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I've cleared through a lot of projects so it's time to start on the last major one clogging up my garage. This Egret 29 was listed locally for a while at the insane price of $4000, but I managed to get the seller down to something much more reasonable and picked it up.
As you can see, this cabinet was a victim of the 00's MAME epidemic. He said he imported it from Matsu and paid barely anything back in the day. Poorly rattle canned, and the entire original control panel assembly was thrown away to make room for a metal abomination with spinners and an LCD screen. The seller was very proud of his work so he insisted on keeping it. He also threw away the entire coin mech assembly because "it's free play and I didn't need it anymore" (????). The wiring was a bit hacked up to add an external power switch and a connector for rope lights, but otherwise wasn't too bad outside of a couple simple bodges that will need to be patched up. The cabinet does fully work otherwise. The monitor powers up and works and looks great, and the tube has almost no burn.
I was amazed by how clean this cabinet was inside. It was a real throwback to when cabs coming out of Japan were all nice. The coin counter was astounding to see--only 2380 on the odometer! Shame on the seller for doing this to such a low-use cabinet.
I need to get this stripped down so it can go to the powder coater for refinishing. With how clean this cabinet is, this one should be a piece of cake. This cabinet actually comes apart into fairly small chunks, making transport easy.
There is one kinda bad dent on the side which will need to be hammered and pulled. One of the corners at the base also had a spot weld fail.
I took the plastic pieces to someone locally for vapor blasting to try and save some time sanding. He said the paint was giving him trouble and he didn't want to damage the soft ABS, so I had him focus on the detail areas which will make sanding the larger surfaces much easier. I will be handling the paint work myself to save some money, I will be using all RAL 9016 Traffic White throughout the cabinet so everything matches. I will go with a satin finish on the plastic and a gloss powder coat on the body, which seems to match the reference images I can find. Aside from being similar to the factory finish, a satin clear coat will save a lot of time polishing and hide any imperfections from a home paint environment.
Overspray everywhere. Just gonna ignore it since it's on the inside.
I washed the tube before putting it in storage, and it wasn't even very dirty. Chassis was also pretty clean.
As you can see, this cabinet was a victim of the 00's MAME epidemic. He said he imported it from Matsu and paid barely anything back in the day. Poorly rattle canned, and the entire original control panel assembly was thrown away to make room for a metal abomination with spinners and an LCD screen. The seller was very proud of his work so he insisted on keeping it. He also threw away the entire coin mech assembly because "it's free play and I didn't need it anymore" (????). The wiring was a bit hacked up to add an external power switch and a connector for rope lights, but otherwise wasn't too bad outside of a couple simple bodges that will need to be patched up. The cabinet does fully work otherwise. The monitor powers up and works and looks great, and the tube has almost no burn.
I was amazed by how clean this cabinet was inside. It was a real throwback to when cabs coming out of Japan were all nice. The coin counter was astounding to see--only 2380 on the odometer! Shame on the seller for doing this to such a low-use cabinet.
I need to get this stripped down so it can go to the powder coater for refinishing. With how clean this cabinet is, this one should be a piece of cake. This cabinet actually comes apart into fairly small chunks, making transport easy.
There is one kinda bad dent on the side which will need to be hammered and pulled. One of the corners at the base also had a spot weld fail.
I took the plastic pieces to someone locally for vapor blasting to try and save some time sanding. He said the paint was giving him trouble and he didn't want to damage the soft ABS, so I had him focus on the detail areas which will make sanding the larger surfaces much easier. I will be handling the paint work myself to save some money, I will be using all RAL 9016 Traffic White throughout the cabinet so everything matches. I will go with a satin finish on the plastic and a gloss powder coat on the body, which seems to match the reference images I can find. Aside from being similar to the factory finish, a satin clear coat will save a lot of time polishing and hide any imperfections from a home paint environment.
Overspray everywhere. Just gonna ignore it since it's on the inside.
I washed the tube before putting it in storage, and it wasn't even very dirty. Chassis was also pretty clean.
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