So how about some pictures? Without the Photobucket spam!
Here's the Eyes monitor, a W-G 4675. Took these before pulling the monitor for initial repairs, because one should ALWAYS take pictures before removing anything you plan to put back:
Here's the underside of the Eyes control panel. In surprisingly good shape. I was prepared to replace everything, but all it really needed was some contact cleaner on the leaf switches. I probably will replace the Fire buttons due to being discolored on the top side, but other than that I may not do anything else here.
Both monitors (plus a Sanyo 14" from my Missile Command that was getting long in the tooth) went out to David Countryman for repairs. Dave fixed all three, I loaded them back up in my car... and then an idiot in front of me slammed on his brakes as I was on my way home. The G07 slid forward and the yoke hit a solid object, bending the yoke pins and breaking the yoke board. Fortunately the picture tube itself wasn't cracked, and Dave had a new yoke board he's installing today. Still,
The W-G went in without a hitch, and Eyes was fired up for the first time since at least 1995:
This one also went back to day for some more work. Based on the "hourglass" distortion (this picture doesn't do it justice, it's worse than what you see here) it looks like the infamous C614 cap still needs to be replaced, so it also went back to the shop. (I should note that Dave gave me the option to either do or not do a full recap the first time and I opted to cheap out; this was the result, so no shade on him that this one needed more work.)
Besides stripping and re-covering the two metal pieces above and below the control panel (see below) I don't think I'll be doing much more to Eyes other than replacing the t-molding and maybe putting some gliders on the bottom to preserve the particle board, which has gotten beaten up on the bottom corners just from contact with the ground and being moved around over 40 years. The CP does have a few cigarette burns, but I think it's more likely than not that I'll just leave it be, other than replacing the rusted up joystick plate with a repro.
The Kickman control panel is very worn and has a lot of rust spots, so I'm going to go full out and restore it. First up, stripping the old covering (the two small pieces here are the aforementioned Eyes control panel bars):
Citristrip is doing its thing at the moment. I'll also have to scrape/sand/do something about the rust after the coatings are off:
Unfortunately This Old Game no longer offers a re-screening of Kickman CPs, but they were nice enough to sell me a copy of their stencil, and I've located a local shop that can do the recovering when the parts are ready. So more to follow.
Some nimrod gouged out a hole around the Kickman back panel lock at some point in the past, so I repaired that with good old fashioned wood putty over the weekend. Turned out pretty well.