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UPDATE - TURNING BAD! found orig. side art under paint - now what?

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paigeoliver:

That is the worlds most common cabinet. Sand it down, paint it nice, and then get the multicade artwork from www.arcadeshop.com (bezel, marquee, and CPO), it will look awesome. Pac artwork is not the most salvageable artwork around.

Also people, they are ALL classic cabinets, every last one of them. Conversion cabinets of dedicated games outnumber generic dynamos like 25 to one. Almost any cabinet you buy will have originally been Pac-Man, Defender, Berzerk, Scramble, or Time Pilot or something originally.

maraxle:


--- Quote from: megashock5 on July 26, 2004, 05:19:46 pm ---ps. tried Lowe's and Home Depot for the 3M Safe Stripper with no luck. Has anyone used Goof Off? They had that both places. If I can get the rest of the paint off, I'll post another pic.

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Goof Off will eat the Pac-Man art as well as the black stuff.  Keep looking for the 3M Safest Stripper.  It's weak enough to where it's your best bet.

megashock5:

My plan was alway to do the mulitcade thing - so I already worked up a marquee and everything. Scott at MameMarquees.com was going to print it up for me.

I'm hearing people say that this cabinet won't make a good 2-player machine. I'd gladly trade this one for one that would be a better candidate.

Not to complain, as everytime I ask for help at this site the people have been incredibly helpful, but it seems like I'm getting a lot of responses that are ignoring what I'm saying. I appreciate the suggestions, but I'm not going to restore this cabinet and I don't want a 1-player vertical monitor machine.

I'm almost to the point where I'll trade it for a sheet of MDF. I just want to build a multiple game machine. I'd love to swap this for a dynamo cab or something, but I haven't gotten any offers.

If I can ever find the 3M Safe Stripper I'll try to get all the black paint off and post a new pic.

RayB:

I've read elsewhere that Goof Off is good too.

Strip the black off, then sell the cab.

And to that other guy: There have been alot more companies making generic cabs than just Dynamo...

~Ray B

pointdablame:

I don't think people aren't listening to you, its just your plans and your cab don't match up very well.

A pacman cab won't make a great 2 player do-all CP machine.  There simply isn't enough room to cram 2 players plus spinner and trackball without creating some ghastly oversized CP that IMO destroys the look of the cab.  We (at least I) understand what you're going for, but a vertical 1p Pac cab is not a great choice for a horizontal 2player MAME machine, at least in my opinion.

Hopefully you'll be able to find a cab better suited for what you want.  You're too far away from me or I might consider trading you my Midway cab for it.  

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