I would be interested to hear how others do it. This is probably poorly worded but essentially what I do is replace the really shitty bits, use a bucketload of wood hardener, sand, wood hardener, sand, wood hardener, just keep going until you have some kind of solid structure back Put more wood hardener on it to make it more solid
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Next I would see if I can get it into test mode to see what it says or does. Sand down the swollen section of cabinet until it is flat / level again with the existing non damaged section of wood If I was in this situation, I would focus on the CPU board, and check all voltages are present and at a decent level on that board. Keep on applying coats as per the instructions until the damaged section is nice and hard again. Paint a shitload of wood hardener on the damaged section. Remove the vinyl from the base up to a level that is above the swollen and damaged section.ĭrill little holes into the damaged section of the cabinet to about half the thickness of the cabinet timber Join it to the main bit of the cabinet with biscuits / dowel etc Remove the corner and remake it with another piece of timber to size. The I way that i would tackle it would be : It's non structural but it really make the particle board solid again so you can work with it. I have had alot of luck with blown out corners and shitty end pieces using wood hardener.
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Leg leveler often tore out like that, but that's from someone dragging the cabinet with them still lowered, I expect this once had wheels that the cab was designed to tilt back on it.ĭepending on how solid that base piece if ply is I think you may get away with just cutting the corner out and then using wood hardener. If you want to keep the old you'll probably need to soak the whole section with watery wood glue and clamp it back to the right thickness until it is rock solid, that will take the bog better than the weetbix, but its a lot more work. Hiding the join with bog will be a lot easier than rebuilding the edges, your struggle may be to find 1/4 MDF to use in Australia. Then you can fit a new section, and either dowel or a biscuit joiner to fit a replacement section. I'd use a circular saw (with the depth set to the panel width) and a straight edge to cut the lower section out from front to back. I tried to replace only the bad section, but ended up scrapping a lot, to get back to decent wood, the rest looked OK but it was like trying to work with Weetbix, was weak and flimsy.
#Fixing a paperboy arcade game tv
The original includes 24 classic arcade games such as Joust, Smash TV and Paperboy. It looks a lot like what I was facing with this cab restoration. This company specializes in packing retro titles in classic gaming.
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Unless you have a firm base for the bog you'll struggle to get it to look good and it will always be incredibly fragile. The water damage there looks pretty extreme, it's probably been sat in a puddle. Hmm, I'd be inclined to cut the bottom section out of that panel all the way across as there's nothing to save on the outer face.