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Just a quick Popeye restauration
« on: March 09, 2014, 01:26:03 PM »
Well... only touching up some stuff here and there.

The cab was in C3 from Thomas. Took me ages to start with it. The screen was pretty much done. It was blurry as hell but it got better when it ran for about 20 minutes. Jochen had to take care of that.



Looks great again just whenever you fire the cab up.

The worst part was the control panel. It had nasty cigarette burns and the overall look was not very nice.










Thank god this is the easiest part of our hobby. :)







Took care of the metal parts as well... and started to put everything back together again. :)

Of course there had to be new sidearts as well.







Now it looks great in my Nintendo-row:





If anybody has a real instruction underlay for Popeye... let me know. I am using a printed one. Colours do not really match but for now it will do.

If you wanna see all the other pics... just visit my tumblr. I will upload new stuff frequently.

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Re: Just a quick Popeye restauration
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2014, 03:52:25 PM »
looking good, stefan, but ...

Took me ages to start with it. The screen was pretty much done. It was blurry as hell but it got better when it ran for about 20 minutes. Jochen had to take care of that.

... what would you do without jochen? :P



what's up with that damaged coin insert sticker? and what about the missing instruction sticker?

If anybody has a real instruction underlay for Popeye... let me know. I am using a printed one. Colours do not really match but for now it will do.

i have a NOS one which i would give away for the price i paid over at arcadefixit.com: 25 dollars! i know it's steep, but it's NOS as well. let me know ...
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Re: Just a quick Popeye restauration
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2014, 04:11:04 PM »
yeah, i take it. :) the stickers are on their way. putting them on was not really part of the restauration. ;)
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Re: Just a quick Popeye restauration
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2014, 08:07:32 PM »
Fantastic line up buddy
Have you got the Popeye instruction decal for johns aracde ?
He made one for Popeye and dk3 as they never came with one

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Re: Just a quick Popeye restauration
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2014, 08:13:19 PM »
Fantastic line up buddy
Have you got the Popeye instruction decal for johns aracde ?
He made one for Popeye and dk3 as they never came with one

saw them on thisoldgame. waiting for everything to be back in stock there. :)
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Re: Just a quick Popeye restauration
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2014, 10:11:22 PM »
I've got both for mine
Hoping to restore my Popeye in the summer
What's your highest score ?

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Re: Just a quick Popeye restauration
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2014, 10:22:20 PM »
I've got both for mine
Hoping to restore my Popeye in the summer
What's your highest score ?

did not play it much because of the screen-issues. will start to practice now. :)
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Re: Just a quick Popeye restauration
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2014, 10:36:01 PM »
Be warned
It's bloody hard lol