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Farb's Donkey Kong Restore *COMPLETED*

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Farb:
Hi all,

I just wanted to share some pics of the dedicated Donkey Kong I picked up from eBay. The side art, t-molding and instruction cards clearly need to be replaced.

The laminate on the sides is in decent (but not great) shape and has several spots that will need touch up. I haven't decided yet what I'm going to do... it seems a shame to just paint over it given it's in mostly good condition, but the spots that are bad are noticeable.

The marquee and bezel artwork is in pretty good shape but the monitor plexi has scratches in it. I'll have to see if I can get rid of the scratches somehow or if I need to just replace the whole bezel.

The coin door has the typical nasty credit button shoe-horned into it and seems to be missing the metal "supports" that hold a returned coin. Some of the wires were snipped for some reason, so I'll have to work on that. It's missing the drawer that holds the coins and didn't come with keys, so that's something else I'll need to figure out.

The joystick appears to have an 8-way restrictor plate installed. It's in okay (again not great) shape, so I'll need to figure out whether I should find a 4-way restrictor to replace it with or replace the whole stick. The buttons need replacing since it looks like 2 of them have had their edges melted with a soldering iron. The CP artwork is in good shape but the plexi is discolored in several spots and will probably need replacement.

Monitor looks good and has clearly been recapped. I noticed some minor sparkling during the intro sequence but nothing during the game. Sound is good with a little background buzz (need to find the volume control and turn it down though!).

So, all in all, there's a bit of work to do to this machine, but I'm excited to get going on it!  8)

Any comments or suggestions are welcome!

->Dan

amadama:
You got yourself a nice looking cab. Good luck with the restoration. I look forward to your progress.
Alex

Lutus:
That left side must have been in a window or something.  FADED!!!

You should strip the artwork off of both sides and buy new artwork from www.arcadeshop.com.

Also, you can get a 4-way restrictor from www.mikesarcade.com.

If you have to use any woodfiller at all, you may as well, sand the whole cab down, primer, and paint.

Does the thing work?  You didn't mention.  You should get the D2K kit/Braze high score kit.  They sell the combo together from www.arcadeshop.com also.

Good luck.

Coin_Op:
Nice Machine :cheers:

Should turn out awesome!

Farb:
amadama & Coin_Op:

Thanks for the encouraging words!

Lutus:

Yes, now that you mentioned it, I thought just the artwork was faded... it looks like the laminate is faded too. I guess I'm painting :P

I was debating between quarterarcade.com or arcadeshop.com for the side art. I've seen people say good things about both. arcadeshop's stuff appears to be $17 more.

The game itself is working great and the monitor has been capped and looks sharp and colorful with no screen burn-in I can detect.

I did see that mikesarcade.com had the restrictor plate, but now that I've inspected the joystick in more detail, I'm not sure what to make of it. It seems too tall above the control panel and the ball top doesn't seem to quite fit the shaft. I've attached a close up pic of it.

I'm considering the Braze kit for the future, but for now I want to keep it original.

->Dan

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