Hey Chopper. How do you get that laminate on the lower front without removing the panel?
Rough cut the chunk of laminate needed 1/2" larger overall with a utility knife. Clamped laminate to piece of board to shave and square up 2 of the edges using a router with a flush trim bit. I got the width to within 1/16" and continued flush trim at very small increments til the piece was just the right width. Taped off areas on the sides to avoid getting contact cement on them and used a 3M spray glue and covered both cab and laminate piece. Removed tape right away and waited 5 minutes. Set piece and smoothed out with a j roller. I used a step drill to create pilot holes for the coin door and speaker opening. The coin door is the easy part to trim out and gets a little tricky with the speaker hole and bottom edge. I used small strips of 3/4" plywood laid on the cab to raise up the router and set the bit depth pretty far so that I could avoid running into the protruding sides of the cab. This allowed me to flush trim the speaker hole and bottom perfectly.
I started with the reassembly of crash first (the circus coin door frame needs some welding done to it).
The bezel got f_ucked over by some punk ass at some point and there were some real deep gouges in it.
Started with wet sanding using 1000 grit to get rid of the gouges. Switched over to 3000 and continued to wet sand it all smooth and followed up the final polishing with Novus #3 and #2. My arm was about to fall off after doing it, but it came out great.
The linear power supply was outputting 11.46v and it should be 5v. I'd rather not waste any time trying to fix that thing.
Nice, clean and tidy now. Re pinned all molex connectors and added a switcher to handle the 5v. The transformer supplies the 6v ac (purple wires) needed for the marquee lights and also supplies the 35v ac (green and blue wires) needed for the sound amp that is located on the pcb.
Got the coin door detailed along with some other bits. Starting to look sexy. Now that I have a solid power block I can move onto bench testing the board and monitor and see where the hardware is at.
good day.