After seeing the pics of the really nice Aero Tables here, I decided to try and get one. Saw one on ebay that had already ended. So I contacted the seller and it turned out to be Ken@thegameroom. All he had left was 2 really bad shape tables. He sent me 2 pics and I asked as many questions as possible. I picked the one in better shape and he threw in the other one for nothing. He also got me a refurbished 26" Nanao but it doesnt seem to be very nice. It has some small chips in it and the colors and sync look bad even after tryng to adjust them. The tables arrived and I must say they look really bad. I was hoping to make one good one out of the 2. Now Im not so sure. I need to strip them apart and see how bad the rust really is.
Ddp arrived at my work at the same time as the tables. Its my second jamma board the first being Ibara. As Ibara cost me more this was my only choice. You are right about the spider.
They're a bit rough - but the one I restored from Tony's final Killercabs order wasn't much better.
Strip them down to individual panels, remove any bodged repairs & send all the blue bits off together. Get them sand-blasted back to bare metal and powdercoated a nice dark blue. Then do the same for the white parts.
Do them seperately as it prevents them mixing them up like they did with mine.
CP's are standard Aero fit and there are plenty on YAJ so its probably easier to source replacements from their using SMJ/Celega or akib' shop.
If the worst comes to the worst - stick a big LCD panel and one of those 60-in-1 PCB's into one and sell it on ebay keeping all the internals for the other, That should raise enough funds to pay for the powdercoating.
cools wrote:Didn't you have trouble with the panels warping from the powdercoating process?
They were a bit heavy handed with the sand blasting on the PCB door (which was badly rusted) and it came back bowed & the PSU cover came back twisted - all the major panels were fine.
the only issues I have had with powdercoating are - it made the doors tight so I had to sand the edges to stop them sticking.
Hahaa! Those are so ugly You have to at least restore one of them fully!
After seeing the amazing restore job on your Uni/Net that you did, taking on the restoration this should be a breeze for you man And something as obscure as an Aero table - that will be so worth the effort! So - cosmetics aside, there aren't any missing pieces at least right?
And yeah dude - pleeeease don't use DoDonPachi to test - Hell, if you need a test board, I'm sure I have a Guardians Of The Hood or something you can just have for free
Saw one on ebay that had already ended. So I contacted the seller and it turned out to be Ken@thegameroom. All he had left was 2 really bad shape tables. He sent me 2 pics and I asked as many questions as possible. I picked the one in better shape and he threw in the other one for nothing. He also got me a refurbished 26" Nanao but it doesnt seem to be very nice. It has some small chips in it and the colors and sync look bad even after tryng to adjust them. The tables arrived and I must say they look really bad. I was hoping to make one good one out of the 2. Now Im not so sure. 
I need to strip them apart and see how bad the rust really is. 
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