I just finished restoring the Donkey Kong Junior that I picked up this summer. Here are a few "before" pics:
Here's what I did:
- built a new cabinet base
- cleaned the power supply and wiring, put a new plug on the power cord
- repainted cabinet rear, top and backdoor with Tremclad flat black (brushed)
- repainted coin door, base and interior sides of cabinet with Tremclad semi-gloss black (rattle can)
- filled scratches, repaired missing chucks of cabinet edges and corners with Bondo
- primed with Zinsser BIN and sanded smooth
- painted orange with oil-based semigloss (rolled on)
- applied new side art
- installed new t-molding
- rebuilt joystick, added new ball top
- installed new CPO, instruction card, added new buttons
- installed new fluorescent bulb and starter
- put on new coin door and bezel decals from thisoldgame.com
- cleaned the marquee and bezel using Novus
- programmed and installed EPROMs with souzilla's freeplay files
And this is how it looks now:
I made a Flickr set with lots more progress pics if anyone's interested:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/delroy666/sets/72157625289521406/
Compared to the Pac-Man, this one seemed easy. =) I was a little concerned with rolling paint on a Nintendo cab, but I was pleasantly surprised how nice and smooth it turned out. I've since taken the monitor out to do a cap kit, but otherwise it's done!
Here's what I did:
- built a new cabinet base
- cleaned the power supply and wiring, put a new plug on the power cord
- repainted cabinet rear, top and backdoor with Tremclad flat black (brushed)
- repainted coin door, base and interior sides of cabinet with Tremclad semi-gloss black (rattle can)
- filled scratches, repaired missing chucks of cabinet edges and corners with Bondo
- primed with Zinsser BIN and sanded smooth
- painted orange with oil-based semigloss (rolled on)
- applied new side art
- installed new t-molding
- rebuilt joystick, added new ball top
- installed new CPO, instruction card, added new buttons
- installed new fluorescent bulb and starter
- put on new coin door and bezel decals from thisoldgame.com
- cleaned the marquee and bezel using Novus
- programmed and installed EPROMs with souzilla's freeplay files
And this is how it looks now:
I made a Flickr set with lots more progress pics if anyone's interested:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/delroy666/sets/72157625289521406/
Compared to the Pac-Man, this one seemed easy. =) I was a little concerned with rolling paint on a Nintendo cab, but I was pleasantly surprised how nice and smooth it turned out. I've since taken the monitor out to do a cap kit, but otherwise it's done!

