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Title: Qubes, restore or sell? Post by: David.Lightman on March 10, 2016, 06:22:44 pm Hey gang,
I have been the very proud owner of a Q*Bert's Qubes for about 16 years now. It's great. The real deal. It is in good shape, occasionally has sound issues as it warms up, the cabinet must have gotten wet back in the day 'cause it's swollen, but it works. It has all the appropriate conversion artwork. The cabinet is the real issue, it's pretty ugly. The swelling has made the T-Molding pop and it just not beautiful. I'd like to either build a new cabinet for it or replace it with better old one. My hesitance in doing this is availability of artwork. I would need new side art, overlays. I've put up with its ugliness because I have always told myself, hey, it's all original, (conversion-original) but original. I remember way back when, someone had scans of the artwork but there wasn't enough interest to make it worth reproducing due to the games rarity. now obviously a lot has changed in the past few years. Kinda just thinking out loud. David Title: Re: Qubes, restore or sell? Post by: Worm2 on March 10, 2016, 06:26:50 pm Pic's or it didn't happen.
But really, pics of the damaged will be required before I am willing to give a solid answer. Title: Re: Qubes, restore or sell? Post by: John's Arcade on March 10, 2016, 06:35:16 pm I agree. We need pictures!
Title: Re: Qubes, restore or sell? Post by: David.Lightman on March 11, 2016, 05:33:00 pm Sorry about the poor lighting.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/heylightman/25080034834 David. Title: Re: Qubes, restore or sell? Post by: John's Arcade on March 11, 2016, 05:46:58 pm I can't really tell what's going on with the cabinet but I'm inclined to say "leave it alone"
Title: Re: Qubes, restore or sell? Post by: P-feif on March 11, 2016, 05:54:52 pm Simple Green and a black Sharpie... :P
Title: Re: Qubes, restore or sell? Post by: David.Lightman on March 11, 2016, 08:24:10 pm more pics uploaded
https://flickr.com/photos/73579786@N04/sets/72157665603860852 David Title: Re: Post by: darkcat1 on March 12, 2016, 05:57:20 pm Looks OK but if you are really worried about the water damage you could just try glue and clamps. Also I can't really tell from the pictures but it looks like it's just one side(could be replaced if you have to)
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk Title: Re: Qubes, restore or sell? Post by: David.Lightman on March 12, 2016, 10:47:04 pm it's mostly cosmetic. the swelling of the sides keeps the tmolding from seating. I would look at restoring it if the artwork was available.
David. Title: Re: Post by: darkcat1 on March 19, 2016, 04:23:06 pm Well like I suggested you could use glue and clamps in the t-molding Grove to try to fix it without damaging the existing art
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