Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Peale's Donkey Kong Restoration/Conversion
Kevin Mullins:
I find myself making mistakes like that any time I feel myself in a rush. :(
One of those "just when I thought I was getting ahead" sinking type feelings.
SirPeale:
I managed to destroy 3/8 of the bolts on the CP. Luckily a KLOV member is sending me some used ones for free to replace them.
I stripped down the marquee retainers with electrolysis. I wish I'd learned about this process years ago! They just need a bit of touching up and painting.
SirPeale:
I've been cleaning the heck out of the CP today. I removed rust from the parts with electrolysis, wiped them down, primed and painted an aluminum color. 100% better than what I started with (pitted iron colored crap).
Also painted the wooden CP itself. Over the years the original faded to a sort of brown color. I sprayed it with semi-gloss black.
SirPeale:
The disassembled control panel has been sitting on the chest freezer in the kitchen for a month now. So I assembled it.
I still need new bolts to hold the CPO on, but the four I have on there right now will do to keep things together.
One thing I noted was that the holes in the CPO are very close to the original spacing, but just enough off that they're a bit cocked. I'll have to make some minute adjustments and hopefully not kill it in the process. The heads of the bolts are only so big.
I saw another project recently that had the buttons for a D2K replaced with other colors: white for the player buttons and yellow for jump. I do believe I'm going to go that route.
SirPeale:
I waited for what seemed like forever for the CP bolts to arrive from that KLOV'r. Since they were coming from .ca I knew it could be a while.
The envelope showed up last week. JUST the envelope. :( It had been torn open. Looks like on purpose.
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