restoring a Williams Bubbles

gwarble

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Hey all,

I figured I'd start a thread for my Bubbles restoration... not a game i've ever had on my want list, but i'm a die-hard Williams fan, and i snagged a free jammatized empty cabinet from a fellow klover a few months ago. I played it on mame and at CAX some to remind me about it and it grew on me quick...

of course projects take longer than ever these days, but I finally got back around to it this weekend... and am now able to play Bubbles. Still some stuff to do but most of it is done now.

So i started with a jammatized cab (combatribes with skeleton bezel), no pcb but with monitor - free from KLOV forums. I got a bezel, header, and joystick from another klover, picked up at CAX, $100. I just ordered an NOS cpo for 45 from another klover...

so I'm in $145, and the rest came from my hoard. i may still buy original buttons for it, and maybe an original boardset if one comes up cheap, but for now i've added from my collection of parts:

robotron cpu/rom boards
joust sound board
clay cowgill multiwilliams kit
sinistar control panel (which will be the dedicated bubbles cp)
the hacked cp that came on the cabinet (which was actually from a moon patrol) will become the swappable multiwilliams panel to play robotron/joust/bubbles/splat...

i may add a defender/stargate panel at some point, but didn't want my multi panel too cluttered, the main draw back of a high percentage of multi cabinets i've seen, especially multiwilliams.

other random parts/wiring/etc i used from my stash...

i'll try to update this as i progress, but i'm bad at taking pictures (timing wise)
- gwarble
 

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here's where the cab started... the other side was all grey paint, but both sides came off super easy with a heat gun... i still need to get the edges and overpaint on the t-molding...

and the parts i got on the forum
 

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and here's the current control panel setup... a sinistar panel i had will be the dedicated bubbles cp... and the moon patrol panel that came on the cabinet will become the multiwilliams panel... and the last is the cpo i started designing for it but haven't finished yet

- gwarble
 

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