After my Asteroids restore, I was anxious to find my next project. I have two grails that I need in my collection, Centipede and Street Fighter 2 World Warrior. It was a close battle, but Street Fighter won this round.
The search began for a Dynamo HS2 cabinet, might came up pretty quick...thank you Sasha! Unfortunately it had been in a shed for more than a decade, and was not a pristine example, but decent enough to be saved. It came with a Golden Tee in it, and amazingly enough, worked when I powered it up.
The tear down began shortly after getting it home. The Golden Tee pcb, bezel and marquee sold quickly. All the wiring came out as did the side art with help from a heat gun. You could see a little of the particle board texture on the side, so this was going to need to be fully sanded down before painting. I wanted this cabinet to be as similar as possible to what it would have been in the early 90s so I want it to be painted. If the finish just isn't up to my standards, screw it, it will get laminated.
Structurally the cabinet was good, but given the environment it lived it I thought it best that the whole inside get wiped down with a mold inhibitor. I didn't find anything on the inside, which was surprisingly clean. The only area I found a trace of mould was along the inner of the plywood base. Even after a thorough scrubbing, this was going to bug me. Off with base! A new base was build and gave me the opportunity to put a fresh set of levelling legs on.
The monitor washed up ok, but has some burn in. I tried swapping in a new tube, but the neck wasn't quite right and couldn't get the yoke pushed down far enough. All the originals were put back on. I'll source a burn free monitor and use this one on the test bench.
I picked up two Street Fighter PCBs, one World Warrior, the other Hyperfighting. The WW pcb worked just fine, and after a wash and a dry, was ready go. The HF board had a known graphics issue, but came with burned HF chips....fingers crossed those are the problem.
Back to the cabinet, after a ton of sanding I primed it by rolling a Zinzer oil based primer. Looked promising until I had to sand it. F me! Never ever ever again will I roll primer. Killed a whole sandpaper forrest.
Taking a break from painting I went and saw my buddy's Dad who does body work to weld up my control panel so we could drill out the proper six hole placement. As far as I can tell he cut out the piece of metal, then used some sort of English wheel to creat a lip for greater surface area to be welded. He's also going to weld studs onto the inside of the cp for the joysticks. Hopefully will be picking this up next week.
The search began for a Dynamo HS2 cabinet, might came up pretty quick...thank you Sasha! Unfortunately it had been in a shed for more than a decade, and was not a pristine example, but decent enough to be saved. It came with a Golden Tee in it, and amazingly enough, worked when I powered it up.
The tear down began shortly after getting it home. The Golden Tee pcb, bezel and marquee sold quickly. All the wiring came out as did the side art with help from a heat gun. You could see a little of the particle board texture on the side, so this was going to need to be fully sanded down before painting. I wanted this cabinet to be as similar as possible to what it would have been in the early 90s so I want it to be painted. If the finish just isn't up to my standards, screw it, it will get laminated.
Structurally the cabinet was good, but given the environment it lived it I thought it best that the whole inside get wiped down with a mold inhibitor. I didn't find anything on the inside, which was surprisingly clean. The only area I found a trace of mould was along the inner of the plywood base. Even after a thorough scrubbing, this was going to bug me. Off with base! A new base was build and gave me the opportunity to put a fresh set of levelling legs on.
The monitor washed up ok, but has some burn in. I tried swapping in a new tube, but the neck wasn't quite right and couldn't get the yoke pushed down far enough. All the originals were put back on. I'll source a burn free monitor and use this one on the test bench.
I picked up two Street Fighter PCBs, one World Warrior, the other Hyperfighting. The WW pcb worked just fine, and after a wash and a dry, was ready go. The HF board had a known graphics issue, but came with burned HF chips....fingers crossed those are the problem.
Back to the cabinet, after a ton of sanding I primed it by rolling a Zinzer oil based primer. Looked promising until I had to sand it. F me! Never ever ever again will I roll primer. Killed a whole sandpaper forrest.
Taking a break from painting I went and saw my buddy's Dad who does body work to weld up my control panel so we could drill out the proper six hole placement. As far as I can tell he cut out the piece of metal, then used some sort of English wheel to creat a lip for greater surface area to be welded. He's also going to weld studs onto the inside of the cp for the joysticks. Hopefully will be picking this up next week.
