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star wars arcade cabinet partial restore
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: beastathon on January 07, 2009, 08:29:30 am ---
--- Quote from: HarumaN on January 07, 2009, 08:23:00 am ---Wow... I wonder how someone managed to knock the entire top off?
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You would be surprised how angry some people can get.
Or someone tried to steal it but couldn't fit it through the door?
The possibilities are practically endless!
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I spotted a thread about it... either here or KLOV, I don't remember. Where someone couldn't get a cab down their stairs (or through their door or something). That person basically just took a sawzall and lopped off the top seperating the cab into two, carried it down, then reassembled the cab in the basement. Stupid if you ask me, I would've cut the door bigger. ;D
It's also an apparently common fate to games like Discs of Tron. :(
abzman2000:
ok, my spring break has started and I want to get some work done, first does anyone have something like an exploded diagram, or something that will let me know how this thing went together? right now I'm not sure what's original and what's not. second, does anyone have any ideas as to what I should do about that piece of wood above the coin door hole? it's broken off (obviously) but it seems to have never come out. I'd think that maybe clamping it together followed by gluing a thin piece of wood on the back would be a good idea.
abzman2000:
Come on guys, I expected a little more enthusiasm out of you. Here I am with minimal woodworking knowledge, moderate to decent electrical knowledge, and no hands-on arcade restoration knowledge, trying to put humpty-dumpty the star wars cab back together. I figured at least someone would be here trying to keep me from making it worse (however hard that may be).
I took the top off (about a dozen screws) and will have pictures soon.
HaRuMaN:
I need pictures to be enthused.... :D
abzman2000:
here we go:
detail of the broken part on the front of the cab
left side of the main body of the cab
right side of the main body of the cab
what remains of the wood that sat behind the marquee
top left broken off part of the cab
(the back corner of the left side is fractured)
top right broken off part of the cab (center part still attached)
(came off)
I'm tempted to add "56k warning" to the title of the thread, who thinks I should?
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