Nintendo Donkey Kong or Vs. restore?

Some work performed. Did a cleaning of the PCB and reseated the chips. This resulted in some hair pulling as then I had a non-working board. After tinkering for a while I got it back with improved graphics, but I really think I should recap the board as several caps are swollen and not looking great. Q1 on the video board was so rusty the legs just broke off. I cleaned it up and re-soldered it.

I've decided to just break the cab down and do a real restore on it. There's a ton of nails and other hardware used everywhere.

CP is de-laminating so I re-glued and clamped it back together. I'm going to have to fill the giant hole on the side and really do some work on the CP & kickplate area.

A fun bonus is the coin door is broken in the upper right corner. Right now it's bathing in some citri-strip. I'm going to see how far epoxy will get me, otherwise i'll have to get it welded or buy a new door.

I just rebuilt the Sanyo and it's looking great. The amplifier had a cap that had a leg rusted off, sounded horrible. All rebuilt, washed and pretty. Tube was weak, but I rejuvenated it and it's looking pretty good.
 

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More progress:

1) Round 1 of 2 days of citristrip on the coin door. Round 2 in progress.

2) Kickplate repair. Top corner completely broken, backplate reinforcement. Someone put nails in the CP front so that had to carefully be removed.

3) On the fence about replacing the base. I'm leaning on some bondo and repaint. I have some leg levelers i'm going to install, but the base is pretty solid as is. What's your opinion?
 

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New to me technique; normally I wire-wheel metal parts to bare metal, but this time I tried the citristrip+garbage bag technique and after 3 rounds, I got most of it off. It occurs to me that the pressure washer would be a great way to get the remainder and clean it off. Worked perfectly!
 

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lots of filling of stripped out screw holes, repair of plywood voids and other related tasks:
 

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Dowel filling holes; does anyone have an opinion about the base? It's pretty solid, but but this damage. I got some leg levelers that fit in the corners, but of course right on the dent. Probably cut that section out and replace.
 

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I'm still on the fence about the base; I'm doing a bit of filling, but may end up replacing it.

Did a quick replacement of this missing back door stop. It's painted now too.
 

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Began filling and sanding, so tedious.
 

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I'm still on the fence about the base; I'm doing a bit of filling, but may end up replacing it.

Did a quick replacement of this missing back door stop. It's painted now too.
Ya got a table saw and the bases are all just simple pieces to replicate. its going to be stronger and pretty straight forward to build a new base.
 
Dodoodododo
 

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Enough bondo can accomplish anything:
 

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Sidebar: I'm partial to the bondo brand wood filler, which is similar to the car product, but seems to grab wood better. It's been hard to find lately, so I gave this Minwax filler a try, very similar product; works just as well as the bondo stuff:
 

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Hand to cut this weird blank circle to fill this giant hole:

Apparently the operator cut this hole to setup 2 Nintendo cabs as a 4 player-2 monitor NBA jam setup!
 

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slowly but surely. Also invested in better cabinet screws, most of the stock screws are fine thread and bent!
 

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my favorite part of refinishing is the primer step. It's when it stops looking like a patchwork quilt and starts to look like a real cab again:
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Backside
 

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Starting to be slowed down by paint drying:

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One more fun thing; when you can't find the right tag exactly, improvise!

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