Recent content by Papapishu

Going to start buying the parts and looking at the control panel again. It’s a mess in there and the wires are all soldered in with big globs of solder. The original owners at least had some cable ties in there but since I’m going to have to remove the buttons anyway to clean the rust and they...

Yeah, the biggest issue on mine is a hairline crack on the side from people sitting on the control panel. This is common in a lot of cabs but moreso on this. Plastic welding can fix this luckily. But one advantage is that because they’re ABS plastic they’re very light once the monitor and parts...

That’s a great tip, do you do anything to prevent it from flash rusting after removing the rust? My guess would be oil but I’m not sure how that would impact adhesion of rhe vinyl

I need to find a good SVG of the logo, I think someone on here has one? I can try to ask the guy I got the decal from but understand if that’s technically original art. Also the Decals came out great! Really happy. I need to remove the control panel and go at it with barkeepers buddy/sandpaper...

Kinda took a break because it was winter and then taxes kicked my ass before I could buy parts. But I have a can of the SEM vinyl dye in white that I’m planning on testing out. Also finally got the vinyl decals so I plan on starting to fix the control panel.

Oh no worries I’m actually taking notes for this right now. I should have a chassis on the way but that’s TBD. I also need to figure out which color vinyl dye best matches a classic candy cab color. I’m guessing Dupli-color medium gray but that might be a shade too dark. Edit: Oh this guy...

I may do that! The bottom part and electrical parts are a mess right now. A friend of mine who also got a baby actually made an outlet for the electronics.

Hello gamers, You may have seen this listing from @YubiParts, who imported a bunch of OK Babies and Astro Cities as project cabs in various states of repair. I decided to bite the bullet along with the thread and buy one, in part because I write about this stuff for a living, I had already...

Oh yeah I’m going to. Also going to be documenting it on Aftermath.site. I just thought I’d give credit where credit is due. I am going to test it out. Again I’d do vapor retro brite but that’s not logistically possible. Probably will do some wet sanding too. Thank you. I’ll look into your...

Just got an OK Baby (from Yubiparts on here!). Very excited to fix it up. I think I am going to sand and/or Novus 3-2-1 it a bit before I spray paint it down. I am actually writing about it for the site I co-own. Excited to use this and other threads as a jumping off point. An interesting point...