So after months of stalking CL/eBay/KLOV, I finally came across an After Burner upright cabinet for my home office. Wasn't the prettiest thing by far, and by KLOV standards is overpriced – but strangely, decent cabinets are hard to come by in Phoenix for a decent price. I have yet to grab the elusive 1943 in the 19" Dynamo cab I also would like to have…
The game played fine – joystick needed centering. Already installed a new pot and works beeautifully. Monitor didn't have any burn-in, recently capped. Shaker motor didn't work. Cabinet was rough – no side art (removed and painted a gloss gray) – lower vinyl was literally falling off the cabinet. Pedestal footings were rotted out, and the edges of the main cab needed some filler to return the side to the appropriate contour.
Now, I would have preferred a cab with perfect sideart – nowhere to be found. I mistakenly thought repro side art was available - also nowhere to be found – more on that later. It was my initial intent to rewrap the cabinet in vinyl, but of course the widest part of the cabinet was 25 inches… and for the life of me I could not find vinyl wider than 24 inches. So, lamination was the next option, except I have never touched the stuff and I had never used a router.
So here she was in original condition when I brought her home:
Bezel decals are damaged – manageable, but still crappy looking. The clear bezel has some scratches from some enterprising punk – hoping these will buff out. Bezel overall would be fine to use except I for an obvious cigarette burn that would bug the hell out of me for a long time, and someone used a generic red plexiglass for the warning lamp covers. Would probably pass for Laundromat use, I suppose?
So, spent the past month sourcing NOS parts – scored all the bezel decals and warning lamp cover in NOS form from a few different places, as well as a replacement console and an extra bezel – all on the cheap! Grabbed a couple sheets of Wilsonart vertical grade laminate from the local WilsonArt distributor for $14/sheet, and stopped by Home Depot for a sheet of 3/4" MDF.
The game played fine – joystick needed centering. Already installed a new pot and works beeautifully. Monitor didn't have any burn-in, recently capped. Shaker motor didn't work. Cabinet was rough – no side art (removed and painted a gloss gray) – lower vinyl was literally falling off the cabinet. Pedestal footings were rotted out, and the edges of the main cab needed some filler to return the side to the appropriate contour.
Now, I would have preferred a cab with perfect sideart – nowhere to be found. I mistakenly thought repro side art was available - also nowhere to be found – more on that later. It was my initial intent to rewrap the cabinet in vinyl, but of course the widest part of the cabinet was 25 inches… and for the life of me I could not find vinyl wider than 24 inches. So, lamination was the next option, except I have never touched the stuff and I had never used a router.
So here she was in original condition when I brought her home:
Bezel decals are damaged – manageable, but still crappy looking. The clear bezel has some scratches from some enterprising punk – hoping these will buff out. Bezel overall would be fine to use except I for an obvious cigarette burn that would bug the hell out of me for a long time, and someone used a generic red plexiglass for the warning lamp covers. Would probably pass for Laundromat use, I suppose?
So, spent the past month sourcing NOS parts – scored all the bezel decals and warning lamp cover in NOS form from a few different places, as well as a replacement console and an extra bezel – all on the cheap! Grabbed a couple sheets of Wilsonart vertical grade laminate from the local WilsonArt distributor for $14/sheet, and stopped by Home Depot for a sheet of 3/4" MDF.
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