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beerbarrel:
250....working

Flake:

--- Quote from: beerbarrel on September 29, 2008, 10:52:27 am ---You paint right over the particle board?



--- Quote from: Flake on September 28, 2008, 09:13:07 pm ---You shouldnt have any problems removing the formica if you use a heat gun ($20 from Lowes).  I have also read where people have used a hairdryer.  This process loosens the glue and the formice just comes right off.  Once you have this off get a orbital sander and using fine grit sandpaper sand the whole thing down.  Then bondo the imperfections - make sure you do this in a ventilated areas as the stuff really stinks.  Bondo is fairly easy to use but it will start to set within 5 minutes or so depending on how well you mix it.   Once you have bondo'd up everything go ahead and resand everything again.  Once it was sanded I used a spray gun to apply the paint.

Overall, its a relatively easy process to fix up the exterior is you dont like the way it currently looks.  This is the process I went through.  It takes a little bit of time but honestly it looks like it came off an assembly line. 

Good luck

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Well the cabinet I used was a Killer Instinct cabinet and pretty sure it was MDF.  I know its not particle board.  I would bet yours in the same.  After you have it sanded and bondo'd I would apply a layer or two or primer but yea after that just paint right onto the wood.  If you have it sanded well enough (orital sander is a big help) it will look great.

Here are some pics of my cabinet prior to adding the CP to give you some perspective.

Jack Burton:
Damn, that is my favorite all time cabinet design.  Street Fighter players like me would kill for one those cabinets.  You could probably easily sell it if you posted it on shoryuken.com

Seeing it modified and turned to MAME lets me feel the same way that most guys do on here when someone puts SF2 in a Defender cabinet.

Ummon:
Tekken 4 uses a VGA monitor doesn't it? Or it might be a tri-sync.

Jack Burton:
Well, it's a conversion to Tekken 4, so it might just be set in 15khz mode.   I doubt they would change monitors unless they had to. It was originally a capcom cabinet, seen here:

http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1148&image=1

or perhaps more specifically it might have been one of these:

http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1148&image=2

since the marquee looks like those.

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