Sadly, I would.
I have done it with Arcade Machines, and while it is not fun, it is not the end of the world. That said, I would not do it now unless it was some sort of crazy holy grail. Maybe because I have enough arcade projects as is without getting into moldy cabs. Case in point, I just turned down a bunch of stuff that was basically free because I didn't want to deal with the mold.
Anyways, I don't have a ton of pins and they aren't easy to find locally. So I am willing to put the elbow grease in.
These are from a bulk body only find where I intended on stripping the cabs. I knew some had mold, but wasn't too worried if I was just stripping play fields as they were pretty much unaffected. However, it looks like I might be able to find a bunch of heads for them so that kind of changes things.
Anyways, here is a quick glimpse of what I have to deal with:
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Am I nuts for even bothering with this? No wood rot, but lots of mold. Plus rust.
Plan is to spray everything inside with bleech and water solution let dry, than Spray 9 (cleaner and degreaser that kills mold), let dry, vacuum and clean, strip all parts, clean all parts, sand inside of cab, seal inside of cab.
Do the normal restore cleanup and by then hopefully have a nice non moldy cab.
Thoughts? Suggestions of dealing with mold? I see surprisingly few posts about mold here.