A few months back I bought a Rollergames. Overall it is in pretty good condition. Playfield is not bad, but the cabinet has seen better days.
It was on route somewhere and someone decided to take a crowbar to the coin door. The guy I bought it from replaced the coin door, but left the hole. He didn't care. The machine played fine with or without the hole.
I forgot to take a before picture with the hole, but it was pretty damaged. The wood was torn apart about halfway across to the leg on the back side of the plywood. At first I was going to cut out the section and replace it, but decided to try my hand at a fill type repair first. I figured if I screw it up, I can always cut that part out.
Going with the fill repair I could salvage more of the original paint since I could fill behind it.
I chipped out all the lose wood and glued and viced the front section together. Once that dried I screwed a metal plate on the back side. I masked off the original paint I wanted to try and save, then over filled with Minwax two part wood fill.
Once that dried I carefully sanded it down.
I masked off the sections around the blue lines and the star and hit it with white paint. Once that dried I masked the design and hit the rest with black.
After that, I added a little blue and black around the edges of the design. It didn't have to be perfect (because the cabinet is kind of scuffed anyway) but I figured this would be better than just painting the missing sections of the design black.
For a quick and dirty repair, I think it came out pretty good.
It was on route somewhere and someone decided to take a crowbar to the coin door. The guy I bought it from replaced the coin door, but left the hole. He didn't care. The machine played fine with or without the hole.
I forgot to take a before picture with the hole, but it was pretty damaged. The wood was torn apart about halfway across to the leg on the back side of the plywood. At first I was going to cut out the section and replace it, but decided to try my hand at a fill type repair first. I figured if I screw it up, I can always cut that part out.
Going with the fill repair I could salvage more of the original paint since I could fill behind it.
I chipped out all the lose wood and glued and viced the front section together. Once that dried I screwed a metal plate on the back side. I masked off the original paint I wanted to try and save, then over filled with Minwax two part wood fill.
Once that dried I carefully sanded it down.
I masked off the sections around the blue lines and the star and hit it with white paint. Once that dried I masked the design and hit the rest with black.
After that, I added a little blue and black around the edges of the design. It didn't have to be perfect (because the cabinet is kind of scuffed anyway) but I figured this would be better than just painting the missing sections of the design black.
For a quick and dirty repair, I think it came out pretty good.
