For a couple of years now, I’ve been leaving the keys for our games in the coin doors. Its worked OK for the most part. One night we had some kids over, and an old key that was already pretty bent wound up in 2 pieces by the end of the night.

I decided it would be good to get those keys out of the coin doors. What better place to put them then inside another coin door?

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It holds 48 sets of keys. As you can see, I haven’t loaded many keys into it yet.  I bought some clear mini photo key chains to stick flyer pics in like a lot of folks have been doing lately. I’ll use those for any games that I don’t already have a related keychain for.

I bought the key safe for this at Home Depot. It was right in their tool section near the machine they use to cut keys. I think it was $24.95. The outside was the same color as the inside. I hit it with some black Rustoleum, and decided it would be cool to make it look like a coin door.

I hacked up the coin entry/return bezels and coin return buttons from a spare coin door using my dremel so they would fit on the outside of the cabinet. It was a bit more difficult than I thought it would be. Unfortunately, the coin entry bezels I had were metal and not nearly as easy to cut as they would be if they were the plastic kind.

This pic shows what one of the coin entry bezels looked like after I cut it in 2:
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A coin return button after it was cut (but not yet separated):
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Finished coin thingies laying nice and flat:
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Here are a couple more pics showing it in relation to its surroundings:

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I’ve been having a lot of fun lately modifying and making things for our arcade. I may draft the wife to help make some more toppers in the future.