This is something you don't see every day, not in Australia anyway. A project cabinet which I picked up, mainly because I've never seen one here.

It's not from here, originally. It's not from Japan, USA or China either. Any guesses?

It's a Silverline arcade machine which was apparently quite common in the UK in the '90s but probably never officially exported here. It's a generic, JAMMA wired cabinet, intended to accommodate any 'standard' JAMMA PCB.

With a 20" CRT monitor and a control panel typically supplied as a 2 player, 3 button layout it's quite compact while a larger version with 26" monitor was also made. This one appears to have been modified with six buttons per player for fighting games, the layout looks a little awkward though compared to larger cabinets.

At first glance it seems in pretty good condition with only a few bumps and scrapes. The original, glass marquee and bezel are present and intact. The Mars ME111 coin mech and matching credit PCB are there and still labelled for UK currency, not having been operated commercially here.

Putting it in the van, the water damage to the plinth becomes obvious - amazing the machine was still standing up straight. MDF was obviously a very poor choice of material for this section, fortunately the entire plinth can be fairly easily removed and re-made using something more suitable.

Thankfully, the cabinet side panels are not bad, a little spreading at the bottom which should be corrected with a bit of glueing, clamping and re-cutting the T moulding grooves.

The back door panel is also a bit swollen at the bottom, having been left off and resting on wet ground at some point. It's not a write-off and with matching finish to the rest of the cabinet it's worth saving. I'll trim the bottom edge and refit the guide strip, also trimming a bit off the thickness on the inside only, at the bottom so it sits in its recess a little better. It will overhang slightly on the outside but it won't be too obvious and it's on the back, after all.

The key to the cash box area is missing so if I can't pick it I'll drill that out and replace the lock, either way.

The monitor works, JAMMA wiring is all there, it's just missing the arcade PSU as it had been running a PC with MAME via a JAMMA adaptor. Looks like the JAMMA power wires are still there, they had just been taped off when the PSU was not required.

It has an interesting feature, the control panel is attached to a pull out shelf which the game board can be mounted to so the control panel can hinge down and slide out to gain access to or replace the game PCB.

To be continued...

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