Nice show of self control there John. I would have blown a fuse

every time you say rapid tac i understand rap attack :D

Lookin good man! Getting ready to do full side art on my TMNT; this video gave me cofidence to pull it off successfully :)

John, you da man! We really appreciate you being so open and showing all of your process. Even your mistakes! Most people would hide or edit out the mistakes and errors. All props to you for your openness and honesty!

What an absolute ballache! Your patience is amazing, John. I'd be absolutely livid there was no premask or easy peel backing for those vinyl pieces.

Excellent job on all that artwork! I was nervous watching you do it, so I can imagine how you felt! Looks great!

Hey John, glad to hear that you have a new camera! That's great!

Johnny you did great! and you handled that Booboo like a gentleman, some would be cussing up a storm. respect!

This is a really fantastic KZfaq channel! Enjoying your videos, John.

Looks great John! You will never see the damage. Will be putting side art on my bottom of the ninth soon. You made it look easy. Keep up the great work thanks, john

25,000 subs!!! Wow... WOW looks great man WOW! I've been waiting for this vid, didn't think it was over 3 years tho, I got full art I need to do also! Thanks Big guy great work!

Thumbs up John! Don't beat yourself up over small things. thank you for all that you do for us fans!!!

Great job on that art install, makes me more confident about doing it myself haha.

Great job man! I think the issue you had was more with the brittleness of the vinyl than the fact that it was full side art. You seemed to handle the alignment quite well. Looks great and can't wait to see it finished!

Awesome work John!

Good job John.This cabinet looks gorgeous! Just one burst bubble when you went too fast is not a biggie, some touch up work and all is good.

John, you should use bean bags as weights to provide pressure. This should allow you freedom to adjust the art work prior to securing it in place with clamps or tape.

We never had a Quantum in any arcades in my area so I wasn't familiar with this game until watching this restore series. I loaded it on my MAME cabinet and WOW! It's a really cool game but seriously HARD! lol. Love this series John and good job on this artwork install. Looks great.

Nice work John! You inspired me to fire up the MAME computer and play Quantum( I have an X-ARCADE Tankstick so i have a trackball :) ) .. That is a hard game! .. and YES more DK Remix vidos!!!!

A little trick a friend of mine that does signage taught me, when you have straight print that isn't clear laminated, use the paper you peel off to protect the ink and the print while you are using the squeegee and the roller. I keep a large piece around just for that purpose. Also, if you have a large bubble like the one that caused you to lose the paint, use an exacto and just barely prick the center of the bubble. It lets out the air that causes the damage. You (or anyone else) will never be able to see it.

looks great John

Windex works fine in place of Rapid Tac. I applied sideart with Windex 10 years ago and it's still perfect; no air bubbles and it's perfectly adhered. The advantage of Windex is that it's cheaper and you can buy it anywhere; most people probably already have some onhand.

Love the new camera already. And it's in widescreen.

John I have a potential fix for your white bubble hole (rip) in your left side art... 1) Using a super fine grit (polish grade) sandpaper, knock off the loose vinyl around the edges of the white hole and feather it all out nice and smooth 2) Mask out the entire blue triangle and paint it using as close a color match as possible. If you can get close to the surrounding gloss level in the original artwork and you are able to polish the hole down smooth enough it should be totally undetectable when finished. Trying to color match the original triangle and touching up just the hole is likely to be virtually impossible. Just a thought. If you do this you might want to consider using brown paint instead of blue and doing it on both sides to make this a truly unique JOHN creation. Might even increase the value of the unit.. ;-)LOVE YOUR WORK MAN!!! GL!

For the bubble you popped try and do some digging and find the pantone number for the exact colour match. The printers should have it. Also to fix your old cam use some old IDE Hard Drive cable, tear it into single strands an have a go at bridging the ribbon cable with soldering. U maybe able to get it working just to get the video off it and maybe it would make a great mid week video. All the best John.

Looks sharp man, good job.

I can't imagine doing something like this solo...amazing!

Yippee ki-yay !!!Great Vid !!

Brilliant,i am 48 spent all my spondoolies on these machines great videos,all the best from Nick from uk doncaster 😀

I'm always surprised how the popcorn machine is still on the table at the end of the video.

Way to keep it together and push through it. Any one of us could have let that get to them and let it affect their work and enjoyment. Great job staying focused. I know at the end of the day you'll make that blemish nearly invisible.

Recommendation: try a wallpaper roller instead of scraping the squeegee. It's a small roller with very firm rubber. I've never had art damaged using that method.

I can't even install the screen protector on my phone. It always folds or drops on the floor. I cannot imagine putting the side art on a cab. Nice work.

Looking Great

Lol, you properly fucked up my name there, mate! Glad I could help though - you're providing hours of unique and ad-free entertainment. Much more than I could ever pay you for. Thanks!

The tears in the artwork that happened during installation are Phoenix Arcade's fault. They wouldn't have happened had there been premask on the artwork, and there's no excuse for not putting premask on such expensive sideart.

John, next time use a file to trim the vinyl. Pull down at 45 degrees ...will work great on the outside corners (inside corners will still be tricky). Use this method for all trimming even the long straightaways

this is so radical!

You are very welcome, sir! 👍

You should have had Rich send you a little bit of the original ink he used so you could use it to touch up that popped air bubble (I don't know what you ended up doing about it because I'm still watching). Another option would be to have him print you a triangular shaped piece of vinyl in that color that you could stick over that whole section.

Hey John good video, Ill check I might have some left over ink from that printing I can send you to do the touch up. The trick to avoid that mishap when your squegeeing that down go little slower when your working your way up and dont leave ANY bubbles behind

Since that area is a solid color and has straight lines maybe if you flatten the damaged area rich can just print that blue triangle.

why not roll the art around the tube and use the tube to unroll as you go while pulling the paper off the next section instead of just using it as a support?

thanks John. the front of my Galaga '88 is just fine but the Vynl was coming off the left side and the back corners are chewed up because I assume that they kept getting rocked on. I plan on doing both sides to match...

There may be a way to get that information off of the camera. I'd be more than happy to take a look for you. If nothing else the ribbon cable could be replaced to get that information.

You're doing great, no worries. ;)

and I'm pretty sure that white spot on the triangle is just a highlight like on the spheres... ;)

51:50 Gah! It couldn't have happened on one of the white spots?!?!? You would have never noticed it.

Also I believe the vinyl was getting old. Even 3m (which is the best) is only a 5-7 year exterior sign grade product. But that is outside in the elements. On your machine in the basement expect much longer life. However it also does not age well just sitting around on the roll like it did.

Hey John, It's easier to start from the middle to align it ;)

Anyone else scream at the screen when John started using the non-felt edge on the second half of the kickplate? (⊙△⊙)

The cabinet is looking dead nuts on

Looking at you do this method really scared me each time you pushed up against roll I was afraid it would catch a corner of the squeegie and rrrrrriiippp!

John I hope you autograph your cabinets for posterity

Next time you're faced with such a part, put the art work down face up first, then put the piece on top (also, face up). Do your measurement (because then you can see it perfectly aligned) and mark them with a sharpie (the non permanent ones, Edding has two styles you can clean with water, very good, doesn't smudge at all) and reverse the positions. Centering the art work this way is a piece of cake and whenever i'm faced with putting decals and things similar i always try to cheat it that way. Worst case scenario, where you can't actually remove the part from the cabinet, get a sheet of paper that's the same size with the art work, then put it over a window and transfer the important lines to it, you can then mangle that piece of paper however you desire and at the end, you'll have the perfect spots where to place your artwork in one go, you just need to transfer those on the art work in the reverse of the previous operation. One other method (where it's applicable) that really is helpful when you're doing art work over holes and you need to match them is to take very thin sewing needles (super cheap packs of ten or more on Amazon or eBay) and poke them in the art work at the very edge of the art (where the hole would go). Have like 4 of them in a + pattern. That done, you can then simply shove the art work over the holes with those needles in place. And the last method is this one and by far it's the simplest, but only when your decal backing paper allows it (sometimes they use that really hard to write on almost plastic like paper or sometimes they use black paper with white lines, especially 3M) is to once again take your art work and put it (facing away from you) on the window and then trace the art work's key design elements on the back. Once you've done that, go back to your part and simply, sitting on the other side you'd normally sit on, apply your art work by seeing the cheat marks you've made. I tell you, it saves a metric crap ton of work doing things like this. I was passed these methods as well, before i'd measure and waste hours trying to get it perfect, no point when you can alter the playing field in your favor. Also, i think 3M (at least) allows for custom backing paper. I'm wondering, why for, such a critical piece like that front decal, the guys at the reproduction shop didn't ask for that. I mean, it's only 10 dollars (at worst, since it's just lines) extra.

What about you Ghostbusters arrival and unboxing?

Re: 47:22 - that's super clever.

I know im late but I just watched the video today. About that purple triangle mistake, how about reprinting just the triangle and stick it over the damaged one?

John, check iFixit... might have a How To for that camera

Hey John, If you add a paypa address, people outisde of the Fan Support region bubble could help, too. Currently it is just: Which countries support voluntary Fan Funding payments? You can make voluntary Fan Funding payments if you are located in the following countries: Australia France Mexico Spain United Kingdom United States Japan

They really should have used the pre mask if the vinyl is that easily torn.

1:02:03 is it me or did 'ol Johnny boy bake some brownies ;-)?

John, are you still planning to meet up with Todd Tuckey at TNT Amusements? Jason

Watching John put full length side art onto a cabinet is one of the most intense things I've ever seen. Also not sure I'm feeling this camera yet. Colors seem a little washed out or the whole image has somewhat of a blur to it. Not sure if that was youtube chewing it up on upload or what. Also seems to have a slight strobe like effect on motion. But really I think the older camera has a better image. Though if you get both cameras working again, be a bit more editing but having two sets of footage should make shots when you're working inside the cabinet go much easier.

Her John, I notice you have a second Computer Space cabinet in your garage. Are you re-building that game?

Dear John,I love arcades. you are the one who got me to want to start collecting. i can't find a cheap arcade game so i've been buy gams lik namco museum to play the games. if you could tell me where to start to find cheap arcade games because i live in nebraska and when I can't find people who sell games on craigs list. If you could, I would really like it.

I'm early. I'm the 2nd one to comment.

MFer right?! good thing it's on the triangle. cut and lay another vinyl piece color matching it over the whole triangle. never be seen again.

I bought the Ms Pac art off of PhoenixArcade and I was extremely disappointed with it. Not only did the quality feel cheap, but the scale of everything was off, and I had the same issue as John, where there wasn't enough vinyl to properly position things. I would get Ms Pac's fist right where it needed to be on the front side of the cab, and then the back side wasn't even reaching. I can't recommend using PhoenixArcade for vinyl art... In fact, the guy basically banned me from shopping with him and he was generally unpleasant to deal with when I got a refund for the art. He tried to blame my incompetence with applying the art but no amount of competence is going to magically make the art scaled properly and the vinyl big enough to properly apply to the cab.

Hey john why don't you give away the broken camera?

well that tore it...

Americans must be good with fractions, it's always quarters and eights :)

man the sound of the squeegee is rough lol

thought you did put full side art on something else.

John, great video, Curious the differences of Rapid Tac and a bottle of soapy water to apply decals? I put the game blades on the sides of the cabinet of the pinball machines using soapy water. Video here for reference : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNJ5pJVzuqixnY0.html The soapy water gives you tons of time to lift and adhere the decals on the cabinet. I was just wondering if you have tried both methods using either soapy water or Rapid Tac. If Rapid Tac is that much better I will invest in a bottle of it. Thanks John.

What do you expect to happen when you stabbing at the artwork like that.

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Third in on the comments.

Never go full side art!

Bahahahaha burst bubble.

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