Hi, many years ago I posted about my Outrun Machine:
https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=1077.0

The machine still exists but for various reasons it has never been repaired properly.
I now have time to continue this project.
The monitor was in storage and has now been returned to my house.

The monitor is beyond repair, the board at the back was filthy, the front of the screen had bad burn-in. It has gone to the skip.

However I have saved the mounting bracket because it had a Sega serial number on it.
It was held on with 4 10mm bolts, and the chassis was held on with 2 screws at the back.
I thought it best to save the metal mounting bracket because it fits Outrun perfectly.

The mounting bracket is filthy, not only with dust and dirt but it seems to be some kind of grease.
Is it safe to clean the mounting bracket with hot soapy water?
Do I have to treat it with any oil or thermal grease before putting it back in the cabinet?
Sorry if these are dumb questions but I really don't know.

I also need a suitable replacement monitor that would be easy to fit, looks good and safe to use.

I really need to buy a new switching transformer for the game boards, and I think a separate LCD monitor is the safest way to go however that might mean a multiplug inside the cabinet. Hopefully a local electrician can do all the electrics for me as I am not qualified to do this.

The old monitor said 110V. I think it was by Nanao.

Thanks Giddygoon for all your comments. I will probably buy a couple of spare parts next year when things are calmer. The green button seems to be out of stock at the moment. I'd like one of them.

>If you're gonna mame it then you'll want to get an Apac from ultimarc not optipac for the steering and pedals.
Can you describe how to wire this in detail please? Is it possible to get force feedback working on the wheel with Mame?

Red Rocket Retro don't seem to have a working website at the moment. I tried http://www.redrocketretro.co.uk/ and .com but no luck. Do you have an email address for them? You can send me a PM if you do.

An electrician showed me how to connect the secondary transformer. He suggested that "it might be knackered" because it was disconnected. I won't be able to test that until I can get the cabinet restored. The wiring loom looks as if it might have been hacked.

I am sure I will keep a CRT in there. The problems with this screen are burn in and additional weight.

A week ago my house was damaged by a storm so until that's repaired I won't be doing anything with my Outrun machine for a while.

Hi - I'm in Scotland. I don't think the secondary switching power supply replaces the old one.

I've seen pictures of 2 other machines with a secondary power supply in there (Giddygoon's and another restoration):
http://www.arcadelifestyle.net/forforum/giddy/DSC00264.JPG
http://www.system16.com/cybercade/games/outrun.html

If someone has an Outrun machine please let me know how it should be wired up.

To get the wiring loom out of there so I can get a joiner to look at repairing the cabinet, I cut the wires going to the monitor. I might wire it up to a 5 pin header for easy swapping with another monitor. It looks as if the broken wire I mentioned going to the PCB should be +5V so it wouldn't have worked anyway. I should probably try to get a new wiring loom and possibly a new power supply.

I think it would be excellent to have the power supply for Outrun very thoroughly documented as it can be dangerous and some of these old machines are a mess. I'm going to get an electrician to have a look at it though because the secondary power supply isn't connected to any input source.

For the upper marquee\speaker part a Torx T15 seems to remove the screws. I don't want to strip or damage them by using the wrong type of screwdriver.  Sega's documentation says Screwdriver type (M4): 540-0018, (M5): 540-0017.

I have won an Outrun Deluxe Upright machine on eBay! The previous owner said it was working originally, but hasn't been working for a while. The cabinet is in poor condition and needs restoration. I spent 3 hours dismantling it, so the cabinet is stable and movable by one person. I have the Owner's Manual so thought that I could bring it back to life.
 
The first problem was that the baseboard broke off completely when the removal company were collecting it! The cabinet has had water damage at some point, so the baseboard is going in the bin. The front panel has been removed for access and, yes, no Outrun diagonal sticker emblem.
 
For safety I have removed all of the components except the monitor and put them in a safe, warm, dry room.
i.e. pedal assembly, dashboard, screen mask, glass screen protector, bezel, motherboard, wiring loom, power supplies and rotten amp board.
 

I have a few questions someone here might be able to help me with:
 
1. The wiring loom is very complicated.
There is a 10 pin connecter (4 yellow, 4 white) with one yellow pin disconnected. It is connected next to the grey connector on the bottom motherboard. Should all of the yellow wires be connected? Does anyone have a pinout for this connector?
 
2. The power supply has 2 fuses disconnected. There are 4 connected wires which should all have 2A fuses according to the rating plate. One of them has a missing fuse (no wonder the machine wasn't working!).
 
What is the correct configuration for the power supply? There is a secondary transformer also on the power supply board which goes to a 6 pin connector (3 purple, 3 orange). What is that for? What is the correct way to earth the power supply and connect it from the mains?
 
3. The screen has a lot of burn-in. I would like to replace this with a LCD TV connected via SCART.
The circuit diagram shows R, G, B, Sync and Ground. I have a friend who is good with electronics and he should be able to wire up a SCART socket for me. Is it possible to connect Outrun to a TV?
 
Can I *cut* the wires from the screen to get the wiring loom out of the cabinet and be able to remove the heavy old CRT?
 
4. There is a 3 pin cable which "fell out of the bottom of the machine" (according to the delivery guy). It has a label on it that says BB. Does anyone know what that is for?
 
5. Where could I get a set of tamper proof screwdrivers to open the speaker\marquee part of the case?

6. I can't get the accelerator pedal of the old base-board which is now lying out in the rain in my back garden.

Replacement parts required:
1. The gear lever is stuck on high. It won't hold in the low gear position. Any ideas on how I could fix it?
2. I need a hi-lo plate for the gear lever.
3. Ferrari emblem for the steering wheel.
4. Outrun map for the bezel.

I am thinking of getting a professional joiner to restore the cabinet. It needs new T-molding, about 4 inches
repaired at the bottom left and right and a new base preferably with 2 fixed and 2 movable castors. If I can
get rid of that old, heavy CRT then castors might be suitable.

Ideally I would like a fully working, light-weight, electrically safe Outrun machine.

I wonder how much weight can be saved by binning the CRT and replacing it with an LCD TV.

If the power supply and wiring loom is too complicated to repair or replace then
I'd settle for the cabinet restored and replace it with a PC running Mame and Opti-arc for
the controller, but I take it that MAME cannot do force feedback on crash?
FinalBurnFF has never worked for me with various configurations on a Thrustmaster steering wheel.

Any help on any of these points would be great.