Well, I've had this thing in storage for about a year. Picked it up here in the forums from user stan2323 and planned on working on it once I bought my house. This summer I was finally able to bring it outside to clean it up and sand it down. My plan is to restore the outside (may make some cosmetic changes/sacrifices here and there). But I still want the overall theme to be Super Pac-man. (I may change the CP overlay and marquee, not sure yet). I want a multi-pac eventually, but for now I may just put either a 60 in 1 in there with all Pac-man games enabled, or an old PC with MAME and all the Pac-man games. Either way, I love the notch in the cabinet so I MUST have the Super Pac-man on the sides.
First, I would like to give a shout out to stan2323. He was moving from down south up to West Point, NY which wasn't too far from me. He PM'd me and asked if I would want it or he was going to toss it. He said he could have it shipped up here along with his household stuff at no cost. I agreed in order to save it. When he moved here he contacted me and patiently held it in his garage for a while (thanks so much for this!). My buddy and I finally came and picked it up, where we moved it to storage for about a year in my buddy's garage (thanks Chris!).
Here's the condition of the machine when I got it:
Monitor has some burn in, but I plan to attempt a tube swap (Compatible tubes for the G07's are hard to come by I hear but I need to be patient). In the meantime I may just put a de-cased PC CRT in there until I find a donor TV that fits.
My buddy Chris and I picked it up in his truck:
~~~ Then it sat for a year. ~~~Once good weather hit, I decided to strip it down and remove the paint. That way I could bring it inside and work on the paint over the fall.
The hardware is in good shape as was the cabinet itself.
The monitor was filthy, so I cleaned it it up by giving it a bath in Simple Green and a garden hose. It's completely safe. Even captured it on video on my Youtube Channel.
Took pics of the paperwork since it would get ruined by the cleaning:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=136713.0;attach=335627;imageHere are the "after" pics:
Here's a video that I made of the cleaning process:
And now for the sanding:
Original artwork. It was pretty rough and I can see why they decided to paint over it.
I used bondo here and there to make it smooth as butter and ready for painting:
More sideart. I needed to sand it down to the wood, since it was originally stenciled on you could see the bumps from the different paint layers. So I needed to sand it smooth.
All done! I lightly sanded the inside as well to prep it for paint.
Paint! What a pain this was! I had originally found a paint code on the forums, but when I brought it in to Home Depot they said that the paint code was outdated and then had a "new" color mixing system. So, they attempted to punch in some numbers and it looked very dark (almost black). So I didn't buy it and went back to the drawing board. Then someone suggested that I used the back door to color match. Brilliant! Lucky for me I completely forgot to sand it when I was working on the cab and I was able to clean it and bring it in. The result, a beautiful perfect match!
More to come as I prepare to paint this thing...
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