my new wizard of wor! with pics

cleverlyj

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well, i sold my first wizard of wor, but it was good, because i did it straight across basically for my tron and then flipped the tron to get another tempest, so it worked out in the end.

jonsey was interested in my DK cocktail that i was getting tired of, and he was willing to part with the wizard of wor. so we traded across.

so, i didn't really take resto pics so here's what i did. first, the cabinet front was separating from the sides, and the bottom back piece and top part were as well. so i glued them all together, then countersunk screws on them, 10 down the front side on each side, 5 on the top on each side, 2 in the back top on each side, and then 4 on the bottom of each side. i drilled the holes a little larger so the screws were sunk in 1/2", and then bondoed the holes.

next, i took the marquee/brackets/control panel/coin door/etc off, and sanded the cab down to bare wood. bondoed both sides, rebuilt front corners at the bottom, and painted, four coats of paint.

after that, i repainted the brackets, built a complete coin door (the original was missing 75% of the parts) out of two, and vacuumed out the cab. also threw a new line cord on it, and rebuilt the sound amp board and the power supply. finally, i replaced the 1 player stick cause it was bent slightly, and i put on a new cpo, and painted the control panel. to do that, i masked off the front art and painted the rest.

new side art was included in the trade, so that was put on too. the only thing that sucked about it was that the premask was crazily sticky, and tough to remove.

oh, forgot. i also used krylon triple thick as the bezel is cracking at the top. i will eventually get a better condition bezel, but the present one doesn't look that bad...

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Looks great! So does that sweet Back To The Future poster!

thanks. if you look at the movie poster gameroom thread, you can see all the posters.

oh, forgot, i didn't do the splatter as i didn't really have the patience to do it. but i think it looks fine without.
 
Nice job, that looks great. I never played WoW much back in the day, but it has really grown on me lately. Some day I'll own one.
 
Whoa! Looks great, Jim. Really glad that you managed to turn it into something so sweet. You can't quite see how rough it was in the pic below, but this is representative of what he had to work with in order to turn it into something nice:

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Nice! Yours looks GREAT! Wor is one of my favorites. I currently have one from Ireland, has some minor differences one being the coin bucket access panel on the front. In this pic you can see it next to a converted Wor cabinet (Gals panic 2) Mine is also missing the molding piece due to the added coin door access panel....
 

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I still have to play mine in my KI cabinet. I have the Wizard's voice speaker in the dollar bill acceptor cutout of the coindoor with a metal grille over it. I've always wanted that cabinet but have never found one at a reasonable price in a reasonable condition.
 
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