Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Cheese's Donkey Kong Restoration Project
Lutus:
Get them off best you can. You need to sand down, primer, and paint the whole cab anyways. So don't worry too much about sticker residue.
BUCKETHEAD:
Yeah, The paint won't stick to the laminate on the cabinet.
Your gonna have to rough it up, By sanding it.
Primer then paint!
CheeseSndwch:
Lutus and Buckethead thanks for keeping up with this thread and offering advice. It is greatly appreciated.
So I’m taking the cabinet over to a friend’s house this weekend to take care of a few things before I start the sanding/priming/painting process. My biggest concern are the random screws on the outside of my cabinet. I assume they were put there to reinforce it but they look like crap. Plus the lower right side of the cabinet has a very noticeable gap. I plan to remove the screws and see if they are actually holding the cabinet together. No matter what happens if the screws must stay I plan to countersink them so they can be covered up with putty/bondo before I paint. I also plan on removing the current base and fabricating a new one. I’m itching to paint but I want to get things in order before I do.
Here are a few pics of the random screws on the left and right side of the cabinet. As well as the gap on the right side. There are also four screws on control panel box in the pic I attached in my last post.
BUCKETHEAD:
Yikes!
Looks like someone's attempt to keep the cabinet together!
And a poor one at that.
I would remove those old screws.
Get yourself some wood glue and clamps.
Some new screws and countersink those babies in!
It won't come apart again!
What do you think LUTUS ?
BUCKETHEAD:
Any progress my friend ?
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