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star wars arcade cabinet partial restore
Mauzy:
Holy crap. If you could make this thing look like it was never split apart from the outside,, you would be my official arcade restoration hero.
Barry Barcrest:
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--- 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.
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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:
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In all seriousness I think rebuilding it using what is there for templates is the way to go. The artwork could be scanned and with some tweaking be put back together... Damn i wonder what really happened to that for it to end up in such bad shape. :'(
Good Luck with what ever you do dude.
ChadTower:
Damn, man. I'm one of the biggest advocates around for saving good games no matter the effort... but this one... give that one a viking funeral and move along. There were so many Star Wars cabs gutted when the monitors died that it shouldn't be too hard to take whatever parts are left and just use them to save a better candidate. This one is too far gone...
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