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Arcade Collecting => Restorations & repair => Topic started by: bplail on September 25, 2015, 09:16:39 am

Title: Nintendo coin door
Post by: bplail on September 25, 2015, 09:16:39 am

I'm doing a donkey kong jr build and I cant seem to find a coin door.
I've seen a few nintendo restores in here and was hoping I could get some measurements off of someone with an original coin door in mm to possibly recreate one. I have access to a laser cutter at the moment so I was hoping to be able to cut the parts out and put it together.
Thanks

Title: Re: Nintendo coin door
Post by: ChanceKJ on September 26, 2015, 04:51:34 pm

Well, you really only have two good options, find an old used one on eBay/KLOV, or buy a reproduction.  The Takeman repros are all said and gone, so I think you're going to have to order it from overseas.

http://www.plonkagames.co.uk/products.html (http://www.plonkagames.co.uk/products.html)

I've got a couple of them here, and honestly, for the time/effort I know it's going to take to reproduce one, even I wouldn't bother. Just spend the money and get one.

Title: Re: Nintendo coin door
Post by: yotsuya on September 26, 2015, 04:53:55 pm

KJ is right. It's a pretty unique door, and anything else just doesn't look right. Spend the funds and get one.

I'd at least hit KLOV and see if anyone is selling a used one. That's how I got mine.

Title: Re: Nintendo coin door
Post by: bplail on September 27, 2015, 08:00:07 pm

Quote from: ChanceKJ on September 26, 2015, 04:51:34 pm

Well, you really only have two good options, find an old used one on eBay/KLOV, or buy a reproduction.  The Takeman repros are all said and gone, so I think you're going to have to order it from overseas.

http://www.plonkagames.co.uk/products.html (http://www.plonkagames.co.uk/products.html)

Thanks I'll give KLOV a try. I got a quote on shipping from plonkagames and it's nearly $200 all up for the door and shipping to Australia :/
I'm in the process of joining the KLOV forum now