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Eight Ball Deluxe Owner Club & Restorations Guests Welcome As Well

By Hellfire

10 years ago


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#233 9 years ago

You guys have inspired me with this thread! I've owned a nice playing EBDLE for many years. It started out life as an arcade machine, so it has its battle scars. Also, "techs" that have done work on it over the years, were nothing but hacks.

I've recently been accumulating parts, electronic and playfield. Now I'm ready for the project to start in earnest.

I will upload pictures along the way. This plans on being a higher end total restoration but not necessarily all original. LED's, high gloss cabinet and playfield, and who knows what else.

Along the way, I hope I can find some support and help. Even though I'm going to take lots of pics, inevitably, I'll forget how somethings goes back together.

The first thing I do need to ask, does any one have a code, close to the color of the gold used on the LE cabinet? It is very hard to match up.

Thx.

#237 9 years ago

My Naked LE! No going back now.

I've stripped it down and the resto has started. I'm going to concentrate on the cabinet first. It has a couple extra holes near the coin door that need filling. There is also the common, fiber board damage along the bottom back.

There were a few scrapes that were touched up over the years that will need addressing.

After pulling off the stainless side protectors, I was amazed at the amount of fade on the gold.

When I referred to this as a higher end resto, all I was referring to was I was going to spend the money to get things done right...by professionals. The cabinet will be prepped and sprayed by a pro. I still need to match the gold. It is very unusual, and I'm not sure if its actually a gold or a green/yellow.

I have no illusion of this being a quick restoration. Especially relying on others to tackle some of the work. I still need to make another playfield rotisserie before I can dig into that part of it.

Here's some pics of my starting point.

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#238 9 years ago

A few other pics of what I have to start with.

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#242 9 years ago

Could someone please take a pic of the instruction sheet on the back box? I need to reproduce one for my machine. Thanks in advance.

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#256 8 years ago
Quoted from indypinhead:

Can't wait to see what the cabinet looks like when finshed.
Where did you buy the stencils you plan on using?
I'm wanting to re-do the cabinet on my LE soon.

Beautiful job on your playfield. I can only hope mine is that nice in 146 hours. As for the stencils, I don't have any. The graphics were all complete on the cabinet and I traced 2 copies of each.

I have a buddy that has been painting for years, and he says it will be no problem making his own from the tracings. I figured I'd let him try because the worst case scenario is I'd have to resand and order a set.

I still am having trouble deciding the actual gold color to spray it with. I'm afraid it will be too gold!

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