Burgertime Restoration, A First Game

[ManiN]

So I picked up a horrible conversion to Big Event Golf from the infamous Burgertime. It was my first game, and wasn't sure what to do with it until I researched just how cool a restored Burgertime really was. Looking through other restorations online and here, I decided to start collecting parts and art for the restoration.

Here is a shot of the cab just before sanding.

Some Parts from the horrible conversion

Sanding started

Revealing the magic underneath

 

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Further sanding

The start of cabinet repair, such as loose bracket / fasteners.

Filling in the old coin door lock bar holes.

 

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Sanding Finished

Typical bondo repair on basically all edges.

Restoration of the control panel was necessary to bring the center back to house a joystick instead of a roller ball.

Needed a new florescent light.

 

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First kilz for the primer

Many many coats of color matched paint

Stencil work starts

 

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Looking good!

Kickpanel art installation

Homemade switcher adaptor

 

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Bench testing the guts

Components installed and running well

And finally, a pretty much brand new Burgertime!!
Thanks to all that helped throughout the process on recent board issues etc.

 

[TheDrewster]

Beautiful!!!!!

 

[gutsman004]

Outstanding! Simply OUTSTANDING! Seeing threads like this inspire me to do better with my current restoration and for future restorations as well!

 

[dc2010]

woooooooooooooooooooow..........now im hungary!!!!

 

[TheDrewster]

woooooooooooooooooooow..........now im hungary!!!!

Sorry, cant resist.

 

[Brick Top]

Beautiful! Most excellent.

 

[dc2010]

lol drew get me a burger

 

[TheShanMan]

Nice work Jake. That thing is beautiful!

 

[MIKE96]

wow! great work it looks amazing

 

[CalifTom]

Love it, Love it, Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[gregatron]

That is a perfect example of how it's done. Great work sir, admirable to say the least.
It looks like you whipped those stencils out in no time. Beautiful!!!

 

[ManiN]

Hey thanks for all the great comments guys! It was a pretty long process. I had to put it down and pick it up a lot because of other projects that took precedence. I'm glad it's finally done though!

 

[TimothyC]

Looks great! Out of curiosity, how many hours do you think the entire process took?

 

[ManiN]

I really have no idea. I can say it is a long process to do it right. The sanding and bondo took a week or so of sanding and reapplying bondo. Party that was my fault in learning to goop it and wait rather than skim it a hundred times. The primer took 2 coats, yellow was like 5. Each coat takes an hour to apply by roller. I had time in fixing the monitor which had a faulty HOT I diagnosed. Time in stencils is really high too. Probably one evening per stencil on average. Touch up wasn't bad. the rest came together in about 2 weeks or so. So really the time is in the cab prep and paint. I've had the unit since Aug. 09, but work was very sparatic.

 

[Phetishboy]

Awesome work. Makes me wish mine was converted rather than in nice original shape. I love bringing them back from the dead, but I hate tearing apart decent looking original cabs just to redo what's already there. That adapter is great, wish I had one of those. Mine's still running on the original power supply. Again, Awesome work. If you can restore one of these cabs, you can pretty much restore anything.