Hello all Pinsiders!
This is my long-awaited start on restoring my Gottlieb Drop-A-Card. The cab was in pitiful shape and needed a new bottom and paint, it was splitting at ALL the seams...
I went about knocking off the back to slide the bottom out, and it turns out a previous owner had put about a handful of nails at random throughout the back and sides of the cabinet to hold it together! To make matters worse, to cover a hole in the bottom of the cab, they took a big hunk of 2x4s and nailed them all together with about 40 nails all along the perimeter of the pin underside...
After lots of prying and hammering I got all the offending pieces off and pulled out the rotten bottom, but the pin was too flimsy after it's horrible hack job and the sides completely separated.
At this point I have 4 individual sides of a cabinet and I am hoping the armchair experts at Pinside can genuinely offer some advice on how to put this pin back together!
DISCLAIMER: No I'm not parting this out even with the state if the cab, please don't ask or encourage such barbarism! I will save this game with your help!
TL;DR: My wedgehead has experienced hard times and a rough hack-job of nails to keep the cab together and now it fell apart. What is the best way to put it back together and how do I go about doing that?
I'm preferring to do this as original as possible as any help is appreciated.