Picking up the cab and first inspection

I picked up this cab in Bremen a couple of weeks ago.

   
At a first look it doesn’t seem to be in bad conditions…


Coin door is not populated at all


Probably a switch power supply is missing, that’s used for +5V -5V and +12V the rest seems to be there.

CRT is burned but I’m sure it is original 😀


Speakers are in very good shape.


I found some damages and I decided to disassemble the cabinet.

Restoring the bottom

This was an easy issue although I could see all corners were damaged and needed some actions.


metal parts were rusty


These are the most similar replacements I could find


Not perfect but good enough for me 😀 As usual the wood has been cleaned and coated with primer


I used 2 wheels with breaks on front and 2 without breaks on back.
Cab had 2 woody parts with a total height of 2 cm, wheels height is about 9 cm so the difference is more or less 7 cm

T-molding

I refurbished a little bit the T-molding. I used an “abrasive sponge” or “sanding sponge”. Here is a picture.


Wow, I need a new one. This was the condition of the T-molding before sanding:


and this is the result.

Removing rust

All screws, bolts and washers were quite rusty so I had 2 possibilities:

1. change all rusty parts
2. try to remove rust

I found this product:


  I don’t know the international name but this is miraculous… This is an example of the results without sanding:

 
In this case washers have been changed.

Transformer

I removed rust:


once cleaned I took a couple of pictures  of both sides


Checking the voltages around the cab I can see the couple 5-7 (115V) goes to the TV, and the couple 6-7 (100V) goes to the (missing) Power Switch .

Corners

All 4 low corner were damaged. Here  you can see what I did with the front left corner.

step 1: removing the damaged parts
step 2: using putty for wood
step 3: giving the right shape …

This was the initial situation

   
this is the “putty”. Yes, wrong color, I had to use a black one.

 
Using rasp and sandpaper I could give back the right shape. I used DREMEL to reproduce the t-molding groove.


Considering the t-molding was quite damaged and I hadn’t any replacement I decided to use the same putty to cover the t-molding damages.

 

Right-Front corner

I applied the same procedure for the right-front corner


… and the same for the back corners… once I had an acceptable result for all 4 corners I had to think how to give the original colors to all parts.

Painting T-molding

Once I re built the missing parts of the T-molding with the putty I sprayed the entire part with a black glossy paint.


This is the result for both corners.

Completing the corners

Once T-molding was completed I sprayed with matte black all the bottom part. Left side (a little bit dirty, sorry):


Right side:

Front panel

I could see that a black metal plate had been screwed on the front panel.


once removed all screws and the coin door the metal plate could be removed.


This is the back side of the metal plate once removed.


and this is the front panel. Obviously coin door has been ripped from the panel.


I bought a chipboard with the same sizes of the original front panel


I painted it in black satin and made all wholes needed, including the space for the coin door. Here old and new panels are compared.


And this is the panel mounted in the final position.


Before black satin I used a primer and sandpaper 350

Back panel

Back panel was damaged too.

Joystick

These were the joystick starting conditions


Then I disassembled it completely


So I could clean part by part. After that I assembled it again.

Control Panel

Control Panel was in strange conditions… 90% was quite good but the rest was missing showing a lot of rust.

One of the three buttons had been substituted with another one based on switch. Fortunately I had a replacement.

First of all I removed the original CPO

Then I cleaned it

Then I fixed the rust with my usual de-rust product.

Once arrived the new CPO from arcadeshop I could proceed

Here is my Gyruss with the new CP 🙂

I need only coin door mechanisms to close this project!!