Nintendo M82 Restoration Project

[k1ngarth3r]

Control Panel Pictures

[k1ngarth3r]

Does anyone know who could recreate this piece of metal work?

Can anyone recommend anyone in the East Midlands area?

[k1ngarth3r]

Excellent news today, I have found a local company who can recreate the control panel and arranging for someone who owns a M82 to come to me so we can get the control panel recreated

I'm still going the AutoCAD route incase the meet falls through as the company can work from an AutoCAD drawing also.

[geotrig]

excellent stuff dude

[FrancoB]

Glad to hear you've found somewhere

To draw that I would need to have it in front of me to take dimensions from I'm afraid.

Your best bet would be to take the item to the fabricators for them to copy/work from.

[k1ngarth3r]

Indeed, It was fantastic news - I rough quote was between £40-£100 (Depending on what type of metal and finish).

They only need the original for about 5-10 minutes and then they can re-create it.

Any drawings I get from them I will upload, along with the company details and prices incase anyone else needs to get one made up.

[FrancoB]

Sounds like a great price range considering the work involved

Will look forward to seeing the results

[crunchywasp]

Wow, that is a great price, even at the top end

I'm also looking forward to seeing the outcome and further progress.

[k1ngarth3r]

I was surprised also, but mainly relieved

I've arranged to get this done hopefully 26th June! So a bit of a wait (having to arrange a time when another M82 owner can get to mine).

In the meantime, I just need to clean everything I have, possibly replace the cap on the RF box to try and improve picture quality and wire up the new rotary switch!

Fingers crossed on 26th June the restore will be complete

Edit:

Also could do with 12 loose NES games to populate it, if anyone's got some going cheap

[crunchywasp]

Ace

I'd happily donate a couple of NES games to the cause! PM me your details please and I'll send a couple your way when I get back. I'm not saying they'll be great but they'll fill a slot or two

[k1ngarth3r]

Ace

I'd happily donate a couple of NES games to the cause! PM me your details please and I'll send a couple your way when I get back. I'm not saying they'll be great but they'll fill a slot or two

That's awesome mate, very kind any games in there is better than no games

[tetsujin]

Are you still trying to get rid of Top Gun Mark?! Haha

[crunchywasp]

it's the gem of my collection

any games in there is better than no games

...except Top Gun - it's a real turd Glad I can help mate.

[emphatic]

The re-creating of the panel sounds very nice, very cool of them to include a copy of the drawings in the price too. And great work on everything else too!

[k1ngarth3r]

Some more control panel pictures for reference:

[k1ngarth3r]

The re-creating of the panel sounds very nice, very cool of them to include a copy of the drawings in the price too. And great work on everything else too!

Cheers mate, I hope they can include a copy of the drawings - I can ask, don't know for sure yet but will share if they do

[k1ngarth3r]

Today I'm trying to wire up the new rotary switch, any help appreciated

I think this is the original Rotary Switch including the wiring info (which seems far more complicated than it needs to be).

RTA Series
Part Number: RTAC41S04M25NS

http://www.ck-components.com/13394/rta_15jan.pdf/

Here's some poor images of the original rotary switch



This image shows the original wiring




Using the new rotary switch diagram I will draw on where I think the five connectors should go

There should only be 4 positions

* 30 Seconds (Green)
* 2 Minutes (Brown)
* 6 Minutes (Red)
* 128 Minutes (Yellow)
* Ground (Orange)

So I assume the 5th is ground?

[k1ngarth3r]

This is what I think it should look like - but could have it backwards!

[StandardDeluxe]

So there's no way to remove the time limits? You can only experience TopGun for just over two hours before it resets?

[crunchywasp]

TopGun for just over two hours

The horror