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Boingo:
Sounds expensive and time consuming enough to make $75.00 laminate contact cement and renting a trimmer look good again.

Is it really all that hard to paint plywood?

One of the real arcade machines I have is a Williams Robotron, sadly, converted to Street Fighter 2, and that cabinet is painted plywood.

The project is meant to be as cheap s possible.  The cabinet is not going to contain a real arcade motherboard and monitor, nor a computer with MAME running.  I am actually planning on filling it with one of those Plug and Play games and an old Commodore 64 monitor. 

A MAME machine is in the plans, and so is a properly wired JAMMA machine, but this one is intended as a cheapie practice run before I start work on either of those.
mrclean:

--- Quote from: Boingo on May 03, 2009, 02:56:49 pm ---Sounds expensive and time consuming enough to make $75.00 laminate contact cement and renting a trimmer look good again.

Is it really all that hard to paint plywood?

One of the real arcade machines I have is a Williams Robotron, sadly, converted to Street Fighter 2, and that cabinet is painted plywood.


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I painted a williams robotron 2084 which was converted to bubble bobble.. which I kept it a bubble bobble. I used "Paint Thinner", & "Paint, rolled 5 coats" you can convert It back to Robotron if you wanted to.

you might want to check out this website TONS of restoration pics of Robotron 2084:
http://www.2coinsperplay.com/Games/Robotron%20Restore/ROBOTRON%20RESTORE%201.html

Part 2: http://www.2coinsperplay.com/Games/Robotron%20Restore/ROBOTRON%20RESTORE%202.html

Bottom of this page explains more in detail.. http://www.adamsarcade.com/restoration.html
Boingo:
Any suggestions for what kind of paint to use?
drventure:
Another thread here mentioned "spray bondo" you can pick up at pep boys or other auto places.

I haven't tried it (yet) but from what was said, sounds like it works pretty good.
IG-88:
Go with the mud. A little work but very cheap. As far as the laminate tho, how much could it be? Just do the exposed surfaces.
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