Recent content by Gilluspe

First coat of primer on. Needs some wet sanding and another coat but progress none the less. Test fit. Even with just some primer it looks way better then when I got it..

felt bad just throwing out the old side arts removed during the prep work so, why not:

honestly, i just used the fiberglass resin because it was already out.. and it was easy enough to just tape one side as a stopper. was going to use an epoxy that i could mix thicker, but it worked out. none of them are structural or in stressed locations so it should be fine, i think.

Ok I know it's been a while but this project isn't dead... Just had to wait for it to get warm enough outside to work with fiberglass/resin. Repaired cracked sides and added actual fiberglass cloth to the repair so it shouldn't ever happen again: Also did the first pass at sanding, to prep...

It's been a while but, CRT update. The yoke swap was a success and I now have horizontal controls. Yes it's still slightly crooked, convergence is off, and it needs a degauss (waiting on the connector in the mail), but I'm going to take my time to tweak those since I can't really do the...

While huntng for the ms9 yoke to finish the ms8.5 swap, (aka the tube I got with the astro) I somehow ended up another ms9 instead. I believe this one has something wrong with the chassis psu. But hey I'm bound to get at least 1 working ms9 out of this.. right right? Also, I did source an...

Ok so I cleaned up the metal pieces. Removed all the rust and weird paint. They're down to bare metal and ready to be prepped for paint. Too bad I probably won't get around to painting them any time soon, but progress none the less. I ended up acid bathing them to get to this point, just a...

Yup, appreciate the heads up. 'super clean' is a de-greaser in that family. Watching the nicotine/tar run off with a hose is quite satisfying. Still needs a bit of spot cleaning but the shell wont give my fingers lung cancer by touching it anymore at least. Currently I have the front metal...

monitor woes. After I got the cab home I tested the monitor just to be sure it still worked, and it did. However, because I was moving it around it needed a degauss and that's where my troubles started. The degauss button didnt work. So I started poking around and realized the degauss coil was...

cleaned up the shell with super clean and a garden hose and now i know what i'm working with. The back is good enough so wont need to respray that. With some repro side graphics it should be good to go. plus i do want to leave the original stickers intact. so i was happy it cleaned up as...

Time for the teardown and first pass at cleaning, because gross is an understatement Remember kids, smoking is bad. This is the original coin bin next to a new one... Dont forget to catalog your fasteners: probably the worst jamma harness i've ever seen too. but anyway its now...

As the title states, picked up a very beat up/rundown/smoke stained astro city, about a month ago. At some point it was exported from japan to china and spent the end of its life at a City Hero arcade. So to start, here is what i'm working with: They tried to repair the crack on this side but...

Just your average video game nerd from New York State. Big into music games and 8/16bit JRPGs mostly. I've collected a few cabs over the years but figured I should stop lurking and actually join, after recently acquiring a REALLY crusty Astro City that needs a lot of love. My current cabinet...