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Title: best way to remove paint from cabinet to preserve sideart?
Post by: Magnet_Eye on October 02, 2002, 08:11:32 pm

I have a tempest cabinet. someone painted gray over the sideart. Some of the paint has flaked off and you can see the sideart peeking through. how can I remove the paint without damaging the sideart?

Thanks.

Title: Re:best way to remove paint from cabinet to preserve sideart?
Post by: delta88 on October 02, 2002, 10:31:22 pm

go to my site..i did that with a mspacman game... I use a scrapper first but later used a torch..I explain all with picutres on my site..
thanks
delta88

Title: Re:best way to remove paint from cabinet to preserve sideart?
Post by: MrArcade on October 02, 2002, 11:01:02 pm

I rescued a Defender and an NBA Jam.  I used Goof Off to remove the paint.  It takes a lot of rubbing...and you have to watch it or it will remove the original art too....

Here are Defender pics:
http://home.woh.rr.com/ultimatearcade/markiv/markiv.htm

Title: Re:best way to remove paint from cabinet to preserve sideart?
Post by: Chris on October 03, 2002, 03:38:09 pm

Quote from: Magnet_Eye on October 02, 2002, 08:11:32 pm

I have a tempest cabinet. someone painted gray over the sideart. Some of the paint has flaked off and you can see the sideart peeking through. how can I remove the paint without damaging the sideart?

This just makes me ill... Painting over Tempest sideart should be a felony!

--Chris

(No sideart was harmed in the making of my cabinet... it had already been stripped off by the time I got it.)