What is a  lot of water damage?
I bought a cab that was , but still salvageable, do you have pics?

Don't use only black paint, but also use carbon wraps, rgb leds,   and u should remove the original control panel and exchange it with 2 joysticks,  8 buttons per player and 2 trackballs.

I did the same with my Irobot,  tapper, paperboy, donkey kong and zoo keeper. It looks fantastic if I may say so, but strangely my friends don't talk to me anymore.

Oh man, that zacaria dodgem cab is seriously cool.

I found one for sale in germany, but way to expensive for my taste http://www.ebay.de/itm/271983506372

Depends were u live, im sure the people in Australia have different feelings 

I live in southern Spain, an temperatures usually dont drop below 16c/60f in the winter, so I do not really care about winter. But yeah, if you live like near the canadian border, where you have that white stuff falling out of the sky , brrrr, 

Awesome, looks great :thumbs up icon is missing:

I wish I could find something similar here in europe

I can buy a nib class of 81. Not cheap of course ($1400), but is it worth it? I like galaga and ms pac, but my defender would have to go, due to space issues. And yeah, I've seen johns vid

Think it is pretty cool to have a nib, (nice unboxing video ;))

Watching Johns channel for like 2 years, I thought it was time to sign up to the forum 

I live at the moment in Spain (I'm Dutch), and here are nearly no classic arcades. You can find some generic jamma cabs. My dad was an operator from the 70s untill the early 90s. So I remember all the old classic machines in our wharehouse. Currently I have a Defender, A cueball wizard pinball, a small virtual pinball and a non working donkey kong cab. Wich has to work the end of the year

I hope to get some answers I have about the DK board , but also love just chatting about arcade games.