This is just a quick repair log on the state of my Galaga cabinet rebuild. Once I finally got a chance to get a good look at it, I was very surprised at how bad it really was. It had obviously been flooded at some pint in time. The base is badly swollen and the bottom piece of particle board was disintegrating. It had in fact cracked in half and had pulled away from the the sides. It was a mess.
The first thing I did was to remove the marquee and bezel, so they didn't get broken. The marquee is not great, but might be serviceable. The bezel just plain peeled all but a small border around the edge. I will need to scape it all off. I have an underlay to replace the original bezel art.
I then carefully removed the monitor and surprisingly it not only fired up, but the picture looked fantastic. So one less thing to worry about.
The bottom was the immediat issue. I removed the particle board and cut a replacement out of 3/4" plywood. Unfortunately, HD only had AA birch in 3/4" so the botton (where no one will ever see it) is a beautiful piece of cabinet grade birch ply (oh the irony).
These pics document the bottom replacement. As I get time and complete various things I will try to document those as well.
The original water damaged bottom.
Cab with bottom removed.
A better look at how bad the bottom was.
Bad picture of the new bottom.
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The first thing I did was to remove the marquee and bezel, so they didn't get broken. The marquee is not great, but might be serviceable. The bezel just plain peeled all but a small border around the edge. I will need to scape it all off. I have an underlay to replace the original bezel art.
I then carefully removed the monitor and surprisingly it not only fired up, but the picture looked fantastic. So one less thing to worry about.
The bottom was the immediat issue. I removed the particle board and cut a replacement out of 3/4" plywood. Unfortunately, HD only had AA birch in 3/4" so the botton (where no one will ever see it) is a beautiful piece of cabinet grade birch ply (oh the irony).
These pics document the bottom replacement. As I get time and complete various things I will try to document those as well.
The original water damaged bottom.
Cab with bottom removed.
A better look at how bad the bottom was.
Bad picture of the new bottom.
ken
