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taylormadelv:
This is borderline a "restoration" and a "project". I bought a Williams mini cabinet about a month or so ago. It is a Bubbles mini but it was missing the control panel and a panel under the marquee. Some nice wood damage along the bottom and sides and of course, no original boards.
So this is my chance to build a Stargate mini!!!!
I will post more photos but THIS is what I have started with:
I have gotten help from Mlenardon from coinopspace and klov with artwork. He is the reason I am posting this, as he asked me to post progress, I will. He sent me a CPO scan, a marquee scan and a bezel scan. I actually found an NOS Stargate Mini marquee and bought it. Now I have to work on a custom bezel.
I am having custom wood cut for this. One panel for the CP, with a mortise cut for a Nintendo 2 way joystick (you can't find the original Stargate mini joystick) and the under marquee panel with a Nintendo style speaker grille routered out. Much, much more to come...

taylormadelv:



So this is what I started with. No control panel, no marquee and the panel under the marquee with the Nintendo style speaker grille cutout removed.
There was some wood flaking at the bottom, as the leg levelers had been removed and the cabinet was being slid around directly on the wood, which is always bad. I put on 2" casters to raise her off the floor and make her easy to move around.
I love Emlers Wood Filler, not toxic, easy to use, cleans up with water. I breathe enough toxic stuff from the paint!
Here she is in the cue for bondo work in my overcrowded garage! The Nintendo & Midway cabinets are conversions I am working on for a client, they are not mine.

taylormadelv:
And look what I found! An NOS Stargate Mini marquee!!! Still has the proctective layer of paper on the back!


Here's a preview of the under marquee panel that Jeff412 over at klov is cuttong for me:

Here's a few shots of savit4l8r's Stargate mini and the only photo of a Bubbles mini I have ever found:

And a recent screen pic of my Stargate High score I just got on thursday:


The greatest game ever created IMO: look at this beautiful, grainy shot of a real G07 monitor working perfectly with Stagate!

Rick:

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Nice.  Somebody else around here owns a Carvewright.  LOVE my machine!  (Hope he's not charging you too much!)

taylormadelv:

The under marquee panel cut by Jeff412 over at KLOV. Nice work and it shipped perfecly!


The control panel cut by Jeff and the buttons holes drilled by yours truley.

Control panel primed with Bullseye 321, this is awesome stuff!

Bubbles start buttons bondo, first round of bondo.

Start priming the sides and some of the front. The bottom two carriage bolts on the Williams mini are inaccesable without taking wood apart. So instead of tearing up wood or cutting the bolts off, I decided to leave the bottom coin door on the cabinet. I never do things this way, as you can see that the top coin door has been renoved and has been refinished to be installed much later on.

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