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| GearHead:
I acquired this cabinet from an operator clearing out his warehouse. It was blue and had Final Fight installed in it but I knew that cabinet profile well. I scored a Defender cabinet. Defender was one of the games I had always wanted. I had grand plans of restoring it but like many of my other projects it got buried in the garage. Ten years, a new job and two moves later I finally had some time to start up the Defender restoration. I also revived my MAME project at the same time. I was in for lots of quality time in the garage Here's how I got the cabinet. It had been painted with several coats of tough paint but the cabinet was in decent shape. It had been converted to a JAMMA cabinet so there wasn't much left of its origins left. It was pretty much an empty shell. Luckily the original coin door was still intact. Inside after I removed the monitor and Final Fight board. Lots of work to do. I gutted the cabinet and cleaned it up a bit. The next step was to try and get the paint off. If I was really lucky the original paint job would still be intact... |
| wp34:
Nice score. The silver coin door is a great bonus. I'm hoping to restore a Defender in my near future as well. |
| Slippyblade:
I've been reading a lot of KLOV lately and Citri-strip seems to be used a LOT. Maybe give that a try on the paint? |
| CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: wp34 on May 27, 2016, 03:31:05 pm ---The silver coin door is a great bonus. --- End quote --- Yes! If it were mine, I would rewire with a JAMMA loom (just to make it all clean), grab a Jrok and take it MultiWilliams. Repaint from the wood up using the Williams Multi stencils from ToG. Or (well, not really) go dedicated Defender using a Jrok and stencils from whomever is selling them these days. For this, I would recommend reading pr0k's pages as listed on the old Restoration page in the wiki (nice to see it is still there): http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Restoration Nice cab with a gorgeous door deserves to be done up right. :cheers: |
| GearHead:
I forgot to mention that I am further along on this project. I am just now getting around to documenting it so more to come soon. A Multi Williams. I hadn't thought about that. Are JROK boards still available? If so, where? I have a Williams board set but the sound board is iffy and I haven't tested the rest yet. BTW - pr0k's domain is no longer. There are some pages on the Internet Archive but with missing images. |
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