Refurbishing an Ugly 7800 - Need Aluminum Console and COntroller replacemen

[zincmann]

Hi, a growing collector of classic and modern consoles. I currently have:

 

Xbox 360

Xbox Halo 2 Edition

Playstation 2

Playstation

Atari 2600

Sega Saturn

Nintendo 64

Sega Genesis 1 & 2

Colecovision

Nintendo 8 Bit

 

And recently bought this ugly (dirty and needed some servicing) Atari 7800 which I got on Ebay and picked up locally. I have taken the whole console apart for cleaning and repaired a frayed controller wire on one and it looks pretty good now. My problem is the decals or the Aluminum stripe on the console and the controllers is in bad shape, wondering if someone knows where I can get some replacement peices or has an old console with controllers that would spare the appliques because as part of the refurb I want to make the console look as good as can be. It was REAL dirty when I got it, dirt in every crevass that could be found, but its looking much better. Have taken buttons apart and cleaned the insides which were very dirty.

[Brian R.]

Hi, a growing collector of classic and modern consoles. I currently have:

 

Xbox 360

Xbox Halo 2 Edition

Playstation 2

Playstation

Atari 2600

Sega Saturn

Nintendo 64

Sega Genesis 1 & 2

Colecovision

Nintendo 8 Bit

 

And recently bought this ugly (dirty and needed some servicing) Atari 7800 which I got on Ebay and picked up locally. I have taken the whole console apart for cleaning and repaired a frayed controller wire on one and it looks pretty good now. My problem is the decals or the Aluminum stripe on the console and the controllers is in bad shape, wondering if someone knows where I can get some replacement peices or has an old console with controllers that would spare the appliques because as part of the refurb I want to make the console look as good as can be. It was REAL dirty when I got it, dirt in every crevass that could be found, but its looking much better. Have taken buttons apart and cleaned the insides which were very dirty.

 

Check out www.best-electronics-ca.com.

 

The guy there, Brad, probably has the parts you want.

[zincmann]

Hi, a growing collector of classic and modern consoles. I currently have:

 

Xbox 360

Xbox Halo 2 Edition

Playstation 2

Playstation

Atari 2600

Sega Saturn

Nintendo 64

Sega Genesis 1 & 2

Colecovision

Nintendo 8 Bit

 

And recently bought this ugly (dirty and needed some servicing) Atari 7800 which I got on Ebay and picked up locally. I have taken the whole console apart for cleaning and repaired a frayed controller wire on one and it looks pretty good now. My problem is the decals or the Aluminum stripe on the console and the controllers is in bad shape, wondering if someone knows where I can get some replacement peices or has an old console with controllers that would spare the appliques because as part of the refurb I want to make the console look as good as can be. It was REAL dirty when I got it, dirt in every crevass that could be found, but its looking much better. Have taken buttons apart and cleaned the insides which were very dirty.

 

Check out www.best-electronics-ca.com.

 

The guy there, Brad, probably has the parts you want.

 

Thanks I will check it out!! Appreciate your help!!

[zincmann]

Hi, a growing collector of classic and modern consoles. I currently have:

 

Xbox 360

Xbox Halo 2 Edition

Playstation 2

Playstation

Atari 2600

Sega Saturn

Nintendo 64

Sega Genesis 1 & 2

Colecovision

Nintendo 8 Bit

 

And recently bought this ugly (dirty and needed some servicing) Atari 7800 which I got on Ebay and picked up locally. I have taken the whole console apart for cleaning and repaired a frayed controller wire on one and it looks pretty good now. My problem is the decals or the Aluminum stripe on the console and the controllers is in bad shape, wondering if someone knows where I can get some replacement peices or has an old console with controllers that would spare the appliques because as part of the refurb I want to make the console look as good as can be. It was REAL dirty when I got it, dirt in every crevass that could be found, but its looking much better. Have taken buttons apart and cleaned the insides which were very dirty.

 

Check out www.best-electronics-ca.com.

 

The guy there, Brad, probably has the parts you want.

 

Thanks I will check it out!! Appreciate your help!!

 

Actually they dont seem to have really any 7800 Replacement parts so I will pose the question again out to the community, I am even willing to pay for these used parts if they are in satisfactory condition, or I might end up trying to use a polising cleaning tool on my dremel to try to buff it up. I believe the aluminum peice is actually real aluminum correct? I might be able to use an aluminum cleaner on it. I will post a seperate post for that question!

[+Mitch]

You have to email them, they don't list all of their parts on the web.

 

Mitch

[Brian R.]

You have to email them, they don't list all of their parts on the web.

 

Mitch

 

Yup. Call or email Brad and he'll help you out.