Dig Dug Cabaret Restoration/ Facelift

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So I bought a Dig Dug Cabaret a while back with the sole intention of cleaning it up and throwing it straight into the gameroom.

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That's when I discovered that the Rats of Nimh had been using it as a summer place. Several months later, and it still hasn't left the garage, as I am still cleaning and restoring parts of this machine. Things done so far:

-cleaned and sanitized the cab interior
-Restored the Power/transformer assembly
-Built and installed a marquee light assembly, loosely based on a factory original
-Revinyled the roof
-restored and revinyled the lower back piece
-repainted the back door
-cleaned and repainted the black paper monitor bezel
-restored and repainted the coin box housing

Left to do:

-Restore the coin door
-restore the service panel
-new t-molding
-replace eygo monitor chassis with a G07 chassis
-remove the credit button and install a new CPO
 
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Looks nice..don't see many cabaret dig dugs....I like that you put new vinyl on those parts of the cab you restored...did you spray a primer or anything before applying the vinyl or just sand smooth...?
 
Restored the 'command center'. Decided to paint it dig dug yellow.

Before:

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After:

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And installed on the newly painted coin box:

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I really like your cab - I have a Euro one.

Mine has an Atari cone for the service button, as did my friend's Fast Freddie. Not sure if that was factory though...

Where are you going to get your CPO from?
 
I really like your cab - I have a Euro one.

Mine has an Atari cone for the service button, as did my friend's Fast Freddie. Not sure if that was factory though...

Where are you going to get your CPO from?

There was a limited screened run of the CPOs done sometime last year. The gentleman who sold me this machine has one and is going to sell it to me soon.
 
I hate to go into Debbie Downer mode. ;) But, something to consider: the image on the side art order request card, though far better than nothing, might not be what the actual side art ended up looking like. It might've just been a quick conceptual drawing done for the card as an example for the buyer...
 
I hate to go into Debbie Downer mode. ;) But, something to consider: the image on the side art order request card, though far better than nothing, might not be what the actual side art ended up looking like. It might've just been a quick conceptual drawing done for the card as an example for the buyer...

It's all we've got until Scott comes up with the films (if they even exist). A depiction of the cabaret side art, done BITD by the actual company selling it, even if only a line drawing and perhaps slightly different than what was actually going to be printed, is better than just making something up, no? This is a rare occurrence to have an actual factory depiction of something thought not to have actually existed.
 
An update to this thread finally. I was able, with the help of Ms. Chrissy, to remove the Eygo chassis and install a proper G07 chassis into this machine. The eygo chassis was mounted to the opposite wall and had wires extended across the cab to the tube and looked retarded:
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The G07 chassis was properly mounted into the monitor frame. The picture is a thousand times better. I'll post pics of the new chassis mounted and the picture quality when I get the chance.
 
Very nice! As an owner of one of the few known Dig Dug cabaret machines left in existence, I commend you on your beautiful restoration work.
 
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