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FS Egret 2/Windy 2/NNC/Q25 (Repair refund)

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the monitor powers up, it’s the PSU putting 0.1V on the 5V rail. Once I get the death mold out of here I’ll get the new PSU in.
 
@Hatsune Mike can you post pics of the of psu for future reference. Well I did take on to much for my 1st group buy. Many thanks to all the people involved orgainizing things state side. I don't want to taint my name just in case another opportunity arise. So I will take care of this. Just need time
 
And here is my E2:

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And here is some of the rest of the others. They all have the same pecadillo hatsune mike mentioned (touched up with spray paint which turned yellow).

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And here is the Windy II that is going to my buddy that lent us the processing site:

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And here is the NNC I am ending up with (swapped with my buddy for as he really wanted the Windy II and we were shorted a Windy II by Yaton).

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And here is my assessment of the cabs:

IMO based upon the below scale, what I could see through the shrink/bubble wrap, and the few cabs that were unwrapped for local pick-up, here are my thoughts:
  1. Bad (functional/a parts cab)
  2. Fair (operated heavily on site location)
  3. Good (medium operation on site location)
  4. Very Good (light operation on site location)
  5. Excellent (NOS)
  • 8x - New Net City's: Very Good
    • The monitor shrouds on all of them were yellow which is inevitable given this much time since they rolled off the assembly line. Aside from that, they all looked very good consistently across all the cabs. All the cabs have 2P/6B per player. The only problem I could see is that it is a rat's nest back there. XeD posted a photo earlier.
  • 9x Windy City II's - Good
    • All exhibited yellowing on the monitor shrouds in spots. Not as consistent in terms of the imperfections as the NNC's.
  • 15x - Egret II's - Fair
    • And here is the bad news. None of these are in good shape. Even through the shrink/bubble wrap, they all show signs of having been touched up (see pics). Of course, the touch-up spots then yellow quickly. The good news is that the monitors do look pretty good. As these were last off the container, we were able to position them in the sun to illuminate burn on the tubes. We didn't see much or any through the wrap. Then the clouds covered the sun. All had 2P panels, some of the Astro City layout through button 4, and some with the 4 button Neo Geo style layout.
  • 2x Q25 - Fair
    • I had a 50/50 chance to unwrap one to check if it had the rotate mech nailed it in one shot. I could see some rust along the bottom (no pics taken).
  • 1x Domy Theater (didn't check)
Bear in mind, I did not scrutinize each and every cab. My assessment is from the cabs that were unwrapped for local pick up. All the rest were left wrapped and my assessment was a superficial visual inspection through the bubble wrap. No cherry picking as you can see with what Mike and I ended up with. The NNC's and Windy II's, folks should be happy. The E2's, since these are sooo hard to get, you will be disappointed unless you reset you expectations. I would still say these are worth what we paid for them. But I say this knowing I don't have to pay any additional freight charges to me. I think this eloquently stated earlier in this thread by @radiantsvgun bears repeating:
radiantsvgun said:
Any CRT cab not coming from another hobbyist is probably going to need work. Expect to have to put in time and money on these cabs, especially for this low price. Trust, as long as the monitor works- you can figure out the rest.
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FYI, these are still in Fremont, CA. rewrite and theoddtech are coming up from SoCal to pick-up 5 cabs. Cereth is grabbing the rest tomorrow at the same time.
 
XeD said:
Thanks for the report @acblunden2. Good to hear at first glance the Windy and NNC hit the 50% mark (that's a school pass right? Just not a trade school pass)
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70% where I went to school. Do they really have that low of expectations in Canadian schools?!?
 
That Q25 cab is much nicer in person than in its photos. The glass over the monitor screen gives it protection. You can put it on location in the US and thugggggz can't key the monitor screen :). Good choice for operators.
 
acblunden2 said:
That Q25 cab is much nicer in person than in its photos. The glass over the monitor screen gives it protection. You can put it on location in the US and thugggggz can't key the monitor screen :). Good choice for operators.
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That actually worked out backwards for Aero City/City/Aero Table cabs... If you have one with messed up glass you're pretty much looking for another cab to steal glass from, because Sega is dumb and they printed on that glass. So it would be cheaper to replace the monitor in most cases now. :(

And the mold scares me considering the Q25 is 50% wood...
 
Well I managed to neck the tube while using the rotate mechanism, so the tube is dead and I can’t give you a pic of how it looked when on.
 
Hatsune Mike said:
Well I managed to neck the tube while using the rotate mechanism, so the tube is dead and I can’t give you a pic of how it looked when on.
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Oh shit. I've heard this happen before :(

Do not attempt to rotate the tube unless you have verified that the wiring for the neck board has enough slack. If you're unsure, remove the neck board for safety.
 
I'm scared now. I have no way to fix or get new monitors here in Hawaii. I just hope I don't get something I can't fix in Hawaii.
 
nem said:
Do not attempt to rotate the tube unless you have verified that the wiring for the neck board has enough slack. If you're unsure, remove the neck board for safety.
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This^

there is NOTHING in these cabs to prevent over-rotation, rotation in the wrong direction, or to keep the wires getting snagged and necking the tube.

when I got my E29s both were setup in a way that if I tried to rotate them I would have necked the tube. I had to pull the neck board clip a bunch of old zip-ties and re-route the wires in a way that made it safe to rotate, and even then the first few times I took the back off and only rotated two inches at a time checking the wires to make sure they weren't snagging.

I've also since marked the lower left (in horizontal mode) tube ear with "B" to remind myself that that corner should always be at the bottom, so I don't rotate in the wrong direction.
 
. On the topic of necking tubes, to the people getting windy cabs be extremely cautious. You will not be rotating this monitor often. If you want to do it plan on keeping it that way for a very long time. there is no frame around the tube, there is just a very narrow hole into the plastic frame where the neck board and neck go. I recommend laying the cab on its back and disassembling the brackets that hold up the bezel and having a friend to help. If you do end up necking it, good luck finding a replacement tube and retrofitting another monitor tube well require cutting a lot of plastic more than likely.
 
90sCyberThriller said:
I recommend laying the cab on its back and disassembling the brackets that hold up the bezel and having a friend to help.
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What's the point of a rotate mech if you have to have to disassembly the bezel, lay the cab on it's back, and have a friend help... by that metric every cab has a "rotate mech" because that's the process for rotating in anything else.

at that point I'd rather not even have it, at least in a normal cab there's a frame that protects the neck.
 
I was only talking about the windy, it does not have a rotate mech. The monitor is just a tube with the neck board, no frame at all
 
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