Food Fight mini-resto

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Thought I'd post up a few pics of the Food Fight I had shipped over from Frizzybear. I'm fixing this one up at the shop at work, so it's kind of getting a quickie resto rather than a full blown one.

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Pretty damn nice to start out with. You'll notice (I didn't until I got it, but still) it is a proto/early production with Chuck in a red shirt on all of the art. It had a couple of chunks of melamine missing, one missing leg leveler, a sloppy joystick, torn up CPO, and the monitor appeared to have the blue gun stuck on.
 

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Started off with the quick, minor stuff:

-LEDs in the coin door.
-New starter for fluorescent.
-New leg levelers and some bondo application.
-Stole another Matsushita monitor from a duplicate Millipede upright I had.
-Tore out the original white joystick, tossed in a black one built with NOS parts from Mylstar.

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Decided that - despite having new side art - I do not have time or ability in my situation to install new side art properly. So decided to pop my new biscuit joiner's cherry on this project. :D

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Big thanks to OU Flight for hooking me up with a few pieces of white melamine scrap for this btw.
 

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Current state of machine. Working, monitor adjusted. Newly joined bits routed, some bondo work done. And cleaned up the side with Magic Eraser.

Coming up will be a CPO swap (though I can only get the striped shirt version of art, the current CPO has to go). Also having OU Flight CNC me a new front.

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Nice so far... My cabinet is pretty nice however the back corners need a little TLC. I plan on repairing them at one point but as of right now I detailed it and put in the in the game room to enjoy.
 
Finished for now. Need to pull the joystick out and shorten the pin to see if it works better afterwards. I may replace the front piece/art and CPO soon when I get a chance (need to get my new air compressor secured to the foundation at the shop so I can fix up the CP in my new blasting cabinet).

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And one more of the other game in the company break room (gotta do the CPO on this one and a full resto eventually, but for now it's just too damn fun):

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Got a bit further with the resto before leaving the country again:

-Powder coated CP and installed new CPO (unfortunately doesn't match since the shirt on the repro overlay is striped, but the old CPO just had to go)
-Powder coated coin door, installed coinage inserts... but I broke two of the studs on the upper part of the door due to not using caps when powder coating... anyone got a Coin Controls upper door they might sell cheap so I can re-do that when I get back?
-Cleaned up the front art with Magic Eraser (though in the near future the front piece and art will be replaced).

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And a shot of the mini game room I've got setup up at work. ICB is going to get (at least) a mini resto soon as well. Does anybody make a repro of the TILT/info plexi insert??? Seems like these always have a big wear spot from people using the left side of the playfield to ascend.

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EDIT: And as for the blank spot between the two games? Warlords 4P cocktail! Just need to find the time to assemble all the parts I've collected (the metal has all been powder coated and the CPOs are installed, just need to do a lot of routing, priming, painting, and sealing, then assemble the repro cabinet).
 

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