joetechbob
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I managed to get myself into another project. 
I picked up a non-working Asteroids cocktail table with water damage (swelling) on the side door, rust in all the right places and a missing wood panel for the top surface (apparently the wood panel was thrown away due to really severe water damage). Current plans are to restore the cabinet to the best of my abilities
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First question for you guys (wasn't able to find this by just searching): Does anyone know the dimensions for the wood panel that forms the top surface? I still have the top glass, so I would have the outer dimensions, but I would be guestimating on the interior dimensions.
Second question: What's my best bet for matching the wood grain vinyl from elsewhere on the cabinet? I saw some people had recommended a certain variety of Fermica (can't seem to find in my notes what it was called).
Third question: The speaker grill is slightly dented so I would like to straighten it out--what in the hell kind of fastener did Atari use to mount in the grill? Looks almost like something that was glued in and I didn't want to break anything in the process of attempting to remove the grill.
Fourth question: What would be my best bet for fabricating the heavily damaged side door? I haven't yet determined what the thickness of the door needs to be, but I was thinking my cheapest/best route might be to buy some white laminated MDF and spray-paint it black. My other thought was to potentially use plywood and actually laminate it with some decent quality vinyl. Thoughts?
Fifth question: The cabinet came with a piece of smoked plexi to cover the monitor. Did the cabinet originally come with that or was someone just trying to compensate for the burn-in on the monitor. I ask as I'm thinking the smoked plexi may significantly cut into the brightness of the vector monitor.
Thanks!
I picked up a non-working Asteroids cocktail table with water damage (swelling) on the side door, rust in all the right places and a missing wood panel for the top surface (apparently the wood panel was thrown away due to really severe water damage). Current plans are to restore the cabinet to the best of my abilities
First question for you guys (wasn't able to find this by just searching): Does anyone know the dimensions for the wood panel that forms the top surface? I still have the top glass, so I would have the outer dimensions, but I would be guestimating on the interior dimensions.
Second question: What's my best bet for matching the wood grain vinyl from elsewhere on the cabinet? I saw some people had recommended a certain variety of Fermica (can't seem to find in my notes what it was called).
Third question: The speaker grill is slightly dented so I would like to straighten it out--what in the hell kind of fastener did Atari use to mount in the grill? Looks almost like something that was glued in and I didn't want to break anything in the process of attempting to remove the grill.
Fourth question: What would be my best bet for fabricating the heavily damaged side door? I haven't yet determined what the thickness of the door needs to be, but I was thinking my cheapest/best route might be to buy some white laminated MDF and spray-paint it black. My other thought was to potentially use plywood and actually laminate it with some decent quality vinyl. Thoughts?
Fifth question: The cabinet came with a piece of smoked plexi to cover the monitor. Did the cabinet originally come with that or was someone just trying to compensate for the burn-in on the monitor. I ask as I'm thinking the smoked plexi may significantly cut into the brightness of the vector monitor.
Thanks!
