My Restoration of an original vs. Super Mario bros. cabinet

[Thursty]

So I'm gonna be picking up a Mario bros. arcade system today, in rough shape for about $100.

Known Problems:
Original Cab, different side art.
Sound issues.

A lot of unknown problems for sure.

I'll update this thread as it happens.

 

[Mako321]

Re: My Restoration of an original Mario bros. Arcade cabinet

Sounds fun.

 

[Thursty]

So it turns out it was not a Mario Bros. Machine, it was actually a VS. unisystem cab. with a vs. Super Mario bros. board in it. Sweet.

Updates and pics soon.

 

[Thursty]

Progress! so As you can see in the below pictures, this cab is utterly destroyed on the outside, luckily all but the sound inside works, and I can fix that easily.

Un-Altered


Anyways, The coin door was completely F'd up, coins and toys jammed in both slots, unfortunately I need to order a tiny part to get coin mech 2 working. But here it is before I worked on it today:

before

Here it is after sanding, grinding, and painting:

after

Next up was the Marquee light. The original Nintendo light was completely missing, in it's place was a giant flood light in a Styrofoam cup. It only lit half of the marquee, so I replaced it with two evenly-lighting Aquarium bulbs, roughly the size of the original tube light.

Unlit

Lit!

Here's a picture of the cleaned and dusted Insides.

Insides

Here is the front, before and after. Please note I have not touched the bottom paint in any way.

Before

After

And finally, I started chipping the ugly uneven graffiti ridden paint job off of the sides, This is going to take a while.

Right

Left

That's all for now, I believe.

 

[robm]

I cammented.

 

[Mako321]

Ooh, I can't wait to see this one finished.

 

[Zero]

DGK All Day lol. Who was the previous owner?

 

[XCVG]

Cool, definitely going to read this. One tiny part, that sucks. Can't you just fake it somehow?

Is the lighting really that uneven or is that just the picture?

 

[Mario]

No, in chat he said it's perfectly and evenly lit.

 

[Thursty]

BUMPDATE

so I just got home from a long weekend away, and I made $100 for shaving my head, Just enough to finish this project!
Unfortunately the pain I'm feeling cannot be cured by and amount of money.

Anyways on to progress. I went and bought paint and paint supplies today, and started going at the front. I will avoid the sides for now, anyways, here's a pic of it almost done being sanded:

Almost Done!

Then after a few more hours of sanding, I put the first few coats on.

First few Coats of paint.

I also managed to get the most expensive part of the cab ordered, the side art. Coming in at exactly 69.98 shipped, for both sides of course.

Heres a look at it.

More updates to follow soon.

Left to do:
Finish paint on front
Sand/chip down sides
Paint sides
Rebuild the bottom edges with epoxy
Install new T-Molding
Fix sound board
Install Side art
Touch ups

 

[ShockSlayer]

AWESOME!

SS

 

[Thursty]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cZYB2499yk

 

[Basement_Modder]

<3

 

[XCVG]

What's the other arcade cab in the background?

 

[Thursty]

My mame cabinet cigarette. <3

 

[βeta]

You were pretty diesel there for a bit with just one hand.

 

[Thursty]

You were pretty diesel there for a bit with just one hand.

Heck year

 

[Mister Hat]

SUPERSEXY MR THURSTY! I LOVE IT!

 

[BlueLink77]

Good lord dude, I am so jealous of you right now.

Who had one of these sitting around?

 

[Thursty]

A couple with a lot of kids and no room to keep them.