2 x Egret II - 21 Day Lockdown Restore Log (99% complete)

[Lazyace]

He's made my Egrets look pants!

Yeah, yours are crap mate, leave them outside for the council to collect

Mine wouldn't look anywhere near as good without your encouragement.

[Lazyace]

Wow, amazing restore so far! I love these threads

What games will be going in these? Looking forward to the finished results.

Sadly I have no money for boards anymore and I sold all mine in the early 2000s before prices rocketed. So I've made 2 GroovyMAME machines with custom Egret 2 pink themes for Attract Mode One will be vert and one will be hori. The machiens are all sorted and monitors tuned to each machine as despite using identical components and GPUs, the Radeons output different images so had to be individually tweaked.

[Lazyace]

OMG, you're going all the way and beyond on this. Respect!

Thank you mate. Your stickers will help!

[Lazyace]

Day 12
The platers dropped these back for me - wow, big difference! Final bits went off for plating. I also used Emphatic's excellent monitor guide :http://www.emphatic.se/?p=710 to tweak the first MS9 for a fantastic picture.

So what would I need to ask a plating company for to get this kind of finish?

This is zinc plating, same as what it was originally plated with. I platers also sprayed a lacquer afterwards for me to prolong life. It isn't quite as durable as nickel or chrome, but is about a 10th of the cost. For example the plating will cost around £70ish for everything, polished nickel was almost £600.

[neogeomeister]

Have you use Novus 2 and than Novus 1 to clean the Monitor ?

[Lazyace]

Have you use Novus 2 and than Novus 1 to clean the Monitor ?

Nope. Wasn't harsh enough to remove the coating. Novus 3 works a treat.

[Dache]

Sadly I have no money for boards anymore and I sold all mine in the early 2000s before prices rocketed. So I've made 2 GroovyMAME machines with custom Egret 2 pink themes for Attract Mode One will be vert and one will be hori. The machiens are all sorted and monitors tuned to each machine as despite using identical components and GPUs, the Radeons output different images so had to be individually tweaked.

That's a great idea. I'd love to have real hardware in as any cases as possible, but it's getting less and less feasible as times goes on and having two cabs like that sounds like one of the best ways to go about it for maximum playability. Jealous! I probably faff about and change games too many times for real hardware anyway. If I had more money, time and space though, as always

[monouchi]

Looks amazing, and those were some seriously rough cabs you started with. Awesome work.

[Lazyace]

Looks amazing, and those were some seriously rough cabs you started with. Awesome work.

Thanks mate. Finish line is in sight now. Next update should be when the bases are dropped back to me next week!

[mRCaESaR]

Awesome job so far! I'm jealous of the egrets! It'd be so nice to have in the collection, it's just a really high premium to pay for here in AU

[Lazyace]

Painting update

[emphatic]

The SANWA mounting plates, are they the ones that are supplied with the EGRET II? I've never seen those in any shops.

To the right:
https://images.app.goo.gl/nsr3gJFu789RtJp67

[monouchi]

The SANWA mounting plates, are they the ones that are supplied with the EGRET II? I've never seen those in any shops.

To the right:
https://images.app.goo.gl/nsr3gJFu789RtJp67

Yes, comes with E2/E3 panels. As you said, never seen them in any shop.

[Lazyace]

The SANWA mounting plates, are they the ones that are supplied with the EGRET II? I've never seen those in any shops.

To the right:
https://images.app.goo.gl/nsr3gJFu789RtJp67

Yes they do. Don't arcadeworld sell them? https://www.arcadeworlduk.com/products/ ... Plate.html go to the drop down menu. It's the second plate, no? They are just OOS at the moment.

[monouchi]

No, thats not the correct plate.
Long time since I was hunting mounting plates but I think its a Taito plate that you have to order from them, its included in the E2/E3 manual.

[emphatic]

Someone should do a replica of the TAITO ones. Essential for mounting SANWA JLF at the optimal height.

[Lazyace]

Someone should do a replica of the TAITO ones. Essential for mounting SANWA JLF at the optimal height.

Not sure they would be compatible with Alberto's repro panels as he has a mounting plate soldered on.

[emphatic]

Well, I have Alberto panels, and use these plates for my JLFs.

[cools]

This any use? I only have one though.

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[MDK]

If your using an Alberto panel then I think you'll need a flat JLF mounting plate unless his Egret panels use studded mounts. If you use the reverse S Taito plate I'm pretty sure the stick will be mounted way too low.