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Locke141:

--- Quote from: wp34 on April 12, 2019, 12:03:20 am ---Glad to see you are back at this. :cheers:

Instead of paint have you considered laminate? The Caribbean Blue looks very good on a DK cabinet.

https://www.skyskipperproject.com/lets-talk-laminate/

My only suggestion on the CP would be to find a joystick that works well for games other than DK. My daughter is a purist and demanded we get an authentic DK joystick for our Fix-it-Felix build. The Nintendo games play fine on it but the other 4-way games (Pac Man, Nibbler, etc...) not so much.

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I'll take a look at the laminate, I'm a bit nerves to try something new on this one. My current thinking is the Pac-Pro for a joystick.

Locke141:

--- Quote from: Malenko on August 23, 2018, 10:07:06 pm ---Make it a Fix it Felix

Not that anyone cares but DKJr, DK-Pauline, DK3

DK3 isnt bad if you treat it like a shmup, I just think Jr is the most fun

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I picked up an original DK bezel in good condition for a good price so I think this will remain ostensibly a DK. I’ll keep it two player but with pac pro’s or a like, so may have to costume make a CP.

Locke141:
Wow, it’s been a while. but this project is back from the to do later.

I haven’t working on it since brain cancer unexpectedly put this project on hold. This started years ago and I bought a lot of equipment. As for the control panels, I decide I’m gonna start off by completing the build with the vinyl control panel print I bought years ago. I’m gonna try to keep the outside of the machine as original looking as possible. For now, the inside will be a 60 in 1 and one four-way joy.

Long term, I may make a second control panel and make it MAME on the inside. But even then it’s going to be limited in the number of games.

Locke141:
Pic’s!!!

I just did a test fit of the plexi cover I had. Looks good.

Locke141:
Here is the cabinet gutted and ready to go for a paint. My dad‘s neighbor also my neighbor growing up, it’s a professional painter is going to do the job at a reasonable price.

I removed all the metal bars and the bolts that lead to the outside. I replaced the the transition from out to in by gluing and screw in wood blocks internally to hold the frame of the top of the CRT. All the bolt holes are getting speckled and painted over. All screws are song below the external surface.

Also took the two side mounds that look like they were once one piece. I think they were ground in half to make two side. I reattach them with four screws and peace of a 2 x 4, this works for now. Let me see if I can find room of welder to do some quick welding.

The back cover is so shot that I am considering just making a new one. Check out the pics below and feel free to give me feedback.

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