Here is the ugly duckling..

It’s up on a dolly so I can move it around.

The cabinet is really beat up at the bottom.

I can repair the sides pretty easily.  I was going to replace the front – except it has the cabinet serial# imprinted on it.  I’d like to retain it..  but we will see how easily I can get the panels apart.

The board set on the other hand is in excellent condition.  A to A+ just looking at it.  I’m told it works perfectly – but I haven’t tried it yet.   The boards were mounted in a Sinistar cabinet up under the monitor board face down.   The entire original wiring harness was also in the Sinistar cabinet – door interlock switches, all of it!  The owner made a clamp-on removable control panel with the Joust controls.  When he wanted to use Joust – he clamped on the control panel, connected it to the Joust harness through the coin door and swapped the video cable at the monitor.  It was two complete games in a single cabinet.

First Observations:

• Cabinet, Monitor and power supply are all the same serial number
• All of the system boards are the same serial number too..  Just a different one
• Monitor works – but has Silkworm burn in and the colors are pretty flabby..  I’ll recap it first and look for a potential tube swap
• Control panel is the original joust panel – but with many extra holes
• Control panel wiring harness is a bit of a mess
• Coin door can be restored to look new
• Marquee and bezel missing
• Did Williams really solder all of their connections vs. using wire connectors?

First step is to strip down the cabinet and repair the shattered plywood….