

Galaga and Ms.Pac also have smoked plexi and clips. Also the same size for both games.

The size of the plexi glass for the first two games is different from the size of the last two games.

Do you know if my bezel is original?  ???
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: level42 on June 24, 2013, 04:26:34 PM
Yes CKONG is 100% correct. I forgot but indeed the plexi is taped (in a rather basic way) to the bezel. I'm 99% sure yours is original.

One tip: don't go too dark when buying a plexi for this. I'm convinced that the dark tine of these bezels made it necessary to overdrive the brightness of the screen, which resulted in CRT burn. Take a look at about any Ms.Pac Man you see in original condition and it has the maze literarily edged into the phosphor.

So if you use a less dark plexi, you won't have to "turn it up" so high...
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Etienne MacGyver on June 24, 2013, 06:50:05 PM
Screenburn ? on a mrs pac ??   ;D

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f66/smalltownguy2/Tube%20Swap/IMG_8549.jpg)

Yes, its unplugged  :o

Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: PaulSwan on June 24, 2013, 06:55:01 PM
Time for that one to retire to the test bench. It's had a good long working life ;)
Paul.
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: level42 on June 24, 2013, 09:57:02 PM
One thing forgot:

The Galaxian bezel is always "loose" over my monitor. Whenever I move the cab it gets shifted around. Do we know if it is supposed to be mounted in some way ? On a Ms.Pac that is neatly arranged...
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Robinholland on June 24, 2013, 10:17:10 PM
The plexi is mounted on the glas with galaxian
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Robinholland on June 24, 2013, 10:19:12 PM
This is a pacman/galaxian bezel


hm, I took a picture of my Galaxian...if this the original bezel there are no clips for the tinted plexi...mine even doesn't have the tinted plexi at all  :-\


Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: level42 on June 24, 2013, 10:28:57 PM
The plexi is mounted on the glas with galaxian

Ah, so I should stick the bezel/plexi combo to the glass bezel ? Weird....and a bit scary...
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Robinholland on June 24, 2013, 10:47:01 PM
Only the plexi not the combo
Maybe only on early games ?

The plexi is mounted on the glas with galaxian

Ah, so I should stick the bezel/plexi combo to the glass bezel ? Weird....and a bit scary...
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: level42 on June 24, 2013, 10:47:47 PM
So it's supposed to be loose over the CRT ?
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Robinholland on June 24, 2013, 10:55:56 PM
No stick it on the glass bezel with double tape

So it's supposed to be loose over the CRT ?
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: ckong on June 25, 2013, 12:07:18 AM
One thing forgot:

The Galaxian bezel is always "loose" over my monitor. Whenever I move the cab it gets shifted around. Do we know if it is supposed to be mounted in some way ? On a Ms.Pac that is neatly arranged...

There should be little screw holes bottom left and right, where the bezel can be screwed to the wood beneath it. At least, that is done with my Galaxian and it looks original, somehow.  ???
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Luigi on June 25, 2013, 07:49:41 AM
Yes, mine was nailed with small nails to the bottom wood :)
Title: Re: Wanted: Midway parts
Post by: Luigi on October 22, 2013, 07:01:38 PM
OK, meanwhile I have the black plastic bezel, the tinted plexi and the clips with the screws. I was very happy....until I found out that there is nothing I could screw them to  ???

Did some investigation and guess what? More parts missing  :'(

Maybe someone has those two metal brackets for sale.....please dig your boxes and storages!

Thanks :)