My charitable donation to the "Andy's Foundation" for this year (MK2)
As some of you know I own two restaurants in a chain called Andy's Burgers, Shakes, and Fries here in North Carolina (13 more states coming soon). Each year we do a fundraising drive in our stores to raise money for our charitable organization to benefit mostly children's charities. We raise money for 3 months leading up to the golf tournament we do. The tournament is really popular and hasn't had an open registration spot in years. Anyway, there is always a party and an auction preceding the tournament. Last year I donated a generic woodgrain cabinet that had a bootleg Ms. Pac pcb installed. I made it look nice and it went for $1000. It was the highest selling auction item last year.
It will be hard to top that this year but I am trying. I took this converted Midway cabinet I had in storage to my house a few weeks ago and got started. I already knew it was a Mortal Kombat 2 cabinet but wasn't sure what I would find under the paint.
So I got it home and broke it all down. Removed the monitor (K7000) and took the control panel box off and started stripping the paint. Took some work and time but it got done. Then I re-capped the monitor. After that I changed the control panel from the crappy converted MK4 to a spare MK2 (with run buttons). Looks much better. I had to craft a few new brackets: Monitor glass and top marquee bracket. I also added some flashing to the bottom corners to protect them since the assh...er, guy before me removed all of the legs and left it sitting on the bottom for years. I had an extra MK2 maniboard and power cable and bought a sound pcb and ribbon cable untested off ebay for cheap (it works!). KLOV member GuidoTorpedo generously sent me a marquee for free. Thanks bud!! I also touched up some torn parts of the sideart and replaced two sections of T-molding that was split.
So, after a few weeks of hard work done after getting home from running my restaurants at night, I put it all back together.
I'm delivering the cab to the home office this Tuesday!
Here are the pics:
Both sides looked like this to start.
Left side after stripped (2 pics)
Marquee donated by GuidoTorpedo slightly trimmed and fitted.
As some of you know I own two restaurants in a chain called Andy's Burgers, Shakes, and Fries here in North Carolina (13 more states coming soon). Each year we do a fundraising drive in our stores to raise money for our charitable organization to benefit mostly children's charities. We raise money for 3 months leading up to the golf tournament we do. The tournament is really popular and hasn't had an open registration spot in years. Anyway, there is always a party and an auction preceding the tournament. Last year I donated a generic woodgrain cabinet that had a bootleg Ms. Pac pcb installed. I made it look nice and it went for $1000. It was the highest selling auction item last year.
It will be hard to top that this year but I am trying. I took this converted Midway cabinet I had in storage to my house a few weeks ago and got started. I already knew it was a Mortal Kombat 2 cabinet but wasn't sure what I would find under the paint.
So I got it home and broke it all down. Removed the monitor (K7000) and took the control panel box off and started stripping the paint. Took some work and time but it got done. Then I re-capped the monitor. After that I changed the control panel from the crappy converted MK4 to a spare MK2 (with run buttons). Looks much better. I had to craft a few new brackets: Monitor glass and top marquee bracket. I also added some flashing to the bottom corners to protect them since the assh...er, guy before me removed all of the legs and left it sitting on the bottom for years. I had an extra MK2 maniboard and power cable and bought a sound pcb and ribbon cable untested off ebay for cheap (it works!). KLOV member GuidoTorpedo generously sent me a marquee for free. Thanks bud!! I also touched up some torn parts of the sideart and replaced two sections of T-molding that was split.
So, after a few weeks of hard work done after getting home from running my restaurants at night, I put it all back together.
I'm delivering the cab to the home office this Tuesday!
Here are the pics:
Both sides looked like this to start.
Left side after stripped (2 pics)
Marquee donated by GuidoTorpedo slightly trimmed and fitted.
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