today's pickup: free candy

bolex

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I went over to a friend's house from church today to help him move stuff out of his garage. He wants to paint his garage floor with an epoxy coating. His garage was packed full of stuff and so we were moving everything out to his yard and placing everything under a big tent he had setup there. In the very back of the garage was this candy cab. I had seen the cabinet years ago and I remember talking to him about it, but at the time he was not interested in parting with it. I didn't even ask him for it, I could just tell he really liked it.

As I grabbed the candy cab to roll in into the big tent, he just told me that if I wanted to I could just load it in my truck and take home. He said it needed a new home. I couldn't pass that up.

The game fires up and plays, but there is no audio. The game is wired JAMMA. Its a Capcom Impress with a 29" Monitor. Awesome find.

Now I just wish someone would pick up this Max RPM from me so I have room in my garage for it.
 

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I'm excited about this one. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with it after I clean it up and do some touch-up on the yellowed plastic.

What's a good paint to use on plastic cabinets?
 
Thanks for that Retr0bright link! I'll give that a shot for sure. I have some hydrogen Peroxide left over from my jet pack I can use:

 
Just a quick update on this. I finished getting the candy playable today. I bought new buttons from some Chinese website and rebuilt the control panel. I cleaned the cab up as good as possible with some heavy cleaning agents. The control panel was a sticky mess. A soda had been left on the CP and it had leaked into all the buttons inside the CP. There were also a few cracks in the control panel so I used some epoxy and fiberglass tape to reinforce the CP as good as possible.

The sound issue that the previous owner talked about was an easy fix (I turned up the volume). It had been turned all the way down.

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This cab looks sweet.
 
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