marred/scratched plexi ... any options?

the Novus stuff should arrive today (God bless Optimus ... i mean ... Amazon Prime)

the patients are ready. will post results tonight or tomorrow

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On a side note, I have noticed that the lip on the bottom bezel brackets sometimes faces in, sometimes faces out. Which way is the lip facing on each of those? Just wondering for comparison....thanks...

It would seem facing the lip out would make removing the bezel easier from the front of the cab.
 
On a side note, I have noticed that the lip on the bottom bezel brackets sometimes faces in, sometimes faces out. Which way is the lip facing on each of those? Just wondering for comparison....thanks...

It would seem facing the lip out would make removing the bezel easier from the front of the cab.

The lip is supposed to face out but I believe a lot of OPs reversed them so it would be harder for people to try to take the bezels out on location.
 
to Jam's point ...

in order to get my DK Jr bezel out, i had to not only pull the marquee and bar holding it on top, i had to go inside the upper back cabinet and pull back a lever that was pushing/holding the plexi bezel in place ...

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loosen wingnut, pull back level/bar, go to front of cab, apply a bit of in-and-up pressure (that's what she sa ... never mind ...), and the plexi will exit the cabinet

The lip is supposed to face out but I believe a lot of OPs reversed them so it would be harder for people to try to take the bezels out on location.
 
I know this has been pretty much covered but here is my Stargate bezel when I got it
Had to go down to 400 on the 2 big scratches across the middle or I would have been sanding for days as they were deep!
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Finished product after a couple days of sanding (Finished sanding with 2000 and then a buffing wheel on a drill, I paint cars as another hobby so I used my autobody rubbing and buffing compounds to buff it out)
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Looks awesome in person but now see after pictures I need to hit it with some Novus to clean it up a little better.
 
technically, you're right

but if we're going that route i should probably grab a Pentium 4 PC with 512 MB of RAM, a hard drive with 40 GB of space, a LCD display, and just make a single MAME cabinet. no scratched plexis, no paint matching, no recapping anything, no hunts for rare PCBs, etc

why would us dummies spend hundreds of hours and (combined over the years) thousands of dollars to restore some junky old electronic novelty devices that were never meant to last longer than 5 years anyways?

technically, you're right
that is just like replacing a bezel with a reproduction one????? lol
oh wait recapping with new caps? cant have that either.
i wonder how many donkey kongs have reproduction parts on them? OMG
 
As with anything....there are patients worth saving, and then there are those that are just too far gone.

If some elbow grease can bring back an original bezel and the artwork is still decent....I applaud the effort.

Make sure to post your effort and the results so we can enjoy it too.
 
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