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HaRuMaN:
Lol... if you're still using 56K, you're already bordering on FAIL...  I wouldn't worry about it.

And what the hell happened to that cab?  Did it fall off a moving truck?

Octo:
Wow..... :dizzy:

It's gonna be like the Six Million Dollar Man getting that thing back together.... or Robocop, when they shoot Murphy to pieces.

That really is a shame that someone would destroy an original cab like that, if only for the sideart. If the art could come off I would recommend copying the panel dimensions and applying it on a fresh cab, but it won't....

As far as diagrams, all I could find was the sit-down enclosed Star Wars game from 1983, it seems to be the more popular version. :dunno

abzman2000:

--- Quote from: HarumaN on March 05, 2009, 08:16:53 am ---Lol... if you're still using 56K, you're already bordering on FAIL...  I wouldn't worry about it.

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I figured that warning might do two things:
1. warn anyone with a slow internet connection not to open this thread
2. entice people with fast internet to open the thread because of the promise of lots of pictures

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on January 05, 2009, 03:08:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: abzman2000 on December 30, 2008, 05:23:33 pm ---A hint at how bad it is: someone into arcade restoration (usenet) gave it away for free, and after 2 days of explaining, to what was probably a lot more discerning group of people than than me, it's condition.
--- End quote ---

It couldn't even be given away? This poor cab would have to be in really bad shape if no one is humping to own it.

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Holy crap. I was right. That poor cab looks like someone tried to shove it through the damn pet door.

Well... you have a pretty good opportunity here if you choose to do a restore. Wherever you can, you can use the broken portions as templates to cut out new pieces with a better grade wood.

You're going to use a lot of techniques if you expect to do an actual repair ... er repairs instead of new construction. Don't be shy about looking at other fields and see what kind of techniques they use for repairs.

If I saw this cab, I probably would've salvaged what I could and sent the rest to the curb. Kudos to the better man with the bigger balls to take on a project this involved. :cheers:

MacGyver:
Well you could always just use the poor thing for it's measurements and then upload them to jakobud.com, then just make a new one from scratch, maybe keeping a shelf or a support here and there.  :( Don't forget to get REALLY high quality scans of the art work, someone somewhere must need them too, and might be willing to vector them as well.  At least it would have died for a reason.  Good luck either way.

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