{"id":312,"date":"2009-06-11T14:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T17:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pealefamily.net\/tech\/arcade\/?p=312"},"modified":"2011-01-03T10:21:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T10:21:13","slug":"nail-biting-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Nail biting anxiety!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been biting my nails over applying the artwork on the control panel because&#8230;well, it&#8217;s an expensive learning experience if I screw it up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken way too long on preparing the control panel.  Mostly because the old paint\/CPO adhesive was such a pain to remove.  But partially because I&#8217;ve been putting it off.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to misalign it, and I didn&#8217;t want it to slowly peel off because I didn&#8217;t stick it down properly.<\/p>\n<p>Finally I figured I&#8217;d just have to &#8220;go for it&#8221; and put it on.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah has some kind of rubber roller I used to help remove air bubbles from under the overlay.  It helped some.<\/p>\n<p>I had plans on using the heat gun to help the overlay bend over the curved edges, but Riley distracted me and I held it in one spot too long, and it promptly warped.  Not terribly so, but I definitely notice it.  Argh.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-313\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/arcade\/?attachment_id=313\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-313\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\".\/wp-content\/uploads\/centicp-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Centipede control panel, just after applying the CPO.\" title=\"Centipede Control Panel\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-313\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/centicp-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/centicp.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Centipede control panel, just after applying the CPO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All in all I had to peel one corner or another about a dozen times to get the air bubbles out from underneath.  There are still a couple, but I had to finally give in and say &#8220;this is about as good as it&#8217;s going to get.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been biting my nails over applying the artwork on the control panel because&#8230;well, it&#8217;s an expensive learning experience if I screw it up. I&#8217;ve taken way too long on preparing the control panel. Mostly because the old paint\/CPO adhesive was such a pain to remove. But partially because I&#8217;ve been putting it off. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}