Stripping the Pac-man cabinet

Even though it was very sad, tonight we stripped the old Pac-man cabinet I had sitting in the garage. Justin was down and he brought with him all of the guts from the Mr. Do I had bought last November.

Now, this Mr. Do was the most hideous thing you had ever seen. It was in an old Space Duel cabinet with chewed up sides, the joystick was sunken in, the monitor didn’t even have a frame so the chassis was attached directly to the wood, etc. etc. I ended up finding a buyer for the thing, a Mame guy, and for $15 I didn’t have to worry about it ever going in the basement.

So, I had some paint stripper, and although I went back and forth on what to do with the Pac-man cabinet, I decided a couple of things. I am tired of walking around it in the garage. It could be one of the most common cabinet, so to destroy the already partially destroyed artwork that had been painted over wouldn’t be as big of a deal. People were making new ones all the time. I also wanted the experience of how to strip one down, it should be a fun project, and I had already bought the stripping stuff.

Overall it took about two and half hours total to strip down to small bits of paint and primer.

Justin and I also got out the old monitor, and put it into a horizontal frame from another tube I had from the Robotron cabinet.

Here are some similar arcade posts

• April 19th, 2007
• Sanding Pac-man cabinet, wiring Mr. Do!
• Ms. Pac-man Stencil Separations
• Ms. Pac-man Stencil File Missing Artwork?
• My Ms. Pac-man Stenciling Progress

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