Search for Mortal Kombat control panel ends with mini project
Okay so I finally found an unmolested control panel for my dedicated Mortal Kombat. Thanks to descrentl for reminding me of a CL post for 2 empty Mortal Kombat cabinets located in the Detroit area. I had seen the CL post, but it was Wednesday night and by the time he reminded me of it in my WTB thread, I figured they had to be gone or trashed as they were supposed to be. It turns out the seller still had both of them let alone just the parts and after discussing their condition on the phone, I figured they had to be less faded than my current MK cab. One of them was still in tact as an MK and the other had been converted to something else. The in tact one had a bit of water damage, but the art was pretty good especially compared to mine. The second one had an absolutely horrendous paint job attempt with nasty blue latex paint. I was able to see the progress someone had already made in removing it and the art appeared to be in nice condition overall, so I decided to take a chance on the converted one. The seller was nice enough to give me the control panel off the other machine so I still had my control panel either way. Tonight I started working on stripping off the paint along with help from JoshBrown80. It's been a super tedious process of using a heat gun, but we're planning to attack with Citri-Strip tomorrow. We tried a small test spot and after only sitting for maybe 3 minutes at most the paint came right off with just a paper towel! Anyway, here's a few before shots showing what was previously uncovered plus a current status shot. I also wanted to show just how nasty the paint job is on this thing. Overall the art is in pretty good shape and not very faded. Just thought I'd share because I've seen some other MK cabs uncovered.
The plan is to swap over the guts from my current MK cab which is severely faded. BTW if anyone is interested, that cabinet will be free for the taking once everything is transfered over (assuming all goes well otherwise it would be this cab I'd give away lol). I'd hate to see it go to waste as it's still very solid and clean, but faded.
Here's where we got after a good 2 hours of work...a very slow process for sure. We have been hesitant to use Citri-Strip because of bad results previously, but that particular cabinet had vinyl art that was severely damaged...probably played a role in the outcome. Our test spot came out great, but we're going to be careful around any areas that look damaged.
The horrible paint job...this side, which we started on, has really thick paint in spots.
Okay so I finally found an unmolested control panel for my dedicated Mortal Kombat. Thanks to descrentl for reminding me of a CL post for 2 empty Mortal Kombat cabinets located in the Detroit area. I had seen the CL post, but it was Wednesday night and by the time he reminded me of it in my WTB thread, I figured they had to be gone or trashed as they were supposed to be. It turns out the seller still had both of them let alone just the parts and after discussing their condition on the phone, I figured they had to be less faded than my current MK cab. One of them was still in tact as an MK and the other had been converted to something else. The in tact one had a bit of water damage, but the art was pretty good especially compared to mine. The second one had an absolutely horrendous paint job attempt with nasty blue latex paint. I was able to see the progress someone had already made in removing it and the art appeared to be in nice condition overall, so I decided to take a chance on the converted one. The seller was nice enough to give me the control panel off the other machine so I still had my control panel either way. Tonight I started working on stripping off the paint along with help from JoshBrown80. It's been a super tedious process of using a heat gun, but we're planning to attack with Citri-Strip tomorrow. We tried a small test spot and after only sitting for maybe 3 minutes at most the paint came right off with just a paper towel! Anyway, here's a few before shots showing what was previously uncovered plus a current status shot. I also wanted to show just how nasty the paint job is on this thing. Overall the art is in pretty good shape and not very faded. Just thought I'd share because I've seen some other MK cabs uncovered.
The plan is to swap over the guts from my current MK cab which is severely faded. BTW if anyone is interested, that cabinet will be free for the taking once everything is transfered over (assuming all goes well otherwise it would be this cab I'd give away lol). I'd hate to see it go to waste as it's still very solid and clean, but faded.
Here's where we got after a good 2 hours of work...a very slow process for sure. We have been hesitant to use Citri-Strip because of bad results previously, but that particular cabinet had vinyl art that was severely damaged...probably played a role in the outcome. Our test spot came out great, but we're going to be careful around any areas that look damaged.
The horrible paint job...this side, which we started on, has really thick paint in spots.
