BIG BLUE DYNAMO RESTORE!!!!!!!!!

[Zitz]

Hey guys thought id show my biggest project i took on here
Earlier in the year here in Melbourne i had the opportunity to get my hands on a holy grail of mine the covenant BIG BLUE DYNAMO usa import
For those who dont know these are the cabs capcom went with for their official streetfighter games aswell as others it was my chance to finally have my ultimate SF machine this is how it came a old beat up golden tee but i knew what it was and it had the infamous hilarious dynamo label still on the back

first thing to be done was to fix the top right hand side corner so built a frame measured to opposite side and filled it with builders bog n then shaped it to suite which i then sanded back filled any other dent in aswell whilst i was at it

next thing was to clean out the internals to get it ready for wiring
This particular cab was made for SF2CE which came without the qsound amp after looking online abit I decided to opt for a decent set of logitechs (z533) to go in its place instead running the rca to the cps2 board so i took out the olds and hot glued the logitechs in place you would never know that they were with the big black metal plate covering em up

Ok so cleaned and gutted out what was left behind inside I decided to go with a RT-85A Meanwell powersupply from digikey and a 500w tortech isolated 110v Stepdown

It was a hard decision to decide what to do with the sides whether to leave , paint or vinyl , I ended up going down the vinyl route and boy am i glad i sure did i went with hecis supatacs5000 S293B a tiny bit brighter than stock but it came out great

 

[Zitz]

It came out looking so much better than i could have hoped for the hexis really made it pop again

next on the agenda was to sort out some artwork for this beast , i had my panel out with a plastics company to cut me a sheet to shape with all the holes lasered out

i got a hold of a screen surround and stuck it into place then got 2 pieces of 3mm foam board and cut it perfectly in the middle so i could then mount my bezel artwork to it and also cut out in the middle , it came out looking so so good i also got my translucent marquee print wedged between a piece of opaque and clear poly to make the lightbox complete

adding 2 il euros and american classic dimpletop buttons along with control decals i was able to line it up superb
Next came the screen it is a 26" zenith running a wells chassis not having done a recap before i was super keen to give it a crack and im glad i did cause it went perfect

So after all that was done all there was left was to wire the buttons and test it all out

just before putting my tmolding on i realised the operator had hacked the channel where the tmold goes for the golden T panel ahhh i was shattered but never mind i will get to that very soon and i will update how i did it

added led bulbs and new translucent coin pricing slips to give it extra life

currently running hyper streetfighter anniversary in it with my moves list art about to be applied will also add those pics when done

thank you all for checking my thread ‍

 

[djsheep]

Fantastic stuff.