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ZORK2:
Next I started working on the joysticks. The only leaf sw that needed repaired was homer's "forward" sw. I was able to solder on a wire to the broken lead so that I didn't have to replace the leaf sw. I found them kind of hard to locate! Anyone know where replacements can be found? I might someday replace everything with micro-sw and be done with it??
The joy sticks were a mess!! Rusted and crappy looking!
I got out the cordless drill and the mother mini-powerball.
I used mothers aluminum polish and ran the power-ball on each stick for a few minutes. They would only get about 75% clean. I then put the joystick in the vise and buffed and RE-buffed each one until it look BETTER than NEW! About 15min, per stick.

ZORK2:
I'm not sure new ones look THIS good!

ZORK2:
This brings us to the day before yesterday, well the day before Friday as it is not after 1200am on the 4th.
I did the most contriversial thing on the entire game thus far. I drilled holes on the CP for a 3rd button. I eventully want to install several other 4 player games in with a multi jama in this cab. It will require a 3rd button. I may catch greif for doing this but HEY, it's my game RIGHT!?!?!  ;D
Oh well, I still cringed as I drilled the holes. They turned out nice, but were have an inconsistant location on the CP due to the CPO. I didn't want them to cover any of the graphics. ABOUT THIS TIME, MY NEW SIDE ART, MARQUEE, and CPO showed up via the mail man!  ;D
I couldn't wait to look at them! They looked GREAT! Top notch! Mamemaquee.com lived up to its rep in my book. If they read this, how about a DISCOUNT NEXT time!??!  ;D
I was pretty tired from working the better part of the day on this thing so decided NOT to mess with any of the art I put it in an empty room in my house and layed a bunch of books on it to flatten it out.
The last thing I wanted to accomplish for the day was to take the CP to the local glass cutter and have a 1/16th" over lay made for the CP. It did not come with one for a pattern. Probably why the CP was in such rough shape. I took it to them and they said they could make it out of lexon, fit it to size with all the whole drilled for 60$ OUCH!! I went ahead an did it as I thought I'd probably have 50$ worth of broken "attempts" and about a full day trying to make one!! I've never had good luck with plexi, and I know nothing about lexon.

ZORK2:
I woke up yesterday refreshed!  ;D
I figured I'd try and get one side of the cab done. The first thing I did was watch every YouTube video I could fine on how to apply side art. I had NEVER done anything like this before. Now that I THOUGHT I knew what I was doing I took one side and held it up to the side of my cab. Not even CLOSE! I tryed every which way to get all the graphics to fit. THEY WOULD'NT!! So I remember from my hours of sand(probably the only GOOD thing that came from all those hours) that the artwork had been CUT, and placed in section on the side of the cab. I looked back at the pics and saw how they did it. I thought I could do it a bit more efficiently. So with a tape measure and a sharp pair of sicssors I made the nessacary cuts. TALK ABOUT A LEAP OF FAITH! I just paid close to 200$ for this side art and believe me, even the THOUGHT of taking a pair of scissors to it made my skin crawl! THAT on top of the fact I have never done this before made me EXTRA nervous. I took my time and was EXTREAMLY careful! It couldn't have turned out better. The hardest part was cutting the little "strip" for the middle section. I needed to be precise and as hard as I tryed it wasn't square!

ZORK2:
Here were my cuts, and tools. On my cell, I dialed 91, and was prepared to hit the extra "1" in case something went terribly wrong!!  :)

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