Another Pacman Restoration
Hi folks - I've been working on this one for a few weeks now and decided to get a post together. First off, a few disclaimers that will forever destroy my reputation with the purists.
** I've fully jammatized this cab and made it into a 60-1. My original thinking was this: I got into this hobby with the intent of having two or three of my all time favorites in the garage, and that was it. The more I read here, the more I wanted a chance to own and play the classics: Pac, DK, Galaga…etc. I like original cabs, as opposed to MAME or generic multi-cades, so I picked the most original/classic game I could come up with, hence the Pac. I still have all of the original components, but the board, PS and harness have all been replaced.
** I used only spray (can) paint, even on the cabinet, and I know it's sacrilege. I researched a ton of Pac restoration around the web. Talon and Spyridon's restorations with automotive paints are incredible, and Prok has posted lots of good Pac related advice as well. He recommended Krylon Sun Yellow as a perfect match, and was right. I believe the original advice was to use this color, but have it mixed and spray with an HVLP set-up. Krylon has a new can, with a new nozzle that sprays in a two dimensional triangle shape, as opposed to the three dimensional cone shape. I did a bunch of experimenting and found that with careful attention to the speed I moved and distance from the cab, and by allowing just a few minutes between very thin coats, I got a perfectly smooth, even surface. So the yellow and black on the cab are all rattle-canned.
I started off with a Pacman, converted to Pac-Plus, I found on Ebay a mere 90 miles away. It was in the normal, 30 year old beat up shape:
Pulled out all of the old components: A Pacman plus marquee, a Galaxian bezel, harness, power supply, and a very burnt monitor. I sanded down the entire cab three times over, going from 60 to 120 to 220 grit, and filled bolt holes and nicks with bondo.
Then the paint; again, all spray paint: Two coats of primer, sanding after with a 400 grit paper. Grey for the inside and white for the outside. Then the Sun Yellow for the outside and Satin Black for the inside. Finally a new set of orange T-molding.
I added this custom Pac CPO to an arcade-shop multi trackball control panel, along with an Ultimarc 4-way / 8-way switchable joystick, Pacman color themed buttons and a 2 1/4" Happ trackball. Installed a new 19" monitor, new marquee and new bezel. I'm not the creator of the any of these Pac items, but the folks who are and those who helped me get them wish to remain anonymous due to the silly situation with Pac art. They all have my thanks. After sanding and repainting the coin door, speaker grill and marquee brackets, it's all coming together nicely.
** I call this in-progress because I'm still working on a set of stencils, and have yet to do the art, but I'll get to that soon.
The full set of pictures with more description is here: http://picasaweb.google.com/111266840651647091981/Pacman?feat=directlink
Too long!...thanks much for reading.
Hi folks - I've been working on this one for a few weeks now and decided to get a post together. First off, a few disclaimers that will forever destroy my reputation with the purists.
** I've fully jammatized this cab and made it into a 60-1. My original thinking was this: I got into this hobby with the intent of having two or three of my all time favorites in the garage, and that was it. The more I read here, the more I wanted a chance to own and play the classics: Pac, DK, Galaga…etc. I like original cabs, as opposed to MAME or generic multi-cades, so I picked the most original/classic game I could come up with, hence the Pac. I still have all of the original components, but the board, PS and harness have all been replaced.
** I used only spray (can) paint, even on the cabinet, and I know it's sacrilege. I researched a ton of Pac restoration around the web. Talon and Spyridon's restorations with automotive paints are incredible, and Prok has posted lots of good Pac related advice as well. He recommended Krylon Sun Yellow as a perfect match, and was right. I believe the original advice was to use this color, but have it mixed and spray with an HVLP set-up. Krylon has a new can, with a new nozzle that sprays in a two dimensional triangle shape, as opposed to the three dimensional cone shape. I did a bunch of experimenting and found that with careful attention to the speed I moved and distance from the cab, and by allowing just a few minutes between very thin coats, I got a perfectly smooth, even surface. So the yellow and black on the cab are all rattle-canned.
I started off with a Pacman, converted to Pac-Plus, I found on Ebay a mere 90 miles away. It was in the normal, 30 year old beat up shape:
Pulled out all of the old components: A Pacman plus marquee, a Galaxian bezel, harness, power supply, and a very burnt monitor. I sanded down the entire cab three times over, going from 60 to 120 to 220 grit, and filled bolt holes and nicks with bondo.
Then the paint; again, all spray paint: Two coats of primer, sanding after with a 400 grit paper. Grey for the inside and white for the outside. Then the Sun Yellow for the outside and Satin Black for the inside. Finally a new set of orange T-molding.
I added this custom Pac CPO to an arcade-shop multi trackball control panel, along with an Ultimarc 4-way / 8-way switchable joystick, Pacman color themed buttons and a 2 1/4" Happ trackball. Installed a new 19" monitor, new marquee and new bezel. I'm not the creator of the any of these Pac items, but the folks who are and those who helped me get them wish to remain anonymous due to the silly situation with Pac art. They all have my thanks. After sanding and repainting the coin door, speaker grill and marquee brackets, it's all coming together nicely.
** I call this in-progress because I'm still working on a set of stencils, and have yet to do the art, but I'll get to that soon.
The full set of pictures with more description is here: http://picasaweb.google.com/111266840651647091981/Pacman?feat=directlink
Too long!...thanks much for reading.
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