New addition

Going to pick up a Space Invaders project tomorrow... down in St Louis, which means... WHITE CASTLES! Mmmmmm time to pick up a crave case...
Got a decent deal on it, pics look good, but who knows what it really looks like in person. I figure for what I paid, worst case scenario, I can part it out (if it's reaally bad, and get what I paid for it back (and maybe enough to cover the gas and sliders)... Seller is throwing in two spare board sets.
couple pics...

monitor issues:

All in all it looks like it could be a good deal. I'll try to put up more pics tomorrow night (and update the main website)

Apparently the Milwaukee auction was a bust... hoping that the Belleville auction doesn't suffer the same fate (well at least there's brewmania if it is...)

Hope to have some update pics of the game room online soon... still working out there when I can (when it ain't colder than the proverbial thaumaturgic mammary in a form-fitting bodice of metal)

No real updates, progress on the gameroom

Well, with fall (winter) setting in, we've lucked out and had a couple of relatively mild weekends the past few weeks, so I was able to get the rest of the insulation installed on the walls, and get the ceiling done and insulated. I'll be posting pics on my ArcadeCrusade page soon. Other than that, not a whole lot going on. I got some keychains made up from KLOV and Arcade-Collectors.com poster OldTymeToys, you can read all about that here there are also pics of the keychains up on my ArcadeCrusade page...
Even though all of my projects are currently on hold, I have done a little work to the jukebox, and I'm waiting for a copy of the manual to arrive to work on the CD player. Still hope to get that working soon.

Auction Results posted, misc crap, more posts coming

Well the 10/10 Belleville auction results are up in the results page, and while it was still a relatively crappy auction, it was an improvement over the last one... so I think I'll still keep going as long as they continue to get better and not worse... This one even had a bit of a "dead row" which is a bargain hunters dream IMHO....
Anyhow, came close to picking up a few things to get outbid at the last minute again, however I did win another jukebox, bringing my juke total to 3... Why buy another juke? Well there's 2 reasons really... First, it was the box I originally wanted to get, the one that plays both CD's and 45's (100 "45's" + a 6 cd changer) AMI Rowe R-92+cd. the second reason is that I picked it up almost full (80 out of the 100 records) mostly working and for the price of $20.
Pics here
I got it home, and the 6 disc player wasn't working, but I just happen to have another 6 disk that was virtually the same model as the one in the unit, so I swapped them out. Now I have a working cd player that the juke controls, but I'm not getting any sound from it, so let the troubleshooting begin. Other than a few adjustments to the tone arm and probably a new needle, the record part seems to work OK... I am concerned with getting no audio from the CD changer, hoping there isn't any amp issues, I will be ordering the manual soon.

In other news, I did throw a 48-1 board in that old Galaxy Games multi... just have a few more things to do to it (new glass art, a couple of cam locks), and to get some real cpo material (threw on some crappy contact paper material I had laying around for the time being) before I'll call it done, but it's getting pretty close. Pics of that project here

Also building a 60-1 with trackball upright, that I'll probably sell. They still seem to be bringing in a decent amount of money so maybe it will help fund some projects that have been on the back burner for a while...

Gameroom construction is slow but steady, hopefully I'll be able to start making progress on it soon as I would still like to get it done this year... It's already cold out though so any thoughts of having nice fall weather to work on it are shot to hell...

That's all I have for now, sorry for the lack of updates lately.

Gameroom progress

Well, I got the windows in the gameroom, took a little longer than expected. Pics below...
Still have a lot of work to do while the weather is nice. Basically I have to fill in one window, put up the trim around another window, new entry door, frame up walls, insulate, run electrical, drywall, paint, decorate and move games in... So probably around 2012 I should be ready for an arcade throwdown ;)

Anyhow here's a pic of the front...

Still need to paint the trim around the front window, and put up and paint the trim around another window on the side, hopefully I'll get that done this weekend, along with getting the corners framed up and ready for insulation/drywall...

More progress pics available at my ArcadeCrusade Photo gallery
In other news, there was a chat on Wed night at CoinOpSpace, sounds like it may become a weekly thing, no "Celebrities" this time, just a bunch of gamers hanging out... 9:30pm Eastern time on Wednesdays...
Hopefully I'll have more progress pictures up after this weekend...

Weekly update 4/19/09

Sadly, my last komputer went kaput and I was unable to get the new board up and running in time for the Wiebe chat, so I can't tell you how that went... Fortunately, it looks like the good folks over at CoSp are going to submit the chat transcript to GameRoom Magazine to be published in the near future. Speaking of which, I received my first issue of the magazine and absolutely love it. You can check it out at www.gameroommagazine.com

Well I have the new MoBo up and running now, just waiting on my new monitor, as my old monitor decided it wanted to crap out about a week before the MoBo did. All in All, not a good couple of weeks in the world of JC :(
Things are looking up though, new MoBo is crankin and new monitor should be here early this week. In the meantime, on a crappy rainy cold Sunday, I decided to revamp the website a bit, so if any of the links are broken, please be patient, it will all be fixed in time :)
Also wanted to add that I posted my Ardac C-Series Change Machine conversion on the site in case anyone with a similar machine was looking to do the same modification, or if anyone was looking for a low cost token dispenser. To me it helps keep the whole authentic arcade ambiance thing going... plus, it sure beats having a bucket of tokens laying around IMHO :)
Started the cleaning process that is going to be the last thing I need to do before remodeling the "workshop" into the "Arcade Room." There's a lot of crap out there that just has to go. I'll be posting the "Before" pictures soon... hopefully it won't take too long before I have "After" pics.

That's about all for right now...