Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
A New Hope... "I knew you could do it!"
RetroACTIVE:
Had chance to do a little work... I replaced the marquee light bulb only to find I needed a starter... of course Home Depot had every friggin' starter but the one I needed (BTW... I hate Home Depot)... so across the street to Lowes and voila!
Besides that here are some pics of the foam tape... works well.. its a little firm for the marquee though... seems to push on the glass causing a bump in the decal... I'm hoping it will relax as time goes by...
I stripped and painted the marquee bracket:
Application of foam tape... nothing spectacular...
Here is the tape along the perimeter of the control panel...
"You know sometimes I amaze even myself" (not realy... just like the comment)
RetroACTIVE:
Getting close to wrapping this up!... I need some locks for the coin and vault door and a new set of mathbox proms... all on their way
Here are some final shots...
New marquee... as you can see it worked out fine... there are absolutely no bumps or ridges... so the foam strips are good to go...
Closeup shot of the "cockpit"...
Full shots of front and side...
Innards... not "rusty" ;)
New clean base and PS block..
ARII and board cage..
Clean rebuilt 6100 deflection...
Just about ready to wrap this up...
"I don't think you boys can help"
ChadTower:
That's really sweet. Nice job! :applaud:
Level42:
Amazing, better than new !
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If you're not replacing the fan, it could use some dusting/compressed air though ;) (Amazing how tiny things strike you when all other things look so tight.)
RetroACTIVE:
--- Quote from: Level42 on May 21, 2009, 03:44:57 pm ---Amazing, better than new !
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If you're not replacing the fan, it could use some dusting/compressed air though ;) (Amazing how tiny things strike you when all other things look so tight.)
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Definitely on my list as I've already hit it once... as you can see some of the dust in on the floor... I do intend on cleaning it profusely... I just wanted to get it in and get it fired up to see what was left to do... It was originally so dirty it looked like it was growing moss ;)
The absolute last thing I will get to... (sure) is to touch up the artwork along the base...
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