1942 to Satans Hollow Restoration Part 1

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Hello, I figured I would post my progress on here for my Satans Hollow restoration project. I am not a professional whatsoever and this is the first restoration I have done, so I'd love to get feedback from you guys.

Today I was pleasantly surprised to see the original backlight was hiding underneath this ugly Romstar sticker! I carefully used a razor blade to remove it and used some goo-gone to get the sticker residue off. I temporarily installed the control panel as well to see how it would look all together. And so far looking way better! The art for this game is so beautiful.

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I have currently acquired most of the parts to fix this thing up already. I have gotten the two rare parts (CP and PCB). And even though it's not pictured, I do have an original handle as well I have yet to wire back together.

Even though the backlight is great news, I've uncovered some not so great news. Turns out the grey paint is not just covering the red paint, some maniac SANDED IT DOWN and then put the grey paint on. Satan was hand painted on the sides of these machines, so that I infuriating that I now have to replace him with a sticker instead, which I have found for sale online. Not a big deal, but definitely not what I wanted to hear. I was planning on using chemicals to strip the grey paint and hopefully restore that hand painted satan on the side.

There is a small portion of the machine that was not sanded, and I have been able to color match with some Home Depot paint cards. So we should be able to paint it very soon here.

Anyway, that's all for now. I'll be posting as I make progress. My next plan of action is to strip all 1942 parts, so if any of you are interested, I'll be posting them for sale very soon. It will include the CP, PCB, manual, some wiring I'm able to salvage, and the marquee. The CP is a satans hollow one that has been heavily modified to use 1942 controls and I was not able to salvage it for this game.

If any of you have any recommendations on painting, I would love to hear them. I may start sanding tomorrow if I have the time. Before any of you say it, I know not much profit will be made off of this. I just generally enjoy restoring things, I started with restoring old schwinn bicycles and somehow made it here. I think bringing back history is a really cool thing to do. I'm planning on making about $1,000 profit, but I expect there will be a lot of unexpected expenses as I move on. I also plan on keeping this machine for quite a while because it's just cool.

Thank you all for being nerds with me. If anyone wants this machine when I'm done, let me know. Like I said I'll keep it for a while but it would be a great buy knowing everything I did to it will be documented right here. In the ABQ, NM area.
 
Hell yeah. Curious what color you went with. I used "100 MPH" Red on mine. Super bummer about the side art man... I lucked out and mine was covered up with vinyl. I was able to save most of the art underneath. It's not perfect, but adds a nice patina anyways.

Is the light fixture/bracket under the upper control panel cover? If so, please take a photo of it for me.
 
Hell yeah. Curious what color you went with. I used "100 MPH" Red on mine. Super bummer about the side art man... I lucked out and mine was covered up with vinyl. I was able to save most of the art underneath. It's not perfect, but adds a nice patina anyways.

Is the light fixture/bracket under the upper control panel cover? If so, please take a photo of it for me.
I ended up choosing "whip lash". I also picked up 100 MPH, and it was a very close match. But comparing what was left on the machine, whip lash looked like a closer color at least in my opinion. There's a good chance mine is faded though, so I might do some more comparing with 100 MPH since you went with it.

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Is the bracket you're referring to this metal one? Or do you mean the one that would what actually hold the light behind the backlight? I've done some research and I think satans hollow actually never had a light installed in the back, even though that was the plan by midway. Tron had one, but I think for whatever reason midway decided to skip the light behind it. There is no bracket to hold it in behind mine.
 
I ended up choosing "whip lash". I also picked up 100 MPH, and it was a very close match. But comparing what was left on the machine, whip lash looked like a closer color at least in my opinion. There's a good chance mine is faded though, so I might do some more comparing with 100 MPH since you went with it.

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Is the bracket you're referring to this metal one? Or do you mean the one that would what actually hold the light behind the backlight? I've done some research and I think satans hollow actually never had a light installed in the back, even though that was the plan by midway. Tron had one, but I think for whatever reason midway decided to skip the light behind it. There is no bracket to hold it in behind mine.
Too add to that though, I'm obviously installing one. Just looks so cool lit up.
 
Too add to that though, I'm obviously installing one. Just looks so cool lit up.
Yeah, the actual fixture that holds the bulb. It had one for sure - it's the same one Tron uses. It's the one thing on mine that isn't correct (oh, and it has a GORF insert in the flightstick - I have one on the way tho). But, it works well:

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Weird to me that the fixture maybe didn't ship with it... it's in the manual and every one I've seen in person has had it, granted, that's only a handful. Gotta think most operators would be to lazy to add it lol. I'm no expert though.
 
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Yeah, the actual fixture that holds the bulb. It had one for sure - it's the same one Tron uses. It's the one thing on mine that isn't correct (oh, and it has a GORF insert in the flightstick - I have one on the way tho). But, it works well:

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Weird to me that the fixture maybe didn't ship with it... it's in the manual and every one I've seen in person has had it, granted, that's only a handful. Gotta think most operators would be to lazy to add it lol. I'm no expert though.
Interesting, yeah I'm no expert either lol. They might've actually had it. Upon further inspection on mine, it looks like something was installed at one point behind the backlight board. There are three screw holes

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Definitely something I will add to it. I always thought the backlight was installed by people just because Tron had one. In my opinion, I didn't like that it's a purple light. There's not really any purple on the cab so it looks a little out of place. But if it is original I will definitely add a purple light.
 
The joystick glows in UV. A Red "Blacklight" would be badass. Not sure if that's a thing or not. I've seen folks put red LED in there. That looks kinda neat, but a glowing joystick looks cooler IMO :ROFLMAO:
 
The joystick glows in UV. A Red "Blacklight" would be badass. Not sure if that's a thing or not. I've seen folks put red LED in there. That looks kinda neat, but a glowing joystick looks cooler IMO :ROFLMAO:
That is true. I didn't realize the joystick glows. Definitely installing a black light then. That is pretty cool.
 
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