Kevs Cocktail Arcade Cabinet - Restore and Mame Conversion - 3/3 Cabs

Kevs Cocktail Arcade Cabinet - Restore and Mame Conversion - Cork, Ireland - April 2007 - Cab 3 of 3

Videos and Pics at:
https://picasaweb.google.com/113436818204137485737/MyCocktailCabinet#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK0hzOA17WA

Rough Unedited Notes from My Build Log below

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History Of the Cabinet:

Its a Cocktail that got me started into Mame and arcades.
Used to play on Cocktail and Standups in Arcade in Coolea in Cork 25 years ago.
Loved it and about 5 years ago was talking to owner of the shop with Arcades and said man Id love to get hold of one of those old arcades he had.

And he was like sure I still have one in garage out the back, u want it
It hadnt seen light in 20 years, all glass top was smashed to bits, buckets of rust in the legs, inside filled with dirt and grime, loads of glass.
So brought it up in back of Ford Focus Its even powered on but cudnt amke out picture.

Actually very easy to restore one, well I Mame'd mine, redid The CP and put mirrored glass top on it, which is my fav part,
when its off, its a mirror but turn it on and light is allow out of top but not vice versa.

Its nothing special, but means alot more knowing i played same one 25 years ago and it was I that rebuilt it.
Kept same wood top, lucky it still had bezel, CP lights up, bottom metal work all repainted by hand and had to sandblast rust of legs 50e.

All in all I love it and actually looks fine in sitting room. Id recommend restore as was so easy.
14 inch PC monitor without casing even fitted into old brackets it came with,
Great for Vertical games, but loses half screen for horizontals games, but how bad.

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Notes from Another Post few Years back:

It was not used in 20 years and it worked but glass top in bits, barely working, could make out game on screen.

Rebuilt it:
Sand blasted legs, lots rust,
repainted metal parts,
Redone a Control panel, basic but chrome LEDs.

But PC and 14 inch monitor inside, running Mame.
But is PC 14 inch monitors fitted in fine for me. Could use existing brackets.

Piece de resistance, mirror glass Table Top. When machine is off, cannot see screen,
power it on and screens light aloud pass thru mirrored top and like hidden screen.

Makes it old and modern in one go !!!
I agree with preserving where possible. But in my case its also nice having restored a Cocktail that was ready to be throw into a Dump,
after 20 years in a shed, I mean cocktail was in bits at the time.I had no idea about electronics side of things. I do now, but 3 years ago not a clue.

In my defense this was my first Attempt at building an arcade,
I kept all metal parts, preserve the Legs after costing a lot to get them sandblasted.
Keep all coin doors, resprayed all metal parts, all hinges and internals still kept.
The Wooden Top of it was in very bad shape but I restored that as well and kept Monitor Bevel.
As for electrical innards all stored away for preservation and game board is a Capcom Speed Rumbler Game
That I have on display in games room.

The Glass Top actually looks awesome with proper lighting,
Its modern looking too and mirrored effect hiding screen underneath makes this look pretty great even in corner of large sitting room.

The screen is original screen size too but last Video was very small because these cabinets are designed with 14 inch screen,
so screen only half used for horizontal games, but doubles in size for Vertical Games.
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BEFORE:





Had to GUT It