Sega Aero City! Great cabinets. (Part 2)

RandomRetro · Feb 6, 2021

Another Aero City restore thread! Took me awhile to get setup for this project, but we are now off. This Aero is the sibling to @opt2not s epic restore (thread here). He did the heavy lifting and picked up both cabs for us, and then shipped it to me! My cabinet is a little rougher, but hope to end up with a similar result. Seems only right to start this thread with the same picture he used in his initial post. Overall taking this project on was inspired by @Kavas epic restore of an Aero! Now time to get to work.

So it begins...

RandomRetro · Apr 20, 2021

Time to make some catch up posts on the progress of my restore.

So first off this thing had to get packed up and shipped out from @opt2not 's place to mine.

Once it arrived it sat alone, Dexter wrapped, for a few months in the garage waiting to be unleashed.

In February, I finally cracked her open. This thing was packed with some gifts. Two american style CPs, a Simpsons PCB (bought from @opt2not), and a Centipede PCB.

First glance, things didn't look bad.

opt2not · Apr 20, 2021

Yeahhhhh! It begins!

KaPH33n · Apr 20, 2021

one of my aeros also came to me as an americanized centipede... still have the cab and the centipede parts but they've long separated ways.

RandomRetro · Apr 20, 2021

Looking closer, you start to see the character of the machine. Autographed glass, monitor burn, and some weird holes in the footplate...

Definitely some dirt in this thing, but nothing crazy...

Chassis is a little dirty, and some funk on the underside of the chassis and neck board, but looks to be in solid shape overall...

Next up was to plug things in and test it out. A couple pots are super sensitive, so took a while to get sync right. But things checked out, though I know this tube is close to end of life. Thanks again to @opt2not for testing it with his rejuvenator before shipping!