Net City cab rebuild

[ahcmetal]

I picked up a NNC cab last year and finally got around to fixing it up last month. I know, I know, I turned it into a Net City and the purists will hate that I'm sure...I do however have a complete NNC art kit should it ever need to be converted back. I just prefer the more colorful Net City theme myself

I did a 100% tear down to every last nut and bolt and cleaned up everything to look brand new. Auto body shop respray on the body and powder coated the interior cabinet parts. Pretty much everything else that could be replaced with NOS parts was replaced along with a BIGTIME printed marquee and a FrancoB JVS/Jamma loom.

Anywhos, I figured some of you may want to check it out, here's a link to my Flickr page...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahcmetal/

 

[skate323k137]

That looks absoultely beautiful. I can only hope to give my net cities that kind of teardown and rebuild in the future. The JAMMA / JVS loom is a really nice addition too.

Edit: how do the side rail covers come off? I haven't figured that out.

 

[Craig]

clean as fuck... nice one.

 

[theMot]

That looks amazing, great job!

 

[300wins]

That looks absoultely beautiful. I can only hope to give my net cities that kind of teardown and rebuild in the future. The JAMMA / JVS loom is a really nice addition too.

Edit: how do the side rail covers come off? I haven't figured that out.

There is like 6 security torx on the back. Once you remove that and the top security torx, then you can slide the whole thing upwards.

Good job on the rebuild.

 

[Mugicha]

beautiful, just beautiful. that must've really taken some work to get it lookin that good, congrats man!

 

[xb74]

That is some clean work there and a great result. Reminds me of the shows where they do full tear down restoration of old muscle cars. The before and after is always so surprising.

 

[ahcmetal]

Reminds me of the shows where they do full tear down restoration of old muscle cars

I've got a 71' El Camino I'm working on in my garage right now haha! Thanks guys, I was pretty happy with the results too. I'm sure everybody is familiar with how bad most of these cabs look when we get them so it's nice to see them looking like new again sometimes!

 

[skate323k137]

I've got a 71' El Camino I'm working on in my garage right now haha! Thanks guys, I was pretty happy with the results too. I'm sure everybody is familiar with how bad most of these cabs look when we get them so it's nice to see them looking like new again sometimes!

Haha yep. Mine were absolutely filthy. I have them acceptably clean, but they still need a good full teardown in the future.

How many hours did you invest in this? I can't imagine it was very quick

 

[ahcmetal]

How many hours did you invest in this? I can't imagine it was very quick

I'd say about 40-50hrs probably...most of that was hand sanding all the various parts of the cab before getting it resprayed...that part was awful, probably 10-12hrs just doing that. Then about another 10hrs in cleaning it with various solvents to get all the adhesive and dried soda residue off of stuff...then cleaning the electronics and wiring...sanding/polishing up the marquee ect...yikes. Taking it apart took about 6-7hrs and about the same for putting it back together and making sure everything matched back up and worked. I'd kinda like to do a NAC next if one ever shows up in my area I think...

 

[Chempop]

I prefer the silver NNC getup, but you did such a nice job with the restore it looks amazing. Great choice with the blue and red buttons too
Enjoy that beauty!

 

[Teddy KGB]

Great work...I like the subtle changes such as the speaker upgrades too.

 

[K-2]

Seriously excellent job! I'd be damn proud of that machine; it looks amazing. Congrats!

Any "before" photos?

 

[kuze]

That looks absolutely awesome. Would be cool to see before pictures as well.

 

[Rob Black]

awesome! looks great

 

[alby13]

i'm in love

 

[loegan43]

Outstanding job. Beautiful cab, thanks for sharing.

 

[WupWuh]

Now this is how it is done! Awesome job! So clean from head to toe, those wheels and castors are even so shiny.

 

[MrRoboto19XX]

Wow, that is beautiful! Super clean all around.

 

[Pushky]

truly beautiful arcade

 

[Shinsengumi]

Awesome!!! Feeling inspired to do something with my dirty Naomi Uni's!

 

[Relaxt]

A true gem. Thanks for sharing it.