I use these plastic mixing boards to make things easier. The bondo is just a standard all-purpose Bondo. We need to mix a little of the hardener in. They suggest about a three inch strip but I like to use a little more than that. Mix it up really good. I usually spend about two minutes or so mixing it up and it makes a huge difference in the outcome if you do that so just be patient. Applying Bondo to me is more of an art than a science. I sometimes use too much but I would rather have too much than have to reapply it. This bottom area had a lot of damage so I'm trying to make sure I have proper coverage and then I can shape it the way I need it with the sander once it all dries up. I usually try to wait about 30 minutes before sanding, although the package says 15. Now let's fill that old card reader area and the button for free play. I stapled a piece of cardboard to the back to make this task easier. Some people will fill it with wood pieces, but I'm just gonna go for it. Don't be afraid to use a generous amount here since there's quite a bit of space to fill in. I would let this part dry a little longer since it's so deep and compacted. Alright, it's time to sand and shape the area. I typically use 80 grit to sand and shape it, and then 180 or 220 to smooth it. Whatever you feel comfortable with, but don't use a sandpaper that's too low grit to sand or shape it, because the Bondo might chunk off and you definitely don't want that. It's looking good so far. Alright, let's get started on the control panel. The original control panel had plastic control panel plates. From my research, most of these were metal. I was able to source a pair of reproduction control panel plates from a community member, Brad Rydell. He's known as the Williams Ninja. If you need a Williams game fixed, he's your guy. You can see the dust caps float inside, just like Midway did on a lot of the 90s games. I find this kind of annoying but it does look really nice on the finished product Okay let apply the artwork I completely lost my squeegee to apply the art so please don do it like this Hopefully it comes out okay despite my lack of preparation I would suggest clamping the art down as you see me doing here and doing one side and then continuing with the other once you have it all laid down. This lip on the control panel can be tricky, so I would suggest pulling on the artwork as you apply it so it doesn't wrinkle up on you. I gotta say, it wasn't easy sourcing all the parts for this control panel restoration, but after I got the control panel inserts, the correct artwork, and the control panel itself, this thing is looking really good. All right guys, we're out in the garage, and this is what the cabinet looks like right now. Now that speaker grill I was talking about, that's this piece right here, and the metal is missing. This is actually what it should look like from the bottom. A lot of these, for some reason, if you find Robotrons out in the wild, you'll notice like this is punched through sometimes, and this has become a little frail over time, but I happen to have one in storage. I may freshen it up and just spray it, put a little poly on it and make it look a little freshened up. But this one was in my storage unit. It looks pretty good. So I'm going to replace that with that. The other thing is the marquee that's on it. That looks good. So it's the stock marquee. I'm just going to leave it. There's no reason to replace it. It looks great and it's original. The control panel came out really good. And the, you know, the Bondo work I had to do in the front of the cabinet came out really good too. So everything's all plugged up. It looks real nice. So really at this point, it's just the artwork. You can see, if you look at the side of the cabinet, let me just move the cabinet across real quick. You'll see that I haven't touched the sides yet. The sides actually have some Bondo work I got to do at the bottom. So I'm going to do that. But obviously right now I got to figure out what I'm going to do because these were stencils. So they're painted on in layers. So I can get the stencils and redo that. I think Sabo has the stencils. So I may do the stencils or I might do, he has this really cool artwork package for it that's kind of different. It's definitely not, it's a take on the original artwork. I know I'm going to get beat up in the comments for it, but it looks really cool. I'm kind of digging it. So I could do that. It would be less work than the stencils, obviously. I've never done a stencil before, though, so I'm very curious and wanting to do that and try it out. you have to layer it on and you you know I'll go to clove or whoever and try to find the original paint colors it's the better option so it might be what I end up doing but anyway so the project's a little bit on hold I hooked the monitor up to the rejuvenator just to test the guns everything reads out pretty good the blue gun was a little bit low but it was still in a good rating so I think the CRT is actually going to be fine it was a later revision CRT so it's one of those, like, it's one of the models I'm not as familiar with, but it's a later model, it's not a common one, really, but it's in good shape, so that's a good thing, and then I just scrubbed all the Robotron boards last night, so those are all looking really nice and clean they actually drying out right now in the corner I just used some alcohol and like a really really soft bristle bristle bristle a really soft bristle brush That hard to say Bristle brush bristle That really hard to say But yeah so the project looking pretty good I am probably going to put the original boards in it run it on the original boards but have it ready to go if I need to do a J So I have an extra J-Rock, so I might as well mount it in there just in case anything goes wrong with the original PCBs. Which, you know, these are, what, coming up on 40 years old? Yeah, 38, 7, I don't know, I can't do the math. They're old, right? So they're going to fail at some point, and sometimes you can repair those things. 90s boards seem to be a little bit more easier to deal with than the 80s boards. So I haven't done a whole lot of fixing of 80s PCBs. So, you know, if it fails, I may have to send that out to someone because that's not something I'm as familiar with. But yeah, everything's coming out pretty good. I'm pretty excited about this. It needed a lot more work than I thought, though. Like when I first got it, I was like, this is sweet. And then I noticed, you know, it had bat tops that had half competition bat tops. It didn't have the Wicco sticks. so there was a bunch of things like the wiring had been kind of janky and messed with because they put the card reader in and they kind of hacked and spliced and you know just normal operator stuff you know trying to get the game up and running so I'm not I'm not judging I know they need to get games running and they do what they need to do plus this one was literally at Castles and Coasters since 1983 so it's got some history to it there's probably some people here in Phoenix a lot of people here in Phoenix that have played this exact Robotron and hopefully my plan is to get it back to its former glory, and we're well on the way, so it looks like there's a lot of work to do, but it's not too bad, we're rounding the corner, and I'm gonna, I'm sorry that I didn't film everything, so there's pieces that are missing, but I'll try to keep all the links in the description of products that I used and things like that, if that's helpful to anybody, but anyways, if you enjoyed the video, give me a thumbs up, consider subscribing to the channel, put your comments below, I want to know what you think about it, are you a fan of Robotron, I mean, who is it, you're trying to save humanity the robots have turned on us we created them and then they turned on us it's like Skynet before Skynet was a thing Eugene Eugene was like he was seeing into the future he knew what was going to happen and now Elon Musk is creating robots and those are going to so we just can't get away if Skynet doesn't happen then Elon will us with his robot army that he's building to do uh this isn't this is sounding political it's not political I mean he is building robots to take, take like people's jobs, yeah, then they're gonna f*** us, crap, I can't really say f*** in videos, Mason, can you bleep f***, then people are gonna think I'm swearing and be confused, anyways, thanks so much for watching, guys, we will see you on the next one.