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Spyridon:
Probably a bit premature to be posting this as I won't get to it for a while, but I pickeed up a Gauntlet cab today.  Gauntlet was always one of my favorites back in the mid 80's.  I put a lot of quarters into it.


Left side is in pretty good shape.  The black vinyl is peeling is spots, but the side art is in pretty good shape

The right side is also in okay shape.  The top art work is ripped off and again the black vinyl is peeling all around.  Unfortunately, the previous owners kid decided to peel a good chunk of artwork off about an hour before I picked up the game.  It's just taped back on right now.


Upper marquee looks to be in good shape and just needs a cleaning

If I find problems with it, arcadeshop does have a repro:


**EDIT: I cleaned up the marquee and that mark on the left side came right off.  I'll be fine with the original one!

Control panel is in rough shape.  Hopefully it will clean up with a little elbow grease as there are not any good repro CPO's available.  Definitely needs some new ribbed t-molding


Front is in good shape but the decal has marks on it from the control panel.  The control panel opens up and has a metal piece that lets you hook it on the front of the cab in an upright position.  That has caused the marks on the decal.

I'll probably replace this with one from arcadeshop:


Monitor has your typical Gauntlet burn in on the right side, but the picture is nice and bright


Nice looking Atari logo sticks


I need to look into the sticks as a couple of them are not hitting a few of the diaganols.  I've never seen this type of stick before.



Still has the settings sheet on the inside



Control panel is just sitting on top in the pictures, it does push down correctly.

Spyridon:
Can someone tell me about these joysticks


For leaf sticks, there is a lot going on there.  What's going on inside those big bases?

GaryMcT:
Congrats!!!!  Awesome game.

Spyridon:
I used a magic eraser on the control panel.  While it did a great job bringing back a nice bright color to most of the panel, it was no match for the big stain  :'(
Here is the before and after (doesn't show well in the pictures, but looks much better in person)


I may decide to go ink jet and get a replacement from arcadeoverlays.  The big issue is that the original CPO has a texture to it that won't be reproduced on the inkjet.

They have everything availble in inkjet at arcadeoverlays but the sideart is missing the extra skulls at the top:


The game was really wobbly so I decided to take a look underneath.  Missing two of the legs

I replaced them with these nylon castors which are really incredible.  This game moves around really easy on the concrete with these on it.

I was missing the t-nut (I think that is what it is) that one of the legs screws into.  Where can I pick one of these up?

I also took a better look at the cab.  Definitely need to do some work on the back support

Kevin Mullins:
Great game.... that one oughta clean up nicely.   :cheers:

Try a little "Super Clean" on that control panel or one of them "Citrus" type cleaners.
The Super Clean does a pretty good job on stuff like that. Be warned it may irritate your skin though. (I've used it so many years now it doesn't bother me....mechanic)
Just all depends on what caused that stain.

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