Made a start on the Centaur 2 this week. So far have spent over 12hrs working on it. Good project machine, but not one for the inexperienced or novice.
Won't bore people with too many pics. Will post most pics when I start on the cosmetics. The majority of my time will be spent repairing previous restro work. Someone has repainted the entire cabinet by paint brush
(had way too much time on their hands), if they hadn't used high gloss black it would of been a decent job. The other bad part is that they used the same black paint on the playfield for touchups, I hope it's not enamel.
I haven't decided how far I'm going to take this machine as far as a restro goes. At the moment I'm concentrating on just getting it up and running, that's a major effort in itself.
So far have rebuilt the power supply. New fuse holders, bridges, diodes, resistor, varistor, correct fuses installed, fixed previous repairs.
Repaired the lamp driver board, it was missing about half of it's parts.
Modified the MPU, it was actually a baby packman and would never of worked in this machine. Now also jumpered to use 2732 roms. Cleaned up battery corrosion.
Have also fixed several wiring shorts in the main cabinet.
Still need to rebuild the squawk and talk board, has resistors instead of pots, also most of the caps have been replaced with wrong value ones. (this should be an interesting one to work on).
Solenoid driver board needs usual repairs and upgrades.
