Guys, I need help...

[HeadRusch]

I picked up an original Moon Alien Coctail cab last night....that someone had started to try to hack into a Scramble.  The label on the coin slot says "100 yen" and the internal fuse diagram on the underside of the top is in japanese, so I'm guessing this might have come from distant shores.

Anyhow, I paid $50 for the gutted cab because the top glass was 100% intact.

Well, much to my horror I discovered that it wasn't clear glass laying on top of a black-painted board, but rather its got this black covering on the back of the glass.  Problem is, I want to change the orientation of the monitor "cutout" and so forth, and now this glass isn't goin to be able to do that UNLESS I can find a way to remove the paint..or film..or wahtever the hell it is...on the back of this glass.

Anyone know how to get this stuff off?  Should I just scrape it?  Or should I sell the glass on ebay as original and just buy a plexi replacement top from the local glass shop...??

I can take a pic if you want but I figure you guys know what I'm talking about.

The cab was a little nasty inside...the mud-wasp nest was a pleaseant find.

[MinerAl]

Fingernail polish with lots of acetone in it and a razor scraper from the auto parts store.  Or just the scraper if you want all your brain cells and bigger biceps when you're done.

[HeadRusch]

Ok, I'll give that a shot

outside...!

[MinerAl]

Polish remover.  Fingernail polish remover.  I meant remover, not polish.  Remover.  Not polish.

[HeadRusch]

Yeah..well...the acetone ain't workin out.  This stuff is like a film...when you scrape it up with a razorblade (not easily done with JUST a razor, gotta get a scraper tomorrow) it comes up clean..but then you can't peel it up, it just crumbles away...probably due to the material and its age...

I'm trying this other "super goo gone" type stuff to see if that will break it down.

If not..well..I scrape..and scrape somemore

[paigeoliver]

When I restored the painted glass on my Time Pilot cocktail I just used a razor blade to scrape off all the black except for the parts around the color graphics. I then just repainted with black spraypaint and it came out great. There was absolutely no visible seams between the old paint and new paint at all.

That is what is so great about painting glass, it is almost impossible to mess up. It might look like a bia bia on the underside, but flip it over and it looks perfect.

So, yeah, my point. I guess my point was that you can probably save most of the paint/graphics and just scrape the area around the monitor to rotate the bezel area.

[HeadRusch]

admittedly..

I had not thought of that...

ONCE AGAIN THIS PLACE IS WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN LEAF SWITCHES!