repairing two drilled holes on coin door

[heinekenlvr]

Hey all,
picked up a Midway cocktail cab that I am restoring. Unfortunately as with most coin doors there are two unwanted holes that have been drilled on the front of the door. How can I fix these short of taking it somewhere to have them welded. Bondo? I read somewhere of someone doing a repair by filling the holes with solder and then grinding the repair smooth.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers.

[leapinlew]

Hey all,
picked up a Midway cocktail cab that I am restoring. Unfortunately as with most coin doors there are two unwanted holes that have been drilled on the front of the door. How can I fix these short of taking it somewhere to have them welded. Bondo? I read somewhere of someone doing a repair by filling the holes with solder and then grinding the repair smooth.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers.

How big are the holes? How about a painted smooth top carriage bolt?

[Radford119]

I just picked up a Nintendo cab that has a coin door with three holes about the size of a dime. They had been filled with bondo and from the outside it looked pretty good. I tried to knock the bondo out with a screwdriver just to test the strength of it and they didn't budge. I say try and bondo them, if you don't like the look of it just drill out the bondo and try something different. What's the worst that could happen?

[Thenasty]

ir depends on ho big the hole is. You can shove a wood dowl (is that how you speel it) and fill the rest with bondo and paint away. 

[Malenko]

super glue a quarter over the hole(s)

[bkenobi]

Leave it open and if anyone asks...it's a vent!

[Thenasty]

Leave it open and if anyone asks...it's a vent!

Why not just put a nice pic inside and make it a peak hole  

Or if you are adventureous, build some sort of a window that opens when a coin is inserted so they can see the pic  


something like this. A penny arcade

[Marsupial]

Bondo is meant for automotive body repair. Take some metal screen that they sell for the purpose, bondo it, sand smooth, paint with hammered paint.

I plan to do that on one of my over/under door. Shouldn't be too hard.

[bkenobi]

Actually, if you want arcade accurate...stick some bubble gum on it.  You might want to put some in the lock too for authenticity.

[DeLuSioNal29]

The best thing to do is to buy an electrical box with those metal slugs that they have on them.  Use metal bond to glue the metal slug on the back of the door.  (Acts like liquid weld).  Once it has set and is completely dry.  Use bondo to fill in the holes.  Sand smooth (use 220 grit on the final sanding, use 60 grit on the first sanding to grind it down faster).  Use Rustoleum hammered paint.  It won't even look like it's there when you are done!

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[Xiaou2]

If you dont want to mess with bondo,  you can use epoxy putty.  Not all of them are
made alike.  Personally, Ive found jbweld to be lacking... however, there is a brand called Quiksteel.  (dont be fooled by JBweld's  "Qwiksteel" )

 http://www.hemmingsdiy.co.uk/quickste.htm

 I used this stuff to repair a broken laptop assembly. (the white plastics version)

 Cures rock solid in minutes, and after it hardened... I tried to scratch it with a nail to see how strong it was.  Couldnt make an imprint, even with very hard pressure.

 The stuff is amazing.

[MJ]

http://www.hemmingsdiy.co.uk/quickste.htm
 I used this stuff to repair a broken laptop assembly.

That stuff looks like it will fix anything anywhere.  Huge temperature range too.

[JustMichael]

That stuff looks like it will fix anything anywhere.

Made me think of duct tape for some reason...