Sega Astro City - some things you may not know!!

[chubsta]

I'm sure you already know that Sega Astro's are too big to go through a normal doorway, and that you have to split them in 2 in order to move them around the house. I actually didnt know this until my new one turned up this morning. And I didnt know how much hassle they are to split in 2...

Still, I've learned those things now and 3 other things i have learned are ....

1. When you have split them, the main section housing the monitor looks like it should be able to stand upright on its own. This is a lie, at the first opportunity it will fall forward and crash onto the door-frame, only stopping itself from falling completely over by breaking its fall with the monitor screen itself...



2. A doorway is softer than a Sega Astro monitor screen (thank God)...



3. It's never going to leave this room!!



Unfortunately I cant test to make sure everything works because i dont have a game board i could try with it, but i guess it should be ok - fingers crossed

[DarthBoMan]

Good thing astros have a nice and hard CRT then

[LoRez]

Astro/New astro will go through most doorways if you remove the door stop from the sides of the frame-the thin strip of wood shown in the photo next to the crash site.This will give you about 5mm to spare and is easy to refit once the beast is in

[chubsta]

Update - looks like i managed to **** the monitor

[Flazh]

Looks fairly fixable. Isn't that the vertical deflection that needs re-connecting?

[chubsta]

Looks fairly fixable. Isn't that the vertical deflection that needs re-connecting?

it was fixable fortunately - i hadnt reconnected the remote adjustment board

[j69]

If you have a strong back it only take an exra 60 seconds to undo the 4 bolts and take the monitor out. Makes manouvering it a whole lot easier!!!!

Now sell me that cocktail

[Mr-Megalo]

check you have the monitor remote board plugged in, looks like you have not got it plugged into the chassis to me

that cab in the past month/6 weeks has had a replacement monitor chassis, tube line filter and PSU

edit

Looks fairly fixable. Isn't that the vertical deflection that needs re-connecting?

it was fixable fortunately - i hadnt reconnected the remote adjustment board

missed that bit

[chubsta]

check you have the monitor remote board plugged in, looks like you have not got it plugged into the chassis to me

that cab in the past month/6 weeks has had a replacement monitor chassis, tube line filter and PSU

Yeah, seems everyone knew it would be that cept for me
When Joe brought it round he gave me a demo so i knew it was 100% when i bought it, can you imagine how gutted i felt when i thought i had dropped it within an hour of buying it?!!

[joeblade]

Crikey fella....im gone a couple of hours and i miss all this!!!

Glad you got it sorted m8, enjoy the cab....(in it's final resting place FOREVAARRRRRR!!)

[chubsta]

Crikey fella....im gone a couple of hours and i miss all this!!!

Glad you got it sorted m8, enjoy the cab....(in it's final resting place FOREVAARRRRRR!!)

Yeah, i was a little bit stressed for a while - cheers for all your help getting it in and stuff, im made up with it!

[poodude]

That's hilarious! I'm glad it worked out. I had to remove all the trim from the door to get mine through.

Whats that lil' cab called to the left of the astro? I've never seen that before.

[chubsta]

Whats that lil' cab called to the left of the astro? I've never seen that before.

The small cab is Sega Mushiking cabinet that i fitted a new CP to and converted for use with mame. the origional game uses swipe cards to battle beetles against each other - youve got to love those crazy japanese!

[mainman]

I might be moving and will need to dis assemble my astro because I had to take the front door down to get it in this place and might not have the same option at the new place

[chubsta]

I might be moving and will need to dis assemble my astro because I had to take the front door down to get it in this place and might not have the same option at the new place

in retrospect i would have no problem moving this thing now - it came apart and went back together very easily, and next time i will remove the monitor from the cabinet as well just to make things very easy. I guess last time i just didnt have a clue what to do and didnt think enough befor i did it - i was too excited and just wanted to get the damn thing up and running!

certainly wouldnt start taking doors out etc