Psykick's Candy refurb and pimp project..

[Psykick]

Hi guys,

Finally took some time to post a topic concerning my whole project of getting my two cabs finished and up and running. It's about completely renovating a New Astro City which I recently bought of the deal in Holland, these cabs were in horrific state and finishing off the job I started on the Neo Candy 29.

I'm going to try to post in order of where I started and will update now and then as progress is being made, of which I hope will be very soon. First of all some pics of the Astro been taken apart. I'll also will try to mention what the cost of all the things are so we can get a pretty accurate picture of what the total will be on the end. First of all the Astro cost me 525 Euro and 50 Euro voor the trip to pick it up.

































These were some random pics of the disassembly process, as you can see it was in a horrible state and I really had no choice then to rip it all apart....

[Psykick]

After taking it all apart the next step was to take it to a carwash to thoroughly clean it with highpressure sprayfoam and shit. I had to get all that gooey shit of the cab first before it was going to the painter. This all costed me 10 Euro...


















Now the parts are ready to get their paintjob, at first it was a bit hard to find someone fit for the job and they charged too much, but finally I found someone through a friend who is going to do it for around 200 Euro. The result will be seen on next monday I hope, I already heard it's done and it looks superb!

Waiting for the paintjob gives me time to start with the internals of the cab. First of I wanted to start with the monitor, all the monitors were in pretty bad shape cosmetic wise, not burn in or something. So I went to a glassrepair company and let them polish my monitor. You can't see it in the pictures but there were a lot of scratches on the surface and I had to get rid of those. Luckily those scratches are all in the coatinglayer and can be polished, so you get rid of the whole coating and of course all the scratches vanish!











Carefully look at the pics and you can see a difference in colour where the coating has been...









The polishing machine couldn't handle the outer side of the monitor, so we did that by hand...



And there you go, a perfectly shining, scratchfree monitor, fantastic!







This costed merely 35 Euro!

[Psykick]

I'm also going to turn the cab into 220 plus I want to coinmech to be Euro, so I went off to Suzo in Holland and bought me a new 0,50 coinmech plus loads of other things I will show later.






This was just a drop in replacement en it costed 25 Euro

At this time I'm waiting for a lot of stuff to come from Excellent and some things from EBay and Ultimarc to continue on the puzzle and all. So to be continued....

In the meanwhile I'm working on finishing my Neo Candy that is almost done, there just a lot of internal things that I need to finish. I want this to be a machine that can house a Dreamcast, Gamecube, Xbox 360, MAME and a MVS. I 've come a long way from what it was and will show you some pics from a long time ago and from where it is going now.




















A lot of things in this cab are custom, like the speakers, the Neo 29 marquee, the neon and the whole internal cabling etc. etc.


Here's an impression of my crib with all the parts scattered all over the place, on the ground there are 2 pc's that I'll use for MAME later..

[Psykick]

Here'sa small update on my Neo 29, I created some more space in the cab by lifting the Subwoofer and puting the Dreamcast and VGA switcher underneath it. This way I'll probably be able to fit a 360, MAME PC and 1 slot MVS in there...

[alien_mame]

I'm absolutely speechless d00d. Noce work on the Neo29, and I can't wait to see the finished Astro.

Thanks for sharing.

[gundaRn]

I wonder if that sort of glass polishing would help my monitor?
It's an interesting option.

[joeblade]

Very nice project psykick & seems to be going from strength to strength..

I managed to fit a few bits into my blast but i think you could be going for a "console in cab shizzle" record right there fella!!

Great work on the astro too....can't wait to see the final assembly and results...

[vib_ribbon]

wow.... soooooo much work and effort!! i'm sure it'll all be worth while. hope you know how to put everything back together again.

[Psykick]

Yeah hope so too ;) but I don't think it'll be a big problem, anyway thnx for the support guys and will keep you up to date ;)

Btw I'm gonna go for the record Joe, start calling Guinness!

[Mr-Megalo]

I remember when you first did that Neo,

look forward to seeing the freshly pimped Astro and both cabs side by side