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I don't think I ever document the stuff I work on, enough, to post a before and after. But it's fun seeing the progress, so I might do more of these. -shrug-

I never wanted to own a DK, but I got stuck with one. Thankfully it only took 3 weeks of work to get it into presentable condition while working on the DKJR in parallel & was able to bring them to Zapcon.

Pretty much every aesthetic aspect of the cabinet was messed up; T-Molding was missing chunks, Marquee was drilled, CPO cracked, Instruction sticker above CPO was water damaged, Side art was torn on both sides, cabinet had been repainted & bondo'd already (very poorly), missing coin door mechs & faceplates, coin door frame was so messed up it was nearly impossible to open, backdoor was a wreck, micro switches were dead.

Pulled about 3lbs of un-needed screws and bolts from the cabinet, that were used for poorly thought out repairs by previous owners.

Rebuilt that bizarre[*] pop-rivet coin door so it would actually open, bondo'd, sanded, spray painted the blue using latex. (you can't get oil anymore!), painted the black with 2X rattle-can.

[*] Bizarre in the sense that it was so difficult to assemble and was overly complex compared to other nintendo doors. It's was cool the see the pop rivet design though. Don't see that often.

The pictures below make the cabinet look nicer than it really was.

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A small sample of the bondo work done by a previous owner. Bondo wasn't mixed well and failed to completely fill in any of the forty something holes in the cabinet. They clearly were frustrated and gave up
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Couldn't save the marquee. I tried my best to glue back down the lifted edges of the instruction sticker and coat it with semi-gloss.

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They drilled a hole through just about everything on this cabinet. They drilled half a hole through the SN plate for some bizarre vertical back-door locking bar. Beyond me why they didn't just move the drill down a half inch lower to make drilling easier. Someone needs to explain to me why they also installed a piece of plastic to "protect" it. - facepalm -

Wood below the backdoor had about a little less than half of the top layer missing and someone tried using about 12 screws to keep what was remaining, attached.

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Tons more holes drilled though the control panel face board. Thankfully the speaker teeth weren't knocked out.
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