Defender Resurrection II

Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair

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jan25th:
Props to your patience. Looks good.

pbj:
I had a Comet pinball with similar cabinet issues. I just sat down with some paint markers and filled in all the chipped areas in the yellow and red. The end result was a huge improvement.

GearHead:
Absolutely zero CRT monitors around here so I decided to go with a Wells Gardner LCD.

The monitor bezel I purchased was narrower than the old bezel by about 1.5 inches. A small pain in ass but easily remedied by cutting some 3/4 inch x 3/4 inch plywood strips and attaching them to the cabinet.

Rear View

I had the frame of an old 19" monitor and used that as the base for mounting the LCD monitor. A few pieces of wood and some black paint and the monitor was mounted and in place

A new marquee and monitor glass and we are looking good.

I threw the isolation transformer back into the cabinet to give it some more weight. I still need to close up the back.

There is one part missing that I need to find - The upper retaining bracket for the monitor glass which I think is the same as the upper marquee bracket.
Anyone know where I can pick up an extrusion/profile that matches this?

yotsuya:
Looks good. I teach too. The access to the woodshop has been valuable.

GearHead:
Finally got around to making a MultiWilliams control panel for the game. I looked at few overlays and decided to go with This Old Game's Defender themed CPO and I also popped for the plexiglass.

I wanted to keep things old school and went all leaf. The Leaf Pro 8 Way joysticks were a good compromise in height between a Defender/Joust stick and a Robotron.

Had to 3D print some more spacers for the leaf switches to work with the short leaf buttons.

Looks pretty good.

The feel of the joysticks is pretty good with games. Playing Robotron takes a little getting used to, but it's not bad. Defender and Joust are close. The Leaf Pros need a little more resistance but they will do for a machine in my classroom.

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