Exidy Venture -- vinyl question

TimothyC

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Can a few of the Venture owners here verify something for me?

How noticeable is the texture, if there is one on the sides, kick, and monitor areas? If I were to cut a new cab in white melamine, would that be sufficient for the sides or is the vinyl heavily textured? Lastly, would you say that the texture for both the front and sides is the same or do the sides and front have different textures?

I've read Happ pica vinyl is a good replacement, but at this point I'm thinking of going with white melamine for the sides and thisoldgame's matt black for the front areas so all surfaces will be mostly smooth. Basically the thought of covering white melamine to add just a tiny bit of texture doesn't make sense to me, but I don't have the cab in front of me so I would like to hear what others think. Thanks in advance for your help :).
 
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the white vinyl on the outer sides of the cab is smooth. The coin door kick panel area is also smooth and black in color. I don't actually think this is vinyl. I believe it's laminate. The inner side area of the cab meaning the black vinyl visible in the monitor area on the left and right as well as the speaker area and the angled panel behind the speaker area that meets the bezel is all covered in black pica vinyl just like happ sells.


the areas shown in these pics get the black pica vinyl
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I've discussed this with VAN several months back when trying to decide on what to do with my Pepper II restoration. According to her Black Morocco Vinyl is the way to go and the only place I can seem to located it is Quarter Arcade...

http://www.quarterarcade.com/Game.aspx/4479

I haven't been able to get back to any restorations right now to decide if in fact I need to replace the black vinyl yet or can just give it a good cleaning (looks to all be there but might need to replace it on the front kick area).

I've also talked to a few people about the white vinyl on the sides and on my Venture and Mouse Trap (No longer own) the white vinyl was smooth. VAN and a couple of others told me that theirs was more of a texture finish (think Galaxian)... Seeing my other two Exidy's that I've had in my possession were smooth I plan on sanding, repairing, painting, wet sand and applying smooth vinyl from This Old Game to the sides.
 
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