From France with love…

This is my 5th Zaccaria’s cab. Actually I already have a Head on and a Twin cocktail with Crash (Head On) / Intruder (Space Invaders) but this cab is very nice and I wanted to save it from that warehouse 🙂 This are some details. Unfortunately I had no enough space to take pics of the entire cab.

Control Panel (1) – Cleaning and disassembling

Here is the CP. It was very dirty but not so much damages under the dust.  Joystick was rusted and CPO had some cigarettes burns.

 
Disassembling all parts I could see part of the CPO art was damaged and I used acrylic colors. The wood had some scratches and I found a spray with a very similar blue.

 

Control panel (2) – Restoring colors

Then I used acrylic colors for the overlay and spray for the wood.

     

Control panel (3) – Behind

Nothing peculiar behind the CP, please note the diodes on the leaf switches; they indicate controls are managed as matrix.

Control panel (4) – Joystick

Joystick has been cleaned in all its parts and the rust has been removed.

Control panel (5) – Reassembling

As last step I removed some burns with an abrasive sponge and I put a protection behind the overlay in order to avoid the paint has a direct contact with the wood.

Coin door

Coin door was dirty and rusted but not dramatically, so in a couple of hours I could do the job.

Monitor

The mounted monitor is an Hantarex MT1. Not working obviously… I changed the fuse and I immediately recapped it but I had no changes. Then I changed the power transistor and the 2 other transistors on the H and V and now the monitor works. Before proceeding with monitor and board I want to finish the cab 🙂 Transistor replaced: TR6: BF460 TR10: 2N3055 TR19: BU606D  

Base

Cabinet base was missing. When I restored my EYES I saw the base was structurally the same for all other zac cabs; some times smaller, some times bigger. In this case it’s smaller: 60cm x 61.5cm so I used the draft I made in the past to build the missing parts. Each job needs the right tools…

This is the draft I made


First of all I cut all parts


I don’t want to bore you with all details you can already find here in my EYES restoration thread.


I used the same wheels I have under my Astro Wars so both cabs have the same height.


That’s all.

Inside

Wasps lived here 🙂 the rest was dirty and rusted but not too much.

 
Power supply board was rusted in some points. I changed all caps (but not the big ones) and I replaced all regulators.


Now it seems to be new…


As usual I replaced the fuses


and the power switch (I always replace the existing one with  a bipolar switch)


Now it is more acceptable; isn’t it?

Behind the cab and Back panel

Easy job for the dark side of the cab 🙂

 
Just cleaning and painting

   

PCB Troubleshooting

Aesthetically speaking the board was in good conditions


This is the sound daughter board


And this is the additional board for game dip switches


but once I powered on I could see some problems.


Actually the board was in RESET so I found the reset circuit on the schematics


and bypassed it through the J13 jumper


Once done, I realized the board had mainly graphic problems


In fact replacing rams I had results better and better

Once all RAMs were replaced I had a good screen but I though the game reset again after drawing the maze. Running the game on MAME I understood this game hasn’t an attract mode so it works! So I mounted the PCB in its cabinet in order to test I/O.

I/O have been tested following this schematic:


And I followed these instructions to set the game properly.


Now I can play 😀

Complete!

Here you can find some pics of the result