Here is a TX Sector that I came across early last month outside a small Indiana town storage unit. They had been in storage for about 12 yrs. To get TX I had to purchase the other 3 games that were with it. A Bally hardbody, Williams Pat hand and a Sega Harley Davidson sit down arcade. The price was right and I was quick enough to be the first to say ill take’em.

The guy had bought them with the intentions of fixing them up and routing them but never got to it. So they set there for yrs taking up space and money.

I have sold the other 3 games with the Hardbody 1st to go. It had no pf glass and no backglass. It had a layer of dirt and sawdust on it but it worked. The Harley went next and then Pat hand. So as it worked out, I have a TX Sector for free. Hell yeah!!!!

It does have its issues, no translite, no speaker panel or display. It does work, lights up and goes into attract mode anyway. Cabinet is in great shape and so is the PF. So thats a plus. I will posting my progress on it to get it back to what it needs to be. And am very excited to get it next to my Robowar. What a pair for the game room.

Lets go.

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I have started the tear down, cleaning and the buying of new parts. Im reusing the posts and the pop bodies, they are cleaning up real nice. For all the hard plastic stuff i soak them in some purple Zep and then rinse off.

All new decals, pop caps and skirts from PBR. Titan rubbers. Comet leds and flashers.

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The plastics are pretty yellowed so hopefully those clean up nice. Ive looked for a repo set with no luck.

I have been looking for a tx speaker panel with no luck. I did find a Robowar panel from PBR. Very similar but it has the wrong color text. TX has red text and Robowar has yellow. I can deal with the color difference but hopefully i can find a original or repo one.

Boston pinball came through with a new display for the TX, this display has slightly larger numbers but will look good I think.

PF looks pretty good all tore down. Pretty dirty but In really good shape with no wear spots. Mylar covering the the whole mid PF and around the pops. You can see the hazing from the lifted mylar at the inserts, not sure this is goin to work for me. Shining a light from underneath shows the insert nicely but I dont like the looks of it.

The mylar has got to go.

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Severe hazing on the center PF inserts. Very nerve racking starting to pull the mylar knowing things could go terribly wrong. I started with the pops and all was good.

After the pops i had a go at the right upper tele port area. Those 4 inserts were raised up just a tad. If at any time i started to get paint, I was prepared to cut my lose and make the best of what i had. Razor blade off what i had pulled up and stop. That wasnt the case though. Slow and steady with minimal pulling pressure and my heat gun keeping a good consistent temp at the area being pulled on.

The entire sheet of mylar came off without pulling any paint. Very very lucky.

Goo gone and my amazon plastic razor blade set, all the glue came off with no problem.

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Tele port inserts were raised up just a tad. Have to make them flush before putting the first coat of clear down.

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1st can of spraymax down. Let it cure for a few days then to do some touch ups on a few of the circles around the inserts. Also fill and paint some of the places where the plywood came up while removing the wire guides.

All in all off to a good start.

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Awesome. Looks good. Thanks for the heads up.

Next on the list is to start getting a game plan for the speaker/display panel. I would like to find acouple used harnesses for thisif anyone has some they are willing to get rid of, but am fine with using new connectors. The only one i cant find is the card edge 19 pin connector for the display. I am in need of this connector or if anyone has a suggestion on alternative.

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Last coat of clear applied yesterday. Wait a few days then do a wet sand and buff. Looks really good. Pretty pumped about it. After this Tx is all done I may have to do the Robowar.

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Its been good so far. All the hardware has been tumbled, posts have been soaked and cleaned. New translite on its way. Its goin to come together pretty quick.

Got my new translite in today.

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Wet sand and buff.

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I agree. The alt translite looks cool but i dont think it fits with the rest of the game.

Are you referring to when you coin up the game?

I will be using a robowar speaker panel cause I cant find a TX panel. We did some measuring and the display that Boston has, the digits will be about a quarter inch to long for the TX display window. They will fit the robowar window.

Starting to repopulate the PF.

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Hey guys, i will probably have to make the harness for the speakers and display but if anyone knows where i could get one that would be appreciated.

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Playfield is all back together, still need to install the drops. Those are getting taken apart, cleaned with new targets and decals.

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Repined A1J6. It had several flat pins that weren’t making contact with the board.

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Replaced Q18 and Q20 which are the right ramp chaser lamps. Q18 actually started smoking when I had it setting in attract.

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Well today i start the harness for the display/speaker panel.

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Well here is about 5 hrs of connector work. Turned out real nice and it even works. Thanks to RDBowers for the hook up with the connectors. They are a perfect upgrade to the obsolete edge connectors. I highly recommend.

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Yesterday I tackled the display and speaker panel along with fabbing up new display brackets. All went pretty well and am happy how it all turned out.

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The already finished bracket is from my Robowar. I had taken the panel out when i was doing the harness and to get all the dimensions for the TX. Overall pretty damn good.

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Today the package all came together. Pretty pumped the way it has all come together. To find a machine only 20 minutes away that been stored and forgotten about. From a complete tear down of the top side to clean and clearcoat. To finding all the vital parts and hard work to make it operable again. To a awesome machine that will be around for a long time to come.

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