Coleco Pac Man - Control Panel label - Cutting out the holes

StephenJ

Greetings,
I'm in the process of refurbishing a Coleco Pac Man (first time for me).
Things are going pretty good...largely thanks to slydc's labels.
I'm now faced with cutting out the joystick and on/off switch holes of the new control panel label and I'm not sure how to proceed.
Any ideas on the best way to do this?

Thanks,
StephenJ

blanka · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:47 am Post subject:

The best would be to have the stickers cut at a sticker printing service. If you have a PDF or AI file, you can layer the image and a cutting mask in one file, and then they use a cutting-plotter to make the CPO sticker perfect.
If you do it manually, try to find a thin sheet of plastic where you can print on/ sticker on. The original overlays are quite thick, and if you make your own similar in thickness, you could use a metal punch tool to make perfect holes. You need to go to a metal workshop for that.

StephenJ · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:11 am Post subject:

Thanks blanka for the information.

StephenJ