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Namco:

One of my most loving memories is playing a brand spanking new Street Fighter 2 cab. There was a wonderful smell like  that of pine, beezwax, vinyl, and hot new circuit board mixed together. I'll never forget it.

On my current cab, once I vacuum out the dust, rat droppings, and dead caps from the floor of the cab, I'll be lucky if I can still smell rotting plywood  ;D

SavannahLion:

Just a thought. Wouldn't the outgassing of formaldehyde potentially cause the sealing coat of paint to bubble?

Just how much formaldehyde is released over the years? Considering the vast number of particle-board furniture in people's homes, I would imagine that the ppm is too low to be of concern.


--- Quote from: pinballjim on November 12, 2007, 02:57:47 pm ---It's WAAAAY easier to find a dropped part inside a painted cabinet.  Maybe it's just my color blindness, but I'm basically having to look with my fingertips if I drop anything in the bottom of an old brownish cabinet.  Even with black, everything stands out against it.

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I have the same problem. I found that it's not necessarily the color I have problems with, it's the uniformity and texture of that color. The brown insides of a cabinet isn't uniform in color. Neither is the old ugly brown 70's carpet I grew up with or the new laminate flooring I put in in my new home. I've lost thousands of parts there. But the single gray of new concrete or the solid black of a painted inside makes it easy to find things.

GAtekwriter:

All,

Thank you very much for your comments and suggestions - I think I'm going to prime part of my cab insides, but the monitor weighs close to 100 pounds so that thing is staying in there :)

Jim


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