Another VCI Arcade completed without going to the machine shop!

[MisterMoleyMole]

get on it when your doing it just keep checking the hols with one of the buttons so that you get a nice snug fit, they should clip in.

[Midi Kids]

will do this looks like fun so yeah hehe should be entertaining to see how it all goes along

[fa5ky]

i finished mine last week and just finished installing new leds. Its not as hard as you think. it took me an hour or so to do all 8 of mine. I had a bigger file though.

When i was done though the feeling of relief and excitement was kind of overwhelming haha. Nothing beats the satisfaction of doing it your self.

[MisterMoleyMole]

what leds have you instaled ? new colours or fixing broken ones?

[fa5ky]

swapped out all the green with white and all the yellow with blue. It was alot easier then expected. took me about an hour to do all of them.

[loslosbaby]

I'm about a month away from buying my VCI and I think this post has encouraged me to go at it with a dremel... machine shop can rip it to shreds and hey, its all about saving the dough.

Awesome job man! Get some #300 sand paper and nobody will ever know you made it all escape-from-alcatraz-style!

G.

[timinya]

what i did was use a drill with a large drill bit first to open up most of the hole, then i used a $5 file and scraped away for bout an hour. Seriously, fuck paying shitloads of money when you can do it all at home. I didnt even use resistor thingys between the arcade buttons and the motherboard and i've had no trouble in the year i've had my VCI.

Piece of cake!

[loslosbaby]

Dig it. You might get some ground-looping, and a fierce hum if you don't put those diodes in there...let alone pick up buzzing and whatnot from your cell phone and other stuff in the booth too!

G.