WWF Wrestlemania restoration: getting 'er back into the ring

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mourix:
Final assembly time. The big plan here is to combine all the seperate parts like putting an Ikea cabinet back together.

First off I cleaned the empty cab, put back the monitor mounts with freshly painted bolts, and hauled it into my poor parents' living room.

Step 1: mounting the coin doors:

Step 2: mounting the PCB and power supply. It was a good thing I measured the power supply AC cord, as its a 115V line. Turns out this 230V export model just changed the transformer to 230V->115V keeping it all murican inside...

Step 3: monitor install. After verifying all the voltages and hearing the startup sound from the speakers, I put in the monitor and she fired right up after 15 years of being dead.

Step 4: marquee and control panel in. I am getting super excited at this point!

Step 5: putting the cleaned bezel and new glass in. My dad broke the old stored glass years ago so I got custom cut tempered glass... It's really as new now. (5mm thick, 670mm x 635mm for all ya metric peeps).

So there we are. It's alive! I'll be doing some finishing touches before I take the final end result pics but it's getting there 8)

mourix:
Final baby steps are being done. Yesterday I painted the back bottom part:

Also made some keychain bling :laugh:

Howard_Casto:
That's beautiful man. Midway cabinets imho are the peak of arcade cabinet design. The full sized photo realistic artwork always gets me and any cabinet with the Undertaker on the side is fantastic.

mourix:
Aaaaaand we're done! I am so happy with the end result :cheers:

emphatic:
Beautiful work. :applaud:

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