News Item: : Scramble Arcade Cabinet Project:
(Category: Misc)
Posted by Bullwinkle
Saturday September 12 2009 - 07:17AM

I figure if I'm going to build a game room, I might as well start with my favorite game.  Over the years, I've collected a few pieces and parts to a Scramble cabinet, but still have a long way to go. 

Here's what I need:

19" Monitor




Sept 12, 2009
Here's what I have so far:

cab2.jpg1 Scramble Cabinet

(condition:  beat-up and painted an ugly gray.  When I aquired it, I tried stripping the gray paint off with mixed results.  At least I have a template of the graphic if I choose to repaint it.  The wiring harness inside and the coin door seem to be intact as well)

cab1.jpg




1 Glass painted bezal

(condition:  Like the cabinet, has seen better days, but most of the artwork is in tact)
scr-bezal.jpg













3 Control Panels

(condition:  All 3 are functional.  The CP on the cabinet has most of the CPO removed.  The 2nd Scramble CP I have has most of the overlay in tact (see below)


scr-cp.jpg

As an alternative, I do have a Super Cobra CP that would work as well (see below)


supcob-cp.jpg

Sept 18, 2009:
Scramble Board and Marquee arrive from KLOV Member, MikeSandwick - thanks Mike.

scra-marquee.jpg scra-pcb.jpg


Sept 19 & 20, 2009:
Covered cabinet sideart with painter's masking tape and then painted cabinet back to the original yellow (or close enough)

scra-cab-b4.jpg
scra-cab-after.jpg
Blue masking tape applied to the STERN sideart
Cabinet painted Sun Yellow and masking tape is removed


scra-cab-front-painted.jpg

I know..I know..i painted the T-molding, but I need to replace it anyway, so I wasn't too worried about it.


Sept 27, 2009:
Taped week-old yellow paint in order to paint in the stenciled "STERN" sideart.

stencil taped.jpg stencil taped and painted.jpg stencil complete.jpg

The cabinet is by no means perfect but it at least looks like a scramble cab!  Just waiting to fix the harness (which I just recently noticed that the actual 36pin connector has been snipped off) and I await the correct monitor for this cab.

Oct 16, 2009
Restoration of power block:

powerblock_restoration.jpg

Now to install the Power Supply Board

ps-pb.jpg

And power is in place.   Next is the harness edge connector.




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