Mappy / JR Pac Marquee Boxes

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I finally finished my Marquee Boxes for my Mappy and JR Pac machines. The boxes are made out of a thin particle board and the sides were literally falling apart... The boxes are completely rebuilt and refinished. I also installed new T-molding to them that matched the new molding I installed on the machines...

The colors on the JR Pac marquee glass are faded so if anyone has one that has good color please let me know... There is one on ebay with great color but there is one big chunch of paint missing. I will post for one in the wanted section...

Anyway I just wanted to show some pics of how they turned out.
 

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Bradley, send the plans down my way. I need to fix my Mappy as well. Just noticed the other day the box split open. :(
 
T molding

so where did the "new" 1/2" orange t-molding come from??



Hello all,
I thought I'd chime in here and explain how we made the molding for Brad. As we all know the 1/2 inch molding isn't available so you either have to keep what you got, hope someone does a repro, or improvise. Brad and I did the latter. We used regular 3/4 Pac orange molding and cut it down using my radial arm saw. Brad tried to cut it with a router, I initially thought we could maybe do it on a jointer, neither method worked till I thought of my radial arm saw. For starters Brad cut the slot in a 4 foot piece of stock that the boxes were made of and popped the molding in, I then put the piece against the saw's fence and then added a second fence in front of the piece using clamps to hold it firm, this was done so the wood would not rock back and forth vertically as it was pushed thru the saw. Basically I created a channel for the wood to slide thru, the fit was firm but not too tight. I turned the saw blade parallel to the fences and moved the blade to the wood till it barely touched. Once all was set I cranked up the saw and fed the wood and molding slowly thru the saw opposite of the blades rotation, the cut came out perfectly straight and smooth. The saw blade is an 80 tooth blade for fine finish work.
Only problem with this method is the t moulding does not have fine thin edges since we are taking about 1/8" off each side of a 3/4 inch piece of molding, as you know the molding gets thicker towards the middle, thickness at the edges of the cut molding is about 1/16th of an inch. Once the molding is mounted on the boxes only a purist would notice the difference. The last picture shows the finished result, original piece is on the left. The new molding is a hair wider than the original cause it was cut to match the thickness of the wood used to make the boxes.

Rich H

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Those look nice together! The Mappy marquee must be a repro?

I had an old faded one - and somewhere along the lines - a guy on here (dont remember his name) had a Mappy (non working) that had a brilliant marquee...
I did a deal with him for a few bucks and sent him my faded one and he sent me his nice one.
 
All the Jrpac marquees have the red faded out. Mine is not much better than yours.
I am planning on trimming down some 3/4 when I redo my cab. Rich, make us some dedicated JrPac artwork :)
 
very creative how you cut it down.. tks for the explanation and pics of it..

well done sirs...
 
+2

Jr Pac in a Mappy is THE Jr Pac, to me. Just love that outrageous marquee. I'd buy an art set in a sec and convert the first nice Mappy I came across, lol.

I think Rich has the marquee almost done for this. I think the project got put on the backburner for now. I would really like to see the CPO and sideart done eventually.
 
I was led to believe there were like 500 dedicated cabs for the JR that were not Mappy conversions (forgive me if Im wrong here)
But does anyone have pics of these cabs, artwork and whatnot?
Also how could someone tell if it was one of those original 500?
 
I was led to believe there were like 500 dedicated cabs for the JR that were not Mappy conversions (forgive me if Im wrong here)
But does anyone have pics of these cabs, artwork and whatnot?
Also how could someone tell if it was one of those original 500?

I have no idea on that - my understanding of the situation was that JR pac was MAINLY a kit... but the factory had left over Mappys (that apparently were not selling well) and so they slapped the new art over the sides and used up the exisiting cabs...

Again this is just what I have been told - I have no idea of that is true or a bunch of crap... guess we really wouldnt know unless there was a reputable source to verify info on this.
 
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