Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
A New Hope... "I knew you could do it!"
ChadTower:
If he doesn't want it at that time I'm looking for one myself... I'm always on the lookout for a Black Widow and of the few I do see they usually don't have a monitor.
RetroACTIVE:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 29, 2009, 08:21:24 am ---
If he doesn't want it at that time I'm looking for one myself... I'm always on the lookout for a Black Widow and of the few I do see they usually don't have a monitor.
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"As you wish."
RetroACTIVE:
I'm not where I wanted to be just yet... I've done a few things...
Re-fabricated the front bottom, rear bottom and back panels. I've also stripped and primed the control panel and am getting ready to finally fix the corner issues... hopefully it will be back together this weekend!
Here are a few pics...
Control panel ready for black paint... it had some rust spots so it needed to be completely stripped and primed...
Here is the new front panel... I've not yet applied the artwork... I used white melamine so that it would be pretty much an exact copy of the original... (minus the decal of course!)
New rear door... those spots are on the camera lens...
New rear lower panel... (nothing too remarkable here)
Amplifone goodies have arrived... I've all the parts coming to rebuild/bulletproof them...
I've a deadline of next Friday.... I'm having my first game party! The WG will be going in for now... the Amplifone is a project for a later date...
"Ah... everything under control... situation normal, we're all fine now here..... how are you? "
ChadTower:
Could you document when you join those new pieces into the cabinet? Mine is trash in the back. Needs a new roof, the panel below that, new door, and probably the one below that. Might need a new floor, too. It's just teetering on the point of burning the cabinet and finding a new one because the sideart is still usable. I'm still sort of on the fence about finding a better cab or saving this one.
RetroACTIVE:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 06, 2009, 09:18:21 am ---
Could you document when you join those new pieces into the cabinet? Mine is trash in the back. Needs a new roof, the panel below that, new door, and probably the one below that. Might need a new floor, too. It's just teetering on the point of burning the cabinet and finding a new one because the sideart is still usable. I'm still sort of on the fence about finding a better cab or saving this one.
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Sure... the way I removed them may also be pertinent. I first unscrewed all of the blocking screws on the inside front of the cab which hold the front panel on. Then, with a real stiff 4" putty knife, I separated the front from the blocking by tapping it in along the edges to break the glue bond, working from the top to the bottom. It takes a bit, you may leave a few pieces of the front on the blocking. Once the front was off, I did the same putty knife technique along the base. However, the base is also nailed from the underside to its blocking, so you need to pull the nails out first before you go trying to use the putty knife to break the glue seal otherwise you'll just run into the nails. After I got through most of the glue, I used a rubber mallet to strike the base from the inside to get it free. Then I peeled it off from front to back... it kind of crackles off of the angled piece but I don't think you can avoid that completely. After I got the bottom off the angled and lower rear panel piece just popped off pretty easily.
All of the blocking is left in place so the new panels should just go on pretty quickly. I don't want to remove the blocking along the side panels as I'm afraid it may accidentally pull too much of the particle board material with them. My plan is to staple and glue the two bottom pieces first then put them in place and staple and glue them to the cab as one. Then put the front and then the rear panel piece on.
We'll see how it goes...
PS... I'm purposely not showing pics of the machine... it's a bit upsetting :( ... I had (what looked to be) a perfectly put together machine... now not so much. It did really need the work, once I got to the underside of it, it was really in bad shape, it must have sat on a wet surface, two of the t-nuts were non-existent and the holes where they used to be were damaged so badly that I could not simply replace them.
"Oh my... R2 can you hear me .... say something!"
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