Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Mario Bros in Red !
Darth Nuno:
I suggest you to put a lot more bondo too.
I've done similar job on that midway conversion.
Here's the area to fix :
A lot of bondo as you can see :
...of course it increases the sanding process, but the result is great 8) :
To less bondo and it'll go away during the sanding process...
Level42:
OK thanks for the tips, I'll try that. For now I guess the MB project is on hold though. From now until the end of the year I will need every spare minute for the construction of my gameroom.
However, look what I just found "in my backyard" (i.e. Germany):
http://www.arcadeshop.de/product_info.php?products_id=548&language=en&osCsid=84f5b8265e2c57f0963322b8d76d547c
That looks like a great replacement. Doesn't look like it's the original brand, but the plate looks identical. Not sure if it's the exact size though. And the price is a lot more friendly than the original one....
zorg:
You can save the original coin plate quite easily with a really cheap method
sand it down to the bare metal (aluminium), finish the sanding with a really thin wer sand paper (600 the 1000)
then forget it for a few weeks ouside the house. autumnal weather will give the aluminium his natural anodisation.
I've done it a few times and the result worth the time needed to forget the part :D
ckong:
This is a great topic, a lot of very useful information. the part that I am most interested in at the moment is the painting/bondo discussion. I got an original Donkey Kong cab a few weeks ago, with some severe samages on the kickpanel (6 bolts to hold a coindoor bar or something like that) and both sidepanels. Here are two pics of them, but there are more damages.
At the moment I am busy with restoring it, and I will repair the damages with 'bondo' (don't know what it is, I use two component woodfiller) and then repaint everthying with leaving the sideart on. I will mask the sideart of course, with sticky foil. I will post more pics of this process in my restoration topic over here: http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=1059.0
Level42:
Hey Erik !
Bondo is called polyester plamuur here :) !
There are several brands, I bought this one:
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