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Any interest in used 25" arcade monitors? (OH)
mediaase:
Garvv, I live in KY too...you know anywhere around here (lexington) that would have a decent deal on a gutted cabinet? I tried KY Game Exchange today, but all they had was fully working games. I don't need the PCB and all that stuff....just a good cab. I REALLY like the TMNT design the best. I don't like my nose right up against the glass on those fully upright models ;D
Garvv:
I bought my cab from KY Game Exchange, luckily they had an all black dynamo jamma cab in great shape, but the tekken 2 board in it was flaky (the game would start acting wierd after a half hour or so of play), so I got a decent deal on it.
Maybe hit an auction in ohio? If you're not gonna make your own cab, I'd recommend buying a working cab that's in good condition (with no sideart or anything else you have to strip/redo). If you look at some of the cost breakdowns people have on the web, they spent more money restoring a cruddy cab than they would have buying a nice one to start with. The redone cruddy cabs that do actually wind up looking nice seem to have required almost as much effort, tools, and workspace as cabs built from scratch.
What price range are you looking in?
mediaase:
So you already built you a MAME Machine? Do you live around Lex? I talked to someone who was going to an auction this past weekend and called me from there and said they had a TMNT cab with no monitor and no back, but otherwise good condition. It ended up going for $160 :( I told him not to get it if it went over 100...stupid me, but without seeing it I had no clue how much it was worth :-/
I think I might hit a few auctions up in the next couple months to see what I find. I'm just going to have to figure out a way to haul the cab I buy back to Lexington cause I don't think my hatchback will cut it hahahaha ;D