Help Restoring Dynamo Cab

[brained]

Hi all, I recently bought an used empty Dynamo Cab and I have a couple of questions:

1) The back left side of my cab has grown a little due to water damage, it's 3/4 particle board and it grew to 1 1/2 inch thick. But just the back part of the Cab. The front Is ok!. I've seen some people that use bondo to fix this issue.

What shall I do??? If there any ways I can save that without replacing the board???

2) My cab is covered with black rugged vinyl, on the inside and the outside. should I paint the cab??, or remove the old vinyl and apply some new one. What about the inside part... If I want to replace the ones inside I need to dismantle the side boards, I think

Please give me some light, and suggestions!!, I'll post pictures of the first question when I get home from work.

[metahugh]

I have a Dynamo cab in the same condition, the sides appear to have quite a bit of water damage.  They have expanded at the edges.



It appears to have some type of thin paper like covering that is coming off.  Since it's particle board underneath I felt that painting would be a pain, plus the sides would get damaged easier.

I am going to purchase the roll of adhesive vinyl that Happ sells and cover the sides.  Will same me quite a bit of time and will be more resistant to bumps and bruises.

http://www.happcontrols.com/vending/acesor/49057200.htm

If you want to purchase the vinyl from the link I provided just wait a second and the rest of the page frames will come up giving you the purchase links.

Hi all, I recently bought an used empty Dynamo Cab and I have a couple of questions:

1) The back left side of my cab has grown a little due to water damage, it's 3/4 particle board and it grew to 1 1/2 inch thick. But just the back part of the Cab. The front Is ok!. I've seen some people that use bondo to fix this issue.

What shall I do??? If there any ways I can save that without replacing the board???

2) My cab is covered with black rugged vinyl, on the inside and the outside. should I paint the cab??, or remove the old vinyl and apply some new one. What about the inside part... If I want to replace the ones inside I need to dismantle the side boards, I think

Please give me some light, and suggestions!!, I'll post pictures of the first question when I get home from work.

[MAME nut]

I had water damage on the bottom 2" of my cabinet.  I simply cut it off, put a new bottom on, and then installed wheels to make up for the difference.

[Tailgunner]

My Dynamo cab was in similar shape. Here's what I did to fix it.

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=12414

[brained]

Tailgunner, you did a Helluva job there NICE!!!!.

But i think my back panels are a wider than yours, but anyways I can just sand it down and then bondo right???

Ohh can u show me the Control Panel, I wanna see it. Ohhh should I dismantle the side panels and apply new vinyl to them on the insides.??

[Tailgunner]

Tailgunner, you did a Helluva job there NICE!!!!.

But i think my back panels are a wider than yours, but anyways I can just sand it down and then bondo right???

Ohh can u show me the Control Panel, I wanna see it. Ohhh should I dismantle the side panels and apply new vinyl to them on the insides.??

Thanks, I wish I had some "before" pics to show how that cab looked when I got it.

Dynamo has made a few variations on their basic cab design, but they're all made pretty much the same. Bondo will work quite well on all of them.

Sadly that cab hasn't progressed much since the thread, I've made a bezel for it a few months ago but I rarely have the time to work on it these days. The control panel is still as pictured in the thread.

As to removing the sides, I wouldn't if I could avoid doing so. My cab had swollen edges all around the outside, but the inside edges were good enough to leave alone. I did fill the T-molding grooves with bondo and then cut fresh grooves with a router.

[brained]

Hmmm I see, so you recommend me to trim the back panel till it's 3/4" and then bondo

I forgot to post the pictures yesterday, too busy when I got home.

[Tailgunner]

Hmmm I see, so you recommend me to trim the back panel till it's 3/4" and then bondo

I forgot to post the pictures yesterday, too busy when I got home.

I ground my edges a little low and built them back up with Bondo.

Post your pics and we'll take it from there.

[brained]

Ground the edges, with a grinder?. I don't have a grinder, can I sand it down?

HERE ARE THE PICS, can you see the damage.

[Tailgunner]

Ground the edges, with a grinder?. I don't have a grinder, can I sand it down?

Sure you can. I'd suggest a belt sander with a really rough belt, but a block of wood wrapped in sand paper would suffice.

[brained]

Cool, I'll be sanding it. With this method!! Thank,
I'll start restoring this weekend I hope