Donkey Kong Jr. Restoration (COMPLETE)

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opt2not:
Cleaned up the joystick by removing all the old parts, cleaning out the old grease, and reapplying fresh silicon grease to the joystick. I have the same silicon grease sold by various vendors in the FGC for fightsticks.

Now the joystick springs back as it should and feels nice and loose. Responsiveness has increased, and is a pleasure to play on now. Nintendo joysticks can feel pretty crummy if they're not properly maintained.

Here's a video of the action:

I also got to install the new proper sized t-molding, the whole cabinet was scrubbed and cleaned, and I was able to tune up the monitor colours and convergence.

There are still a bit of small chipping on the sides, which I'm going to leave as patina. And the hole in the kick base is still there, but I'm going to install a bolt and washer there instead of dealing with filling and re-vinyling the front.

I'm calling this one done. Here are the final shots:

Mike A:
:cheers:

nexusmtz:
Looks great! Nice that you're able to get back to your old projects. :applaud:

opt2not:

--- Quote from: nexusmtz on November 11, 2019, 07:01:31 pm ---Looks great! Nice that you're able to get back to your old projects. :applaud:

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Thank you.
It's great to have the space again to work on this stuff. It's been years since I've had an area to really work in, and during that time I could only take on small projects, mostly electrical stuff rather than construction-based.

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