Hey everyone, as you may have seen in my recent feedback for 310Imports I got some new cabs! 310 was doing was last container to Utah so I took advantage of the opportunity to get some cabs with much cheaper shipping costs to me. I basically just doubled what I already have: 2 Vewlix Diamond Blues and 2 Astro Cities. I really like these cabs so why not get more, right?
I took delivery on June 26 and a friend of mine got an aero city but they’re out of town atm, so I am storing that one in the back for them.
I was pumped to see that the vewlixes both came with blue, 1P Taito panels! And they’re in awesome shape.
I started with the vewlixes because they’re pretty dang easy to take apart and clean.
Last time I did this it was winter so I did everything in my covered patio. It sucked. I’m grateful for good weather so I could clean these outside.
Like I did with the last ones I used a mild degreaser (method from target. Probably spent $70 total on that cleaner during all this
). Let it soak for a bit, then hose down.
I made sure to really clean the bottom of the cabs with the degreaser and then alcohol so I knew they’d be clean while sitting on the carpet.
During this process I found 350 yen in coins. So it’s already paying me back.
The process of cleaning these is pretty standard. Take prices apart, soak them in degreaser and cleaner, rinse off, reassemble. The worst parts are the plastics. They’re so brittle after years of sitting and likely being somewhat in the sun. It’s best to tread carefully with them.
I also cleaned all the harnesses. I usually do simple green, then a quick alcohol bath, then blow out all the connectors with air and hang dry for a couple of days.
The monitors were in really good condition once I got the glass off and cleaned the dust out. These will be great until I swap them with 1440 monitors using @FrancoB’s mounts.
I made sure to clean the monitor PCBs and fans, too.
Once one was wrapped up I started on the second one.
I took delivery on June 26 and a friend of mine got an aero city but they’re out of town atm, so I am storing that one in the back for them.
I was pumped to see that the vewlixes both came with blue, 1P Taito panels! And they’re in awesome shape.
I started with the vewlixes because they’re pretty dang easy to take apart and clean.
Last time I did this it was winter so I did everything in my covered patio. It sucked. I’m grateful for good weather so I could clean these outside.
Like I did with the last ones I used a mild degreaser (method from target. Probably spent $70 total on that cleaner during all this
). Let it soak for a bit, then hose down. I made sure to really clean the bottom of the cabs with the degreaser and then alcohol so I knew they’d be clean while sitting on the carpet.
During this process I found 350 yen in coins. So it’s already paying me back.
The process of cleaning these is pretty standard. Take prices apart, soak them in degreaser and cleaner, rinse off, reassemble. The worst parts are the plastics. They’re so brittle after years of sitting and likely being somewhat in the sun. It’s best to tread carefully with them.
I also cleaned all the harnesses. I usually do simple green, then a quick alcohol bath, then blow out all the connectors with air and hang dry for a couple of days.
The monitors were in really good condition once I got the glass off and cleaned the dust out. These will be great until I swap them with 1440 monitors using @FrancoB’s mounts.
I made sure to clean the monitor PCBs and fans, too.
Once one was wrapped up I started on the second one.
I wonder if yours came from the same arcade as mine. Mine looked near identical on the inside. Luckily it all came off pretty easily. Just out of interest, what are the serial numbers of your Dia Blues if you don't mind me asking? I wonder if they are close to mine... Mine are 3365876 and 3365877
