May 16th, 2007

Got out tonight and worked on the control panel. The control panel I am using is a rusted, beat up Pac-man with most of the chewed up overlay still on it. I had gradiose ideas of taking that off in one piece and keeping it, but sad to say, in the end it was anything but in one piece. I did some scraping to take away the outside plastic layer with a 5 in 1, and then started trying different chemicals to get it off.

I had read Acetone worked really good for getting Midway overlay’s off, but all that did was take off the painted artwork for the overlay, it did nothing for the 3M adhesive. I tried Goof Off, and that worked fairly good, but the best was the same remaining paint stripper I used on the cabinet (Stripeeze). That got me right down to the painted panel.

I got it sanded down fairly well. I thought briefly about leaving it as just the metal color, but I would have had to work that much harder on the details to get out all the small areas of paint left. I didn’t need to in painting it over, so I wiping it down, and gave it two coats of spray paint before the night was over. Looking pretty cool, amazing how nice it looks after you do that. I was pretty surprised when I sanded down the exposed panel on the Pac-man I have.

Next is setting up the wood for the backside, which a friend was going to help me but he may be busy for awhile now, I am not sure.

Here are some similar arcade posts

• May 11th, 2007
• Finish and repeating Professor Pac-man character
• Finished vectorizing Jr. Pac-man cpanel overlay
• Dig Dug restoration progress Aug. 20th-Sept. 25th, 2006
• Taking off Land, Sea, Air overlay from Dig Dug

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