Which Cabinet would you use for a TMNT Machine?

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Which of these 2 Cabinets would you use for a TMNT Restoration?

I found 2 Konami cabs in my area that are both 300 each. One is a 4 Player that has been converted to Golden Tee 98 and has the single speaker above the screen. This could have even possibly been an original TMNT machine. The other machine that I have found is an x-men 4-player but was told that the monitor stopped working and it plays blind. The seller emailed me and told me it could possibly be a bad flyback board. The side art is in great shape and so is the whole cabinet overall. I'm trying to toss around cost pros and cons of using each cabinet. The plus about the golden tee cab is that the monitor is in great shape and works. The con is i'll have to find a complete 4 player control board and also another coin door since one has the bill slots. the x-men cab would be nice also but the monitor does not work. I kind of want to go close to original so i'm liking that the golden tee has the single overhead speaker. Here are pictures of each. What do you guys think? Any advice would be appreciated. This is my first resto. Thanks - Justin
 

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Tough call. Personally, I'd pick up the X-Men, but keep it as an xmen, and look at getting a switcher to swap between it and TMNT.

If you are going to convert it into a TMNT, I'd go with the golden tee, since it was already converted once. Would be a bit more work to source a control panel, but at least you aren't cannibalizing an X-Men to do it.
 
I'd go with the X-Men myself.
It's already set up for 4 player and the monitor issue is probably easy enough to figure out with the guys on this site.
Plus you could sell or trade the X-Men board easier IMO than the Golden Tee.



Good luck.
 
Ya thats kind of what I was thinking. I would hate to hack up the x-men cabinet because it seems to be in pretty nice condition. For some reason it seems pretty hard in my area to find a TMNT machine. I'll have to do some thinking about which route I want to go. Another option I was thinking is buying the x-men cabinet and see if I can find someone that would want to trade cabinets for a TMNT one.
 
Don't be a girl. If you want a TMNT, go with the original cabinet. Mine was converted to a Golden Tee as well. You can see how it turned out here.
 
You must sac a Gauntlet to this project. And then paste little TMNT faces over the warrior, wizard, archer, and valkyrie.

<runs for cover>
 
Well I talked to the guy with the Golden Tee cabinet. He said he just tested it the monitor does not turn on. Right now He said he would take about 100 bucks. What do you guys think? Decent deal? Should I offer him 50?
 
I picked up the cabinet yesterday. Boy was that interesting getting it down into my basement haha. He did not have the keys but at least the back door was unlocked so I was able to get the control panel off. The thing is a beast. I put it all back together and it fired right up. I think he was having problems with it not turning on because he had the back door off and there is a sensor switch on the back so it never got power. Golden Tee fires right up and the monitor looks great. I'll take some pictures tonight and post them. The monitor had a build date of 91, I peeled the black vinyl side art back and it looks like they removed the original side art because underneath the vinyl is just bare wood painted black. It has 1 mono speaker so i'm assuming this was originally a TMNT cabinet. I found some tokens in the machine that were from Galaxy World, and Brunswick Zone. Now for the restoration to begin.
 
I'm in the middle of going through the cabinet and removing the golden Tee stuff. One question I have is regarding the front corners. Both of them are chipped up down to the Tee Molding. Each corner has one good side and one side that is chipped. I'm wondering what the best way to repair this would be. Should I do a biscutt joint or should i just bondo the chipped part and then re-notch it for the T-Molding. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks - Justin
 

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If a biscuit joint and newly routed piece is an option for you it will be much more durable. The bondo will just get smashed the first time the cabinet is hit on those corners again.
 
Thanks for the advice. I think i'm defininitely going to go the route of using a biscuit joiner. Does anyone know if these machines had 1 coin counter per door or did they just use one coin counter that ran off of both doors? I checked mine and it has about 285k on the coin counter. Looks like this one got a good amount of use. I'm looking for the correct style test switch setup original to these machines for when I do the restore. Attached is a picture of what was on my machine and another picture with a circled button is what I saw on another TMNT machine on this forum. Does anyone have any pics of their test buttons from their cabs that are all original? Thanks - Justin
 

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Thanks for the advice. I think i'm defininitely going to go the route of using a biscuit joiner. Does anyone know if these machines had 1 coin counter per door or did they just use one coin counter that ran off of both doors? I checked mine and it has about 285k on the coin counter. Looks like this one got a good amount of use. I'm looking for the correct style test switch setup original to these machines for when I do the restore. Attached is a picture of what was on my machine and another picture with a circled button is what I saw on another TMNT machine on this forum. Does anyone have any pics of their test buttons from their cabs that are all original? Thanks - Justin

My TMNT has 1 coin counter that runs off of both doors. Good resto project. I did similar about 2 years ago and love it :)
 
Thanks, I cant wait to finish restoring it. Right now i'm finding parts for it. So far i've found a coin door assembly to replace the bill acceptor, PCB, wiring harness, and joysticks. Still working on finding side art, cpo, and a control panel for it. Does anyone have pictures of the inside of their TMNT cabs that I can use for reference? The board in it currently looks not to be in the original place and the ground straps are all messed up. Any pics would help out a lot. Thanks - Justin
 
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