As the CFTBL restoration winds to a close, it makes room for the next project.
The CFTBL sits staged to go to the basement gameroom, which involves stairs, so I am waiting on a friend who helps me move games to come over
Out with the old, in with the new. Just a dirty, messy filthy new game. Man I love this hobby! Time to unwrap!
Cabinet needs some repair. It's structurally sound, and overall not bad. Dirty, with very minimal fading overall. To decal this cabinet would be a waste. I can always come back and decal it, or grab a cabinet from a NBA Fastbreak or something to decal. In the meantime, I will freshen it up the best I can, repaint the interior, and detail it out with new clear tubing for the harnesses and braid, sound upgrade, etc. The inside may end up looking better than the outside. On the outside, I will clean, put on new siderails to replace the damaged originals, replace the start and flipper buttons, repaint all the hardware, replace the wooden chocks on the rear of the cabinet, and repaint the rear. I'm also going to fit a new coin door - because the one on the game now is dented in the middle. It also needs a little glue in a couple areas.
Who knows, I may change my mind on the cabinet and decals. But, that's a $500 part of the project I'm not prepared to tackle at the moment.
I actually installed a driver board to verify the boards are good, and the game works OK. Well, the boards work OK with no playfield attached, anyways
How about this, instead of take the time to convert the game properly, let's just cut some wires and nut them together?
Luckily, that's pretty easily fixed.
Notice how yellow the clear tubing is? Only a few dollars to replace it with new, so I shall do that!
And now, for the first surprise of the project, after unboxing all the parts!
The previous owner desoldered every lamp socket and switch from the harness. I typically clean the harnesses, complete with sockets and switches. Guess there's an extra few hours of soldering on this project :)
At this point, all the parts are torn down in respective groups to be cleaned and detailed.
