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RetroBlast Video Review: SlikStik Arcade Cabinet

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KevSteele:
ashardin,

The price does not include the control panel, and shipping is $145. (Sorry I missed your question earlier!)

Kevin

TalkingOctopus:
Did that marquee come with the cabinet?

KevSteele:
Heh...the marquee you see is something I just cranked out of my inkjet printer to "fill in the gap" until I get a real marquee. Three sheets of inkjet photo paper and some graphics.

The SlikStik cab is supposed to come with a marquee, but the marquee wasn't ready when they shipped me the cab. I'm planning on getting my own custom design printed up, so no biggie.

Kevin

MaximRecoil:
Those reviews are great, I watched all of them. Nice written reviews also. The Sony car speakers in the SlikStik cab; are those the ones that you hooked up to the PC speaker set amp? How is that working out?

BTW, while reading your spinner review you mentioned concerns about the aluminum (as opposed to steel) contruction of the mounting bracket on the SlikStik Tornado. From the photos that bracket appears to be 1/8" thick. I would be surprised if you ever bent it. It is true that steel is stiffer than aluminum (stronger too, aluminum has a modulus of 10-11 and a yield point of 11-59 while steel has a modulus of 30 and a yeild point of 46-162), but the thickness of the material makes a big difference.

What is more important here is the strength (since flex really isn't the issue so much as whether or not it will get permantly bent).  Steel is considered to be twice as strong as aluminum on average so a 1/8" piece of aluminum will have roughly the same strength as a 1/16" piece of steel and still be lighter and nearly as stiff (strength = yeild point = how much force is required to make it flex to a point that it can't return back to its original shape = bent).

1/8" aluminum for such a small mounting area (2"x2") on that spinner (very little leverage potential to multiply force) actually seems over-built to me.

KevSteele:
Maxim,

The Sony speakers are the ones I was having the "problem" with (if you can call accidentally pushing the mute button a problem! :-[) They're working fine now, and because the cone on the speakers is translucent red plastic, they glow from the marquee light behind them, a very cool and unexpected bonus.

As for the Tornado spinner bracket being made of aluminum, the "flex" was the reason I was concerned about the use of aluminum. If the bracket flexes, you can potentially get the bearings out of alignment. It hasn't happened to me, but it was a design concern of mine.

Kevin

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