Hmmm... Thanks for the encouragement. Everyone I've talked to about it has the same DIY attitude, but I'm worried about destroying a piece of history. There is a guy who had a four day crash course in all you needed to know about fixing these monsters. I really wanted to take his course, but he never seems to make it up to the frontier.

I'll take a look at Patrick's tuner stuff... and maybe practice on some old junk. The only soldering I've done was trying to keep my old 1984 boom box working using the stylus from a wood burning kit!

And just to try and get this thread back on track... Those of you wanting a MAME cabinet might want to look into some thing like this smaller model. I have four full sized cabinets and I'm starting to wish I had gone the "cocktail" route...

EDIT: oh man... I hadn't seen the latest price on that pre-built. when i first looked it was only $750 for the base model.