First off, the little stuff. Today, I got my shipment from Happ. In it were two blue coin return buttons, two blue LED replacement lights and.... 100 brass tokens! As soon as I got home from work, I tested the tokens for fit and they worked perfect. Then I dismantled the coin door and installed the blue buttons. Once they were in place, I mounted the LEDs and wired them for 12v power, I may have gone a bit overboard with the wires for the 12v. But because I wire trailers for work with 16 gauge wire, I decided to play it safe and wire the 12v in the Cab w/ 16 gauge as well.
Blue Buttons and LEDs
Happ Brass Tokens (Not as cool as Arcade Replay Tokens... but they work.)
Coin Door w/ Blue Buttons
Wiring the LEDs for power
Once the coin door was set and out of the way, I painted another coat of Blue on the dark sections of the lines. This covered any light areas and I let them sit for about an hour or so. After which, I peeled the tape away! The only thing that needs to be done with the sides are the Black outlines and the white stripe in the graphic. I also have a little bit of touch up to do on the sides where paint seeped under the tape on accident.
Behold! Near complete side art!
And another view
When I got back to my apartment tonight, I gathered my PC and began gutting it and mounting it to the PC board using PCB feet and corner brackets. I removed any wiring and pieces that were unneeded, such as the front USB ports, headphone and mic jacks. etc. After it was all said and done, I hooked the boarded PC back up to my desktop monitor to make sure everything loaded up correctly, which it did!
This means that all that is really left to do is finish painting the sides and to order out the graphics. I think I'll be heading to Kinkos sometime this week and ordering the CPO. But I am going to order my Marquee from mamemarquees, Ultimate finish, with two pieces of plexi.
A noble sacrifice.
The PC gutted, and ready for mounting.
All PC components mounted in place.
IT'S ALIIIIIVE! MWAHAHAHA
Tomorrow I will bring the PC to the garage and hook it up, wire the 12v and ground for the lights into the harness for the Power Supply and wire in the power switch to the pushbutton mounted on the top of the cab.