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Offline Jango

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Re: 1980 Bally Space Invaders Cleanup
« on: July 08, 2011, 01:23:24 AM »
After cleaning and reinstalling the legs (this time I added caster wheels temporarily to assist with moving the cabinet around my garage), the first step was to remove the playfield and headbox from the cabinet.  I then completely gutted the interior of the cabinet in preparation for cleaning it and spraying.  Vacuuming the interior of the cabinet followed by some Nifty did wonders initially.  

I then used the White Knight Light Grey Super Primer and then followed it with White Knight Dusk Grey which was a very good match to the grey in the exterior of the cabinet.  These were purchased from Bunnings.  I decided to spray the entire interior of the cabinet.  It looks sensational in real life
 








Just as Nino did, I had to reinforce the neck that holds the headbox in place.  I did exactly what Nino did and used some 75mm wood screws to secure this nicely to the cabinet.  I later used some gloss black paint to give the neck a much better finish than was there previously.  In later pics it looks a little too glossy so for the headbox I think I'll use semi gloss though







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