Pac-man restoration - Return from Doh!

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Spyridon:

...and on a totally unrelated subject. I got a nice delivery in the mail on Friday

SirPeale:

--- Quote from: Spyridon on April 11, 2009, 11:06:21 pm ---I'm not sure how I'm going to get these out.

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Bent needle-nose pliers is how I do it.

Level42:

--- Quote from: Spyridon on April 11, 2009, 11:08:34 pm ---

...and on a totally unrelated subject. I got a nice delivery in the mail on Friday

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{Insert MAJOR envy here} Where did you get those ? Is this from the last stock they have/had ?

I am seriously thinking about getting a couple of new monitors. While they last.

Thanks for the pictures Spyri !

For my Puckman I think I will go this way: I've scanned the CP. I hope I can find a kind soul to vectorize and restore the colors etc. It shouldn't be very hard as the artwork is very simple. Then I'll have mamemarquees print it. My major worry about that is getting the size and position of the holes correct.

So, the new art will be a vinyl CPO, I don't see any other way I can restore it.(I guess the ultimate would be a stencil set and then spraying but that would be _much_ more complicated.)

The bonus of using the vinyl is that I can cover all those tiny holes around the joystick which are so fugly.

Then, I could either mount it like the original pac, or I was thinking of I could get someone to weld some threaded post so I could directly mount it to the CP.... but it will probably be the first option.

Spyridon:

--- Quote from: Level42 on April 12, 2009, 04:12:17 am ---{Insert MAJOR envy here} Where did you get those ? Is this from the last stock they have/had ?

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Yeah, this seems to be it from Happs for these monitors. I ordered these several weeks back. I got one universal mount which they had in stock and sent immediately. The three shelf mounts were on back order. They said once they got those in, that was the last of them.

orion:

--- Quote from: Spyridon on April 11, 2009, 11:06:21 pm ---I started stripping down the cabinet to prepare it for painting. I ran into a snag when I went to remove the coin door. The nuts holding it into place are buried into the wood:

The screws are part of the metal case around the coin door, so they do not turn. I don't know how they got these nuts on so far? This one in the picture is one of the better ones as the others are even farther into the wood. I'm not sure how I'm going to get these out.

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I have found that the easiest way to get nuts out that are embedded in wood like that is to go after them with vice grips.

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