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Very nice!
I see a Star Trek peeking out in those pictures. How's that been for you? Is it well behaving?
Gamefixer is quite well versed in Star Trek, recently![]()
Bring it on ...
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Is that a recommendation? Not familiar with gamefixer.
Two recent G80 threads -> (study, there will be a quiz later)
gamefixer -
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=376940&highlight=g80
mjenison -
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=365899&highlight=g80
Someone offered to help me with the Star Trek boards so I'll be sending them off to him maybe as soon as tomorrow.
Appreciate the tips on those repair threads. I read through them last night and it sounds like a lot of CPU board problems were fixed with a new Z80 and some cap replacements. Still, I don't have a test rig or even a working power supply at this point so I'm going to ship them off.
I'll have plenty to do repairing, repainting, polishing, powder coating, installing the Vector Labs power supply bypass and rebuilding the G08 to keep me busy for several months. I'll start a new restoration thread for it once I get a few weeks into it.
I've been working on Star Trek and will have a restoration post up on that later this week. But today I got back to looking at my Space War control panel. I haven't been eager to put it back together because there's a problem with it. The paint is fine but it looks to me like whoever painted it first had to remove a bunch of rust and the rust left behind lots of little divots or dimples in the metal:
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I've been telling myself for weeks I could live with but bottom line is I can't. It looks terrible and I'm going to notice it every time I see the game so it's going to get repaired. I could fill it myself and spray paint it but I really prefer powder coating, especially for the control panel. The problem is that you can't really powder coat over a filler like bondo because the coating won't adhere to it.
However, today I spoke to Dan, the guy who does all my powder coating and he said they can fill this and coat it one way or another. So the panel is going in tomorrow and will be sand blasted, resurfaced and then coated.
I should have it back early next week and I'll add an after picture then. Then I can finally put this all back together!
Dropped off the panel at the powder coating shop today and Dan (the owner) immediately pointed out the panel was currently powder coated, not painted as I had assumed. So that's further indication that whoever owned this previously really did spend some money trying to restore it. Unfortunately, they didn't get it right. So a newly powder coated panel with unrepaired rust damage. Why bother?
And that pretty much matches with the rest of this previous restoration effort. For instance, they gave it a nice paint job but didn't bother to mask off the interior so there's lots of overspray inside the cab and even some on the sound board, suggesting they didn't even bother to remove it.
If you're going to spend money painting, powder coating and restoring a game, why not take a little more time and effort to "Make it right."
So he can still sandblast it and re-powdercoat it and have it come out looking great, right?
This is what he is gonna do to your pitted CP, with a thin body filler glaze:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8ZIzQWB0zM