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Gutted Venture Cabinet back to a Mr. Do! MAME

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GAJoe:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 29, 2008, 11:10:41 pm ---Also, really don't try to stick a big panel on there, the cabinet will tip over and kill you and you wouldn't be able to see the monitor.

--- End quote ---

You're quite right, it's a top heavy cabinet.  My plan was to build small, swappable panels, though, so no worry.

The consensus so far seems to be that I am not going to draw the ire of the arcade gods by going through with this.  One reason I feel bad about it is that everyone keeps saying these are rare cabinets, but perhaps what they're really saying is that Venture hardware and artwork is scarce, not Exidy's boxes for housing them.

I'm waiting on a few other parts to come in, so there's still time if there is someone out there that really wanted a Venture/Pepper II/Hard Hat cabinet to restore and has another gutted cabinet to trade.  Otherwise, it starts becoming my MAME machine in a couple of days.

GAJoe:
Here is my progress so far.


My refinished coin door and new vinyl front.  The coin door isn't as great as some I've seen, but I'm satisfied with the look of it.


Monitor laying flat and vertical.


Monitor up and horizontal.


Side view of my so-so paint job.


Up close of horizontal display.


Up close of vertical display.


Back of the manual rotation harness (AKA the board with the LCD stuck in it).

leapinlew:
Lookin good. I loves me some Mr. Do

ark_ader:
Looks great!

GAJoe:
I have quite a few progress pictures, but they're giving me trouble trying to upload them all, so I'll leave it to these two more recent ones.

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