Pac-Man Cabaret Restore Part 9 - How to install vinyl on an arcade game - Install T-molding
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Here it is, guys! PART #9 of the Bally Midway Pac-Man cabaret/mini arcade game restoration. Buckle up, this is a big one!
In this video we FINISH the game! OMG! For real! :)
Topics covered:
#1 - How to install leg levellers on an arcade game
#2 - How to install vinyl on an arcade game (wood grain pac-man vinyl)
#3 - How to install a monitor in an arcade game
#4 - Reassembling an arcade game that was taken apart
#5 - How to set the dip switch settings on an arcade game (default settings)
#6 - How to install t-molding on an arcade game
#7 - How to install a PCB in an arcade game
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My gosh John, I held my breath when vinyl stuck to itself. Amazing work, giving us guys some confidence that we can apply vinyl, even the cheap kind.
Good job John! I look up to you're videos not because you bring back the nostalgic memories of me going to a arcade and playing games even though the most of them were fighting games, and 90's games. But you take the time, and money to do all of this and putting it back to together making it 100% brand new! Good job John
Miss ya John so much I've been rewatching all your old videos, hope all is well with you and your family and I hope we get a farewell and some closure someday... Happy New Year's 2024 kind sir
Re-watching the series. I love "My butt is starting all these games!". Thanks for all you do.
You did a superb job John, the game looks fantastic! I watched all 9 parts and was entertained throughout without an ounce of boredom.
Dude that's awesome and a huge compliment! Thank you very much! Really glad you enjoyed the vids. Part 10 is coming tonight! :D
Awesome job. Such a classic. I've been off and on with building small arcade cabinets and this inspires me to finish my small projects I have. Thankx and keep up the awesome work.
Awesome john love your vids, watching them all one by one! :)
Great job John, thanks for taking all on the ride...... I look forward to your next project.
Great video as always. Really cool to compare it in this video to what we saw in part 1.
Great restore, John - really enjoyed all the episodes and learnt some stuff, too. Pac-Man is my all-time fav game and seeing her brought back to former glory, from just a shell, lifted my heart! :)
Thanks, pal!
Awesome work all that you did to bring this back to life!
John, I never comment on your videos, but I have watched every one of them. It's like going over to a friend's house to work on some cool stuff. I really enjoy them and please keep doing what you do because we really love it!
Ah, thanks, bud! I truly appreciate it!!! :)
Awesome vid John! Man, Pac Man came out great!!
This is a great series.....love watching your restorations. Keep them coming!
Thanks!!!!!
Great video John, Nice to see the Pac-Man cabinet finally completed all the way through. :)
Thanks, Tiger! :D
Anther Great restore. 2nd time watching this series. Thanks for sharing with us.
One other observation... I once fried a monitor by cleaning it with windex... Now I always use an anti-static cleanser which is only a few dollars more than a bottle of windex. Well, it didn't fry the actual monitor, but the PCB on the chassis. Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Sears have an anti-static cleanser that comes with an anti-static cloth for around 5 bucks.
Just wanted to say, you have some great vids! I'll be checking more of them out now that I am aware of them!! I have fully restored only 9 arcade cabinets in my lifetime, but recently have decided to get back into it. The last one I did (prior to the one I am working on now) was in 2004 and youtube didn't even exist then!!! It would have been great to have had some video's like this available then! I restored 3 original PACMAN full size uprights, a Burgertime, a Bump N Jump, a Dig Dug, a MS PACMAN coctail, a Trivia King which was actually a PACMAN upright originally, and I restored a Ninja Gaiden cab for a friend of mine. Now I just purchased a MS PACMAN upright that was completely non-working and I have the electronics going but have to restore the cab. The biggest thing that REALLY SUCKS about doing these today is the fact that you can NO LONGER purchase new CRT monitors! The last one I did back in 04 you could still buy brand spanking new Wells Gardner crt monitors for 150 bucks- Now you have to buy used pieces of shit that can be a nightmare getting them right, and they almost always have burn in. I don't know about you, but in my opinion LCD takes away from the originality of the machine- I don't like using them in a classic cab. I just put one in my MS PACMAN and I disliked it so badly that I ripped it back out and decided to fix the original monitor which was a GIANT pain in the ass!! Do you happen to know where I can find some decent crt monitors that won't require me taking a second mortgage out on my house to buy??? LOL
Don't spray any liquid on any PCB and then power it up. Has nothing to do with Windex. If worried, spray it on a towel first. Thanks for watching!
+John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech I didn't power it up until hours after cleaning it... I was told at the time that from cleaning the monitor with Windex and a regular cloth that I had too much static built up and thats what fried the board... but he could have just told me that because he didn't know why it fried... but ever since then I use anti-static stuff around electronics
john, you are a perfectionist. and thats good. love your vids. makes me want to go out and buy and restore an old game.
I'm glad I watched all these videos. Good job & great tutorial!
Good job on that John! I am just starting my collection and I watch all your videos and pay alot of attention to your tech stuff so i can get to know arcade games I am a pinball collector right now but im getting a Time Pilot and a Vurtra Cop 2 both a project and im hoping to get a pac man soon i have been wanting one for ever!
Finished is looking mint and crisp John
Absolutely beautiful! Congratulations on the restoration. Just about to go watch the next ep in this series. I'd give that machine a permanent home in my studio, any day! ...Dreaming on. ;)
The cabinet looks fantastic. The effort really shows. As for the Sharpie, it would be how I'd do it for those final touch up's, too. And, if the Fates allow, I'll be coming back to this series of videos to help build my Pac-Man, too. I've NEVER seen a machine giving out 1, 2 OR 5 lives. What a cheap skate arcade owner that sets to 1 life!
Yeah, one or two lives would be sooo wrong and cheap! LOL! Five is just too many.
Awesome resto!!! Congrats John
Awesome job John, well done, the cab looks sweet :) I really enjoy this kind of videos and I can't wait for your upcoming arcade restoration videos. I think the next arcade game you should get is Juno First. As always man great video.
Juno First is a very cool game. I would not mind getting one of those.
good job i have been waiting for this
Good job John! You can almost imagine what a pac looked like out of the factory.
Great admire from Hong Kong!!
Totally awesome!! I really admire your effort put into restoring this machine. I can feel your excitment seeing the machine in superb shape!
Can't believe I've been into this series of video following your every step forward to restoring this arcade for such a long time, SUPER AWESOME! Great job John!
Gonna miss this series when it ends...
It's now 1:53am in Hong Kong and I am sooooooo sleepy but i just can't stop myself from watching the whole video :P
It just makes me happy when you said "we" instead of "I", made everyone feel like they are with you through the journey!
Thank you very much!! I love Hong Kong. Maybe we can get a Tsingtao in Tsim sha tsui. :D
John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech sure! do inbox me when you come to hong kong and i can be your tour guide...for game centers (arcades)!
Polar Wong This is a good idea!!! :D Here are some I went to: johnsarcade.com/hk/index.html
John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech Most of the game centers looks like these these days... But I found one old center has two ms pacman jr (or pacman jr?)....
Wow! Really? Yes, every arcade I have been to has big modern games or only candy cabs with King of Fighters or Street Fighter.
She's a beautiful cab John... respect and well done. I enjoyed the vinyl application part, thats my next job!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.:)
Totally sweeeeeeet! Regards the Sharpie - I would do the same thing, it just tidies up edges and once all wiped down I am sure it looks like new on close inspection. A*. Thanks for sharing this!
Hey John I have been watching all of your restore videos and once again you did a fantastic job. I also want to say I did the same thing with the sharpie on my mame cabinet lol. I really don't see a problem doing that. U pretty much can't even tell when it's done.
I gotta say, man, watching you do all of these restores makes me want to own and restore a couple of cabinets!
Yeah, you should totally do it! It's fun. :)
Love the arcade ambiance... hearing Pole Position's attract throughout the whole thing is very comforting...
Thanks, I was worried people were gonna complain about the attract sounds. :D
John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech I actually found the small part when the games were turned off to be a little sad and depressing.
Sterling work John, very inspiring!
Subscribed! Great series you had there.
You're the man John, another great vid. Keep it up.
Coming from the Sausage King of Pittsburgh this means much. THANK YOU! :)
John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech That's Pittsburg with no "h", in Kansas. Great work, can't wait to watch the final steps. I'm working on a Dig Dug restore at the moment and you cover it all my friend.
Great job John! Great inspiration to my ongoing Galaga restore. Greetings from Germany!
Congrats man! It looks great! :D
Looks sweet . I've always loved the Pac-Man Cabaret. I have tried for almost 20 years to buy one 5 mins from me in an old roller rink. It has been there since early 80's broken. Looks brand new. Always got told the vender may want it back? I always return with after 25 years or more I think he has forgotten about it....still wont sell it...lol
Did you ever end up getting them to sell it to you?
looks beautiful John, looking forward to seeing a game played once it is truly finished, back door and all. I wouldn't worry too much about the tiny bits of bare wood showing, you could always put a bit of stain on that with a tiny brush is you could be bothered.
Well done, John!
looks great! Here is a tip, buy a roll of gaffers tape, it is really easy to take off and doesn't leave any tape residue. I only say that because I saw at 24:00 you spent a lil bit getting the masking tape off. It's not as strong overtime but for a temporary tape job it would work way easier than masking tape. Cabinet looks great, I was worried when I saw those wrinkles when you laid it on top but after you put it on it looked perfect! Thanks again for another awesome video!
1:09 Wow, nice way to surprise us! I was expecting you to cut away (like you usually do) but bam! It starts right there.
Can't wait to watch this tonight Johnny!
I'm concerned now though that your restoration videos are going to cease for the winter.
I like your review videos too, but love the whole 'inside the cab' stuff as well...
Anyway - happy Christmas to you and yours, and also to the AO podcast crew!
Simon, I'm gonna find some other stuff to "restore" in the basement. I have a few things that need to be done. I'm sure I can find some work to do in the basement that's not too messy. I know I have some monitors to cap, some art to apply, etc.
Fantastic... look forward to it!
Hi John
Awesome restore bud, I have a little tip for you the next time you apply vinyl wrap onto a cabinet like in your video.
Before you apply the vinyl if you get some paint that’s a very close match to the vinyl you’re applying and paint all round the edges and up to the T-Molding grove on the cab when you apply the vinyl you will not see any of the underlying board (even if you make a mistake) it will look sharp and crisp and when you apply the T-Molding it looks like its factory new.
I've used this method before and it looks stunning on cabinets like yours with wood grain effect vinyl.
Yeah, I had that same thought after I was done. :) Oh, well! NEXT TIME! I'm still learning. Thanks for the tip!!!
That Pole Position attract noise has drilled itself into my brain.
Super job. Sharpies are my favorite pens also.
Looks Good You Did A Great Job
Nice work! Turned out great. I do a lot of vinyls on picture cars and rapid tack is a must. Also, with the vinyl so thin you could have put a skim coat over the sides and sealed it up with a piss coat. We use shellac and alcohol. Seals up everything nice. Mdf, wood, pressboard ect....
Looking forward to the next restore!
This skim coat idea is probably a good one! Next time! The vinyl was thin and it did show everything. But, at the end of the day, it looks great! :D
Yeah, a layer of paint / sealer on the particle board would have been a good idea. Water on exposed pressed board fibers, especially trapped under vinyl doesn't sound like a good idea. Just a guess, but it probably messed up the smooth sanded surface and probably caused small bits of swelling.
Good job John, Pacman's the best game.
look nice :) one thing i would have done in preparing stage would have been, when you had the paint out is paint the corners of t molding sides would save you the sharpie treatment :)
Great work, John. You gave me motivation to finish my Road Show Pinball restoration. I want to put the decals before snow comes. ;-)
Awesome! Road Show is a fun pin! Love it.
John your awesome!!!😄
Hey I really enjoy your videos
I am having that same lock problem as we speak! I am glad I saw it needs to be bent!
great video as always, liked.
Hey John, in the future fold the excess over and cut it along the t-molding track this way when you apply the t-molding it will lock the edges in and create a nice tight clean edge that won't peel.
Wow... You did a great job man...
I haven't heard the word "barb" so much since that one episode of Stranger Things!
The sharpie was fine, but I bet one of those scratch remover stain pens would work even on places like that tear in the vinyl. It doesn't matter (besides the fact that this is three years later), because it looks good anyway.
Good job on the Pac, man!
Hi John, Great job. In regards to the vinyl, I have done something similar, I cut it too wide and folded it under the t molding.
Cool video as always :) I hope you keep making them!
It would be pretty awesome to see you get a quality Bluetooth mic and a visor/glasses mounted camera. Then you could set up other cameras on tripods and just cut between perspectives as needed :)
Great job.
John..Spray the the coin door with Scotts Liquid Gold..It will give it a awesome sheen...says not to use on paint but works awesome..Works really good on Williams cabinets (Robotron!) on the black paint on the front & the coin doors but its very slick but its awesome...Lock needs angle hasp to clear the slam switch..ha ha ....Rookie ha ha !!
Phew, was there with you the whole 9 vids, and I'll be there for the DVD also.
Just JO.......
If you put transfer paper over the top of the vinyls that will prevent the scratching of the vinyls !
I used Rapid Tac for all my vintage vending machines a great product!
Great Videos!
49:43 - John, you seem petrified of that staple gun! =)
good arcade john
pac man is one of my favorite games of all time
Hey john I have a question for you do you know what size of screws usually hold a coin door on??? Im currently installing a new coin door and I was wondering so it would properly fit and close....
Nice music too!
Thanks!!
Really enjoyed this series John - the Pac looks great ! Any plans for your next project?
I think the next BIG project will be the Quantum. Probably not 'til April. I have plenty of stuff do in-between too. :)
Awesome restore job. All you need to do is spend some more time with that sharpie on the bits of particle board and you're good. I love the attract sounds, by the way.
Hey John this is my second watch through of this restoration. On the bottom where you were trying to wrap the Tmolding, how come you just didn't cut out a little bit of it like you did on the top?
Also the easiest way to set dip switches. Play the game in Mame,go into the ingame menu,and set the dip switches the way you like and it will show you what dip switches are on and which ones are off.
I used a similar vinyl wrap on the tabletop I built, but it wasn't exactly wide enough and I had to butt two pieces together. They eventually shrank and left a gap between the two about a 16th of an inch. My vinyl might have been cheaper, it seemed to be more like a drawer liner. What brand would you recommend?
What kind of microswitch is the one thats on a coin mechanism?
Mine doesn't have them so need to buy them
I know this video was 9 years ago but do they still sell that og 80's stick on Vinyl any place? I'm looking and can't find it in that size and color. I found a few things but nothing perfect like that in over 18". Amazon has one great option but its 17.7" wide! Lol
This is great series of videos and inspiring. Do you have any tips for finding cheap machines to restore/repair as a hobby. I am in Canada and a newbie.
Microfiber towels and a better glass cleaner are your friends! Especially with all the work you have done.
Just finished watching this last part its 4am UK. I have the same cabaret on loan to me from a friend and he's looking to sell, this has given me the inspiration to restore it properly. Hope I can find the mask you used on the control panel over here. The freeplay/highscore save mod is well worth doing which one you looking at - there's a few around.
One thing I would love if you could do sometime would be a short vid just about lamps, there's so many different ones, how do you identify the type needed for an existing holder when you get a new game etc?
Awesome work - 30 year old machine starts off looking beat up and ends up looking like new.
Thanks, James! In one of the earlier vids I tested the voltages on the lamp holder to determine if it was a 5V or 12V lamp. It was 12Vs so I put 161s in there. These worked fine but it was a little dim. The manual revealed they should be 194s which is much brighter.
A repro version with the NAMCO copyright can be purchased from Two-Bits.
I was gonna do the Souzilla high score mod with the NVRAM adapter.
John's Arcade Game Reviews & Tech Wow! Just looked at the souzilla one, I really want to apply that to my board but that adaptor looks way complicated. The ROM programming is no problem - are you going to buy the NVRAM board pre-made or do a cool "hackers" video on doing the wire-job?
retrogamesparty I already ordered the NVRAM board. I don't think it's complicated if you just want high-score save. It gets complicated if you want the multi-game capabilities. I'll be doing a video of the NVRAM board install soon.
"See these nuts right here?"
Insert Beavis and Butthead laugh here.
They actually do make paint markers for woodgrain parts you could have used instead of the sharpie. But sharpie works too.
John, instead of using the marker after the fact why didn't you paint the edge of the cabinet brown? this way when you apply the vinyl the edges will look flawless. Use brown oil paint and a thin roller.
Hi John. Won't the vinyl come off in a couple of years by applying it directly to the MDF? I usually paint everything either black or dark brown first so that the faux wood vinyl sticks better to the wood (especially over time). It also hides imperfections made while cutting the edges of the vinyl.
Dunno. It was originally installed the same way I did it. Directly on the Particle.
12:00 that's a rare sentence if I ever heard one!
LOL! "My god my butt is starting all these games!"
that whole time with the monitor i was thinking WTF it is hanging out the back.
weird design.
But nice job!
7:05 sounds like the game was reacting to you saying you want to turn it off!
@07:42"This is not the time to cut corners" Haha, you already cut the corner! :)
It's very odd to me that in this day and age it's cheaper to print imitation wood designs on sticky-back plastic and attach them to boards made from compressed sawdust, wood shavings and glue than it is it to varnish a nice bit of oak or pine! Nice job though John; it looks great.
Ha! Well, this is how it was done in the 80s. I'm just trying to recreate it. :D
Yea. I’d rather have it look authentic than have nicer wood. A nice bit of oak or pine doesn't bring back nostalgia.
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Vinyl printing is arguably the more modern approach. I just found it bizarre that we've come to this stage in the world. There are a lot of other seemingly odd things we do (because they appear harder to achieve) now but must cost less in the long run.
usually don't pay too much attention to the music but man at 33:00ish, that is some good shit....
+dpaslaski Thanks, man! That's one of my songs. I'm singing and playing guitar.
yeah! part 10 coming soon.
I just got a survey from Blizzard about Blizzcon, my answer to "What performer would you most list to see at future BlizzCons" was "The Kill Screens" :)
Dude, that's awesome!!!! THANKS!
Your welcome jon!!! I enjoy watching Your vids.I learn a lot." LONG LIVE ARCADES",,, Peace out!!
Hey John! Do you have a link/name for the wood grain decal?
I don't remember! I think talk about this in the video? It was on ebay and from Hong Kong
hi johns arcade so you restore and fix arcade machines? so im am a comic book fan did you oun any bat man superman comic books? thanks for your entertament
did you check the pot for the volume to see if its dirty that mite be way it was bossing i could be rowing
Yay woo
When can you buy the Arcade Game called:''RoadBlasters"?
OMG!! I AM GOING TO DIE!!! LOL! :)
I usually do a tap dance while playing to avoid blod clots in my legs. The chicks playing in the arcade dig it too.
Isn't that from the guy actually sitting in the same spot for hours? I know I have read somewhere if you sit in the same spot for like 8-10 hours with no movement it can lead to death not sure why.. But maybe that's why truck drivers are forced to take breaks ever so often ?
*Tip for when using vinyl*: Remove anything stuck onto the thing you are applying the vinyl to,if you dont, it will look like crap,especially stickers.