{"id":389,"date":"2008-08-17T21:42:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T05:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=389"},"modified":"2008-08-17T23:09:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T07:09:33","slug":"restoring-tron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/08\/restoring-tron\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring TRON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s where I document the restoration of my TRON cabinet, a time honored tradition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffsgames.com\/archives\/category\/arcade-games\/tron\/\">shared<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zinfer.com\/tron.htm\">by<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/peterhirschberg.com\/arcade\/tronrestore.htm\">many<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csh.rit.edu\/~jerry\/arcade\/tron\/\">other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/tonysarcade\/tron_restoration.htm\">owners<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astralbase.com\/arcade\/tron\/default.asp\">across<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~rescuetron\/\">the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/civitat\/Tron\/tron.html\">internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I intend to strip down the entire machine, repair and paint the cabinet, replace all artwork, and clean up and fix any mechanical or wiring issues that remain. When I&#8217;m done, this TRON should be damn close to like-new condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3055\/2764982174_a4c66f2418.jpg\" alt=\"TRON and Cyberball cabinets\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Cyberball is next, but that one is gonna be a bit more of a challenge)<\/p>\n<p>I began the teardown this weekend, removed most of the fixtures and exterior bits, and sanded and repainted half the brackets. Discharging the monitor, something I&#8217;ve honestly been dreading for years, was a nonevent, and I&#8217;ll be pulling that and the boards out next.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll list out my parts purchases as I go, partly with the intention of tracking how much I really end up sinking into this, and partly to make things easier for the next poor soul who wanders by with a restoration project.<\/p>\n<p>Initial parts orders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mamemarquees.com\/tron-rear-screen-p-1152.html\">Rear screen art<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/t-molding.com\/store\/product.php?productid=20&#038;cat=4&#038;page=1\">T-molding<\/a> (40 ft)<\/li>\n<li>4 <a href=\"http:\/\/bulbster.com\/lightbulbs\/f15t8cw-p-1211.html\">f15t8\/cw fluorescent lamps<\/a> (2 spares)<\/li>\n<li>2 <a href=\"http:\/\/bulbster.com\/lightbulbs\/f15t8bl-p-1214.html\">f15t8\/bl fluorescent lamps<\/a> (very nice price, 1 spare)<\/li>\n<li>2 <a href=\"http:\/\/bulbster.com\/lightbulbs\/f15t8blb-p-1215.html\">f15t8\/blb fluorescent lamps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=280252536028\">Polaris 651 High Voltage Probe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s where I document the restoration of my TRON cabinet, a time honored tradition shared by many other owners across the internet. I intend to strip down the entire machine, repair and paint the cabinet, replace all artwork, and clean up and fix any mechanical or wiring issues that remain. When I&#8217;m done, this TRON [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,38,55],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcade","category-crap-i-buy","category-restoration","tag-tron"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}