Moving on, some miscellaneous updates.
Controls all wired. This part is slightly extravagant (but really not, given the overall cost...) but I'm using a U-HID mounted onto the control panel to keep all the wiring local. It allows me to easily disconnect by removing the USB leads that go to the U-HID and the Servostik control board. It didn't seem worth looking at other connectors when USB did the job perfectly.
I can't find photos of this bit, but I ended up routing out the MDF on the top of the control panel to allow the dust washer to sit underneath the plexi. So there's nothing on top of the plexi now, and you just see the washer directly underneath. I'd already painted the top side when I made that decision, so ended up marking the surface enough that it needed to be repainted. It's not a big piece so it wasn't a major disaster. The surface of the MDF is just primed, rollered in cheap black and finally sprayed, with the roller texture sanded level before the spray coat. The spray coats were high-grit sanded to give a nice finish.
Changing topics, whilst testing the cabinet I've had keyboard and mouse and USB storage plugged into the PC that's mounted where the PCB would normally be. I figured I didn't want to be pulling the cabinet out and removing the back every time I needed to tweak for whatever reason, so I bought a cheap USB hub from eBay, de-cased and mounted it inside the coin door. Terrible photo, but you get the idea.
Next, the now obligatory serial plate. There's plenty written about these elsewhere, but in summary this is printed on a clear label and then mounted on thin aluminium sheet. The aluminium is just thin enough to make it possible to cut with repeated passes from the knife coupled with a bit of bending.
Mounted it looks like this, which is plenty good enough for something that only the wall is ever going to see
For the monitor surround I used thin paper to help template the curve of the monitor.
Once I had a decent enough template I cut the card version. I did the mullet at the same time, which is more more straightforward. I tried mounting the mullet with little glue dots (like double-side tape but thicker, and in dot shape) but a few started to lose grip relatively quickly so I resorted to staples. I was hoping to avoid the permanence of staples.
The monitor surround looks a bit bumpy in this photo but it's settled flat into place now.
The only think I don't like about this setup is that the monitor gives off a fair amount of heat and this heat now has nowhere to go. Previously it could have escaped out of the rear handles, but now it's totally enclosed with the mullet behind and the marquee shelf above (and the bezel in front, obviously not pictured!). Still, this is how it must have been with the originals, so hopefully it's fine.
Pretty much there now. I few final photos and, inevitably tweaks aside, I think this is game over