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Tempest Restoration -
Inspiration or Insanity?

Page 5: Miscellaneous Parts
February, 2004

Here are some pictures of various parts of the cabinet, and descriptions of what I did to them..

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Before picture:

Note the filthy power supply (actually everything in there is filthy). I have seen pictures of worse cabinets, so I know I shouldn't complain.

After picture:

I cleaned the cabinet, power supply and wiring harness. I then re-mounted them in the cabinet, along with the regulator board. I also replaced the power cord with a new one.
Here is what my power supply looked like when I got the cabinet home.

Here is my power supply after cleaning it with a damp rag - not bad!

Thanks again to Brad for the parts. Here is a complete wiring harness. The wires had a pretty good amount of dirt on them, but they cleaned up nicely.

Here is what one of the feet looked like after removing the T-nut. I decided to remove the nuts and replace them with square mounting brackets due to how much the T-nuts had sunk into the wood. The square plates will spread the weight of the machine over a wider area.

Here is the same hole with bondo to fill the hole and level it out. I filled the hole because the center hole of the square plates doesn't line up in the exact same spot as the T-nuts did.

Here is a completed mounting plate. I used a 1/2 inch drill for the center hole, then a smaller drill to pre-drill the holes for the 1 inch long #10 wood screws.

On a side note, I was a little disappointed that screws were not included with the purchase of the mounting plates from Arcadeshop.
You can see that there was rust on the speaker grille section, most of it was where the grille sits under the glass retainer.
I used a wire brush attachment on my drill to get off all the paint, and as much rust as would come off. I then painted it satin black. It turned out great! Note that it looks bent in the picture - that must be an optical illusion because it is flat.
This is the glass retainer. It was dented inwards where it was pried out of the partical board with the mounting screws still in it. I placed it on a block of wood and used a hammer to flatten it back out.
After getting it flat, sanding off the rust and scuffing the surface I painted it with a textured spray paint. It's not the exact same texture that it was originally, but it looks good to me.
The back door had damage around the lock hole, and on both corners.
I fixed the worst of the damage with Bondo. I then painted the door with the same satin spray paint that I used on the speaker grille piece.
Here is the inside of the back door. I downloaded the back door info sheet off the web, then had it printed and laminated at Kinkos. I used staples to attach it to the door.
I bought two small plastic auto trim plugs and stuck them in the T-nut holes that used to hold a security bar. I thought that was the easiest way to cover them up, because I didn't want to try and pound them out and end up needing to repaint the whole kick panel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's about it for the small stuff.

 

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