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Here are some pictures from my Pac-Man cocktail restoration. I spent about two weeks from start to finish, and every minute of it was so much fun. A comedy of errors prompted me to start this project, and I eventually spent way more than I ever intended. In short, a failed solder joint was the culprit.
 This is a picture of the inside of the cabinet, before it was re-wired. The wires are brittle, and some of the solder joints are failing. The fuse blocks are a disaster waiting to happen. Years of grime, dust, and smoke have done a real job on the transformers.  Here is what the inside of the cabinet looked liked after the re-wiring was completed. Besides the new wiring harness, I added a new monitor, speaker, fan, start buttons, leaf switches, and hardware for the control panels. The entire project took about two weeks to complete, which was much sooner than I anticipated. See the complete parts list.  Here is a picture of the transformer assembly board, before and after. The transformers were so dirty, I had to spend about an hour to clean both of them. Once I was done, they shined like sterling. That's not paint, that's the actual metal housing! I also made a new plywood board.  Here is the power section of the Pac-Man schematics. When I first started, I didn't know how to read these, so I had to manually trace each wire and note it's path on a piece of paper. This was pretty tedious, as I had to cut one end of the wire, then follow it as it looped and twisted for six feet inside the cabinet. The work paid off, because I was then able to look at my diagram, then look and the schematic and finally understand it. |
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