Tag: cabinet
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Big Guns cabinet complete
It took quite a lot of work today but I finished the cabinet! Laying the ground braid was tedious and I needed more than what I bought, so I used about 5 additional feet from the original machine. I let that sit in evaporust for a couple hours and it cleaned up pretty well. I…
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Repopulating the Big Guns cabinet
Started repopulating the cabinet and got most of it installed in short order. Shocking to see the before and after. Next step is to install the ground braid, then the harness and switches. This weekend I plan to clean and polish the side rails and lockdown bar. Ideally, the cabinet work will be 100% complete…
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New legs for Big Guns!
Put brand new legs on with black plastic cabinet protectors and new leg bolt plates. New feet too. I’ve got it up on three wheel mini dollys so I can roll it around as I work. Everything should be pretty dang exciting from here on out. My goal was to have it done by Oct…
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Big Guns: cabinet stripes
Painted green stripes color matched to the playfield and translite. Unfortunately the middle stripe didn’t come out as light as I thought it would, so I’ll have to go back in to do that. Before I do anything else I’m going to touch up in a few spots where paint lifted once again, then hit…
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Masking for stripes
Spent more time this afternoon attempting to get Surf Champ running based upon some suggestions I got from Pinsiders. Unfortunately none of those solved my problem but I was able to fix a long-standing issue with the player 2 scoring, so there is a bright side! Landed on a design for the Big Guns cabinet…
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Custom Big Guns cab painting
This evening I sanded and scraped back into the cabinet to dull the paint areas and also to create more imperfections. This needed to be done before I could go back over it with more paint. After everybody went to bed I managed to get the first round of texture black on. The goal is…
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A “Make it work” moment for Big Guns
I’m taking a drastically different approach with the cabinet. I don’t want to spend any more money or increase the rebuild timeline with this cabinet. Instead of trying to make it look like Big Guns (which is nearly impossible at this point and would require starting over from scratch) I’ve decided to treat it like…
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Cabinet stencil disaster
Turns out I was right to feel uneasy about my work last night. The adhesive stencil took up huge chunks of the paint job. It’s a complete disaster. When i saw how awful it was, I just got a paint scraper and started going at it to pull up all of the small vinyl stencil…
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Big Guns yellow stencil
It was a really quiet night so I decided to go ahead and lay down the stencils and paint yellow. I don’t think I did a very good job with it. I had quite a bit of difficulty getting the stencils on without wrinkles, and when I sprayed I definitely got it on too thick…