RE: VECTOR: Black Widow CPO differences?

Ep.. Mine is a proto.

What you have there is what I believe is an early one. The earlier ones
seem to be all blue in the instruction boxes. Later ones seemed to have
the green and orange boxes. And for that matter I may have even seen one
with a blue and an orange box IIRC.

Regardless there are definitely some variation in the production CPO's.
I would think with the repros that the all blue ones like you have there
are more uncommon.

The CPO's may have been different between the dedicated games and the
conversions. IMHO, the all blue box ones were from the dedicated
machines, unless someone knows different?

JB

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve P.
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 11:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Black Widow CPO differences?

Tom-

Thanks, I did search a bit and did come across Joe Bachmann's page - his
is 
different though - look at the "web" ring colors on his vs. mine - 
completely different.

-Steve P.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom McClintock" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Black Widow CPO differences?


>
http://joesarcade.com/games/Black%20Widow%20Marquees/black_widow_marquee
.htm
>
>
>
> Steve P. wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I recently picked up a bare Black Widow control panel (well, no
sticks, 
>> and no buttons, but the wiring was intact).  Anyhow, the overlay at
the 
>> time of purchase had several globs of what looked like paint on it so
I 
>> figured I'd grab a replacement overlay and restore the CP all of the
way 
>> before installing it.  The repro overlay arrived yesterday and looks 
>> stunning.
>>
>> The only problem that I have is that my control panel overlay varies
a 
>> bit from the repro.
>>
>> 1. The instruction box on the right side on my control panel is blue.

>> The same instruction box on the repro is green.
>>
>> 2. The web grid "rings" on my overlay are also different from the
repro. 
>> It has the following ring colors (from outer edge inward):
>>
>> blue, pink, orange, blue, blue, pink, yellow, blue, blue, pink
orange.
>>
>> the repro has:
>>
>> purple, pink, orange, blue, purple, pink, yellow, green, purple,
pink, 
>> orange
>>
>>
>> Any ideas on why the color differences?  I pulled out pics of the
Black 
>> Widow I owned back in '96 and it had the normal green in the overlay
the 
>> same as the repro and the ring coloring is the same as the repro..  I
am 
>> stumped.  It does not appear to be caused by fading either.
>>
>> Here are some pics.  Notice that the paint globs are gone from the
used 
>> control panel, I was able to get the paint off by using a small brass

>> wire brush.   :)
>>
>> http://set-in-led.0catch.com/misc/bw-cp-front.jpg
>> http://set-in-led.0catch.com/misc/bw-cp-rear.jpg
>> http://set-in-led.0catch.com/misc/bw-tag.jpg
>> http://set-in-led.0catch.com/misc/bw-overlay.jpg
>>
>> Input would be appreciated.
>>
>> -Steve P.
>>
>>
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