X-men 4-player cabinet Restoration/Conversion

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Arroyo:
Just on the local CL, apparently you can get $2,500 for that bad boy:

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/vgm/d/napa-men-4-player-arcade-machine/7031317531.html

opt2not:
Yup, these 4-player beat-em-ups are fetching a decent dollar these days. $2000-3000 for any of the big titles: Simpsons, TMNT (1 or TiT), X-men.

Surprised to see an X-men on the market, they're usually rarer these days. I've seen plenty of Simpsons and TMNT's though.

opt2not:
So the arcade gods smote me yesterday trying to find threaded inserts at my local hardware stores. I went to 3 Home Depots, and 1 Lowes and couldn't find enough for all 4 joysticks. Threaded Inserts seem to only be sold in 2's! what the hell?? I was able to find some big ones, but I couldn't get enough of the size of screw I need for the joysticks.
So after being denied from these hardware stores I conceded to having carriage bolts visible from the top of the CP. :( I'm convinced Yots and Mike did some kind of voodoo hex on me. :o

Well, it's happening:

I drilled out the button holes too. Didn't take a photo of it, but I'm sure everyone here knows what drilled holes look like. Then I proceeded to do another smoothing pass on the CP, then again cleaned-up with my 1-part Isopropanol + 1-part water rag and installed the art:

I only had one slip of my forsner bit on Player 4's Jump button, which resulted in slightly closer button spacing:

The buttons still fit, along with the nuts, but it's just a bit more cramped. Oh well, one day I'll get a drill press and do these things a bit more meticulously. For now this'll have to do.

I didn't get to complete the wiring last night, which I'm kicking myself for. By around 2am I started to really slow down...after this many consecutive late nights it was bound to catch up to me.

Anyway, I started on the clean-up and repair of the "sub harnesses" for Player 3 and 4:

They're in decent shape, just a couple wires were torn and frayed. I cleaned them up and repaired the ripped wires, then added Button-3 pins to the connectors. Tonight I'll have to get the rest of the wiring done using the old joys and buttons, then take on buffing out the scratches from the monitor plexi, and building the shroud out of poster board.

Side note, digging through my stash, I didn't realize I have a bag of Cherry switches laying around. I do tend to keep things when I do these restores, so I guess they just accumulated over the years. These will come in handy:

yotsuya:

--- Quote from: opt2not on December 04, 2019, 03:32:58 pm ---So the arcade gods smote me yesterday trying to find threaded inserts at my local hardware stores. I went to 3 Home Depots, and 1 Lowes and couldn't find enough for all 4 joysticks. Threaded Inserts seem to only be sold in 2's! what the hell?? I was able to find some big ones, but I couldn't get enough of the size of screw I need for the joysticks.

So after being denied from these hardware stores I conceded to having carriage bolts visible from the top of the CP. :( I'm convinced Yots and Mike did some kind of voodoo hex on me. :o

--- End quote ---

Yaaaaaaaaaassssssssss.....

Mike A:
---fudgesicle--- yeah.

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