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cab for restoration question
« on: October 29, 2012, 01:04:02 am »
so i been searchin laundry mats for old cabs. and came across a mk3 cab that was converted into a lightgun game. from the looks of it only one spot on the cab is showin any dmg. with a workin monitor what would you pay for it to restore the cab and mame it.
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2012, 02:52:50 pm »
Trying to buy games off location is LITERALLY just about the worst possible way to try to purchase a machine. They aren't for sale, the operators are using them to try to make money and they likely have a current tax stamp paid for that could be good for up to a whole year and the operator likely has a contract with the location owner and would just have to find another machine to put in to replace that one. It is literally like trying to buy the soda machine sitting in the lobby of an office building.

If you can buy that thing the operator will want way more for it than you can buy a decent Mortal Kombat 3 machine.

Craigslist, craigslist, craigslist, craigslist. In the last six months my friend and I have bought over 50 machines off craigslist.

I have gone through hundreds of machines since I started dealing with games in 2001. Never purchased a single machine off location, never purchased a single thing by going to check out an operator's warehouse. They are absolutely the worst possible guys to deal with unless you actually happen to catch them while they are going out of business, and even then most of them just send the stuff off to an auction. I only buy from operators if they happen to list a good deal on craigslist or ebay or if I happen to have a title they want for a customer and they make me a decent trade for it. Even then that accounts for maybe 3 percent of what I have had through my hands.

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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2012, 03:39:25 am »
your craigslist area must be alot better than mine cause i have hadly seen any machines worth it on there. and all the places that sell em want to much and so do most people. the guy who owns the laundry location also owns all the machines from what im told. they think he bought em all at auction. course he hasnt called me back so it might be hes not interested in selling. tho i been told he just lost the guy who was fixing the machines and he has one that they said was fixed several times and it always breaks again. i know back before you could buy machines from locations that had bought the machine and not making any money off them any more for 50 all the time but now business no longer put them in.
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2012, 05:09:36 pm »
You have to check multiple times a day, not just once a week. Good stuff pops up all the time, is sold in an hour or two and then the ad is removed just as fast. The best deals happen on weekdays during the day, or stuff posted early evening on a weekday IF you are quick. Hard to get the good deals on the weekend as everyone is off work and someone else is usually faster.

I used to think machines were hard to find too. They aren't, once you figure it out then your whole basement will fill up in the blink of an eye.

I know some of the old FAQ documents talk about buying machines off locations. However those documents are way, way, way out of date, and they make it sound way more promising than it really is. A lot of that stuff was written back in the early 90s when there were still classics on locations and most operators still had way more working games left over from the classic era than they had locations to put them in. Back then if you saw a Dig Dug out on location and got ahold of the operator then you might indeed easily buy it and he would just pull another one out of his warehouse. Those guys are all dead, retired or out of business today.

How it really works is like this.

The machine is on location. If it is something that would interest collectors then the owner or operator will get inquiries about buying it from time to time. Perhaps people will leave phone numbers. But the machine isn't for sale. So the machine owner doesn't actually hold on to the phone numbers or anything. When he finally does decide to get rid of it then it will be all of a sudden and it won't be because you asked if it was for sale. It will likely be wheeled out of there and gone and never actually get a for sale sign on it. If the laundrymat owner actually owns it (the majority of the time the laundrymat owner doesn't own the games) then it will probably just get traded off to one of his vending contacts for a change machine or a repair to something.

Also, trying to buy something that isn't for sale makes it nearly impossible to get a good deal.

I am not saying it is impossible to buy a machine off location. I am just saying that all my experience and the experience of most of the other collectors I have talked to has taught me that it is about the least successful way to get machines. Operator warehouses are nearly as tough too, as there aren't any good deals in the warehouses of active operators (OK deals sometimes, but not good). While the true dead classic warehouses basically require you to spend thousands of dollars at once and pick up dozens of machines at the drop of a hat (somebody looking to buy one thing would never hear about it or even make it in the door). Whenever an actual retired classic warehouse starts selling their stuff for good price (usually because the original hoarder/operator is dead or in poor health) then it will be picked clean in short order. The first guy in will cherry pick everything he wants, then he will tell a buddy about it, who will do the same thing. By the time you or me finds out about it there is nothing left but junk. Closest I ever got to being the first guy was knowing a guy who was in good enough with everyone that he was often the second or third guy. Even then I didn't get to be the fourth guy, he would instead sometimes call me from the place and grab one thing for me at a decent price. Even then that only happened when he didn't find enough stuff there that he wanted personally (which meant vector games and williams games).

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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2012, 07:58:34 pm »
If you've got ios or android, get one of the several craigslist notifier apps.  Set up your searches for your items of interest.  That's how I picked up a Tommy pinball machine for $800.

It doesn't mean that there will be more or better CL offerings, but you won't miss anything. 

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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2012, 01:46:22 pm »
i hunted high and low for arcade machines, to mame.  I ended up finding 2 one capcom bowling that i paid 50$ for (which i think only has a cap problem)  and a gutted nba jam, i found during junk week.   

although im taking my sweet time on the project, im starting to think it would have been better starting from scratch and building something from MDF the way i wanted it rather then try to clean up this old machine. 

Just my 2 cents for what its worth.

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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2012, 03:49:53 pm »
Scratchbuild costs go through the roof because of all the metal and glass bits you have to buy that would have been free with the existing cabinet.

i hunted high and low for arcade machines, to mame.  I ended up finding 2 one capcom bowling that i paid 50$ for (which i think only has a cap problem)  and a gutted nba jam, i found during junk week.   

although im taking my sweet time on the project, im starting to think it would have been better starting from scratch and building something from MDF the way i wanted it rather then try to clean up this old machine. 

Just my 2 cents for what its worth.
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2012, 12:27:33 pm »
Scratchbuild costs go through the roof because of all the metal and glass bits you have to buy that would have been free with the existing cabinet.

the gutted NBA jam i got has none of those metal and glass bits.  So im no better off, but i can see your point.

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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2012, 10:39:40 pm »
    Searching laundry mats in search of a cab?.... Jennifer is quite impressed, This to me shows innovation, Buying a machine off route is
not necessarily a sure way to get the shaft. These games are tired, the ops know it, And rather than have to bust them up and dispose
of the monitors Would rather make a few bucks and give it a good home. I buy game off route all the time. Some are quite nasty,
steering wheels ripped out, cash boxes busted out, I got one in back that was peed in. Some are nice but tired. And some have been
under a tarp for 30yrs... Make a deal you feel comfortable with.

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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2012, 10:56:27 pm »
Are you misunderstanding what we are talking about here?

You seem to be talking about buying old used games in general and the original poster is talking about trying to buy the machines that are actively set up to accept quarters in his local laundrymat and you are referring to broken, peed in machines with the steering wheels ripped out and cash box kicked in. In no way are those the same thing.

Today the monitors are usually the single most valuable part of the machine since they stopped making them.

Trying to buy games by finding places operating them and trying to buy them is about like trying to buy a car by driving down the street until you see one you want and knocking on the door and trying to buy it.

    Searching laundry mats in search of a cab?.... Jennifer is quite impressed, This to me shows innovation, Buying a machine off route is
not necessarily a sure way to get the shaft. These games are tired, the ops know it, And rather than have to bust them up and dispose
of the monitors Would rather make a few bucks and give it a good home. I buy game off route all the time. Some are quite nasty,
steering wheels ripped out, cash boxes busted out, I got one in back that was peed in. Some are nice but tired. And some have been
under a tarp for 30yrs... Make a deal you feel comfortable with.
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2012, 11:12:26 pm »
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2012, 12:08:38 am »
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2012, 08:19:32 am »
  Jen understands all too well, Its called vandalism...It works like this, a game in the real world of laundry mats and arcades, the kids
rip the steering wheels off, take the guns, quarters, carve "I love Jennifer" in the side of them, and on occasion pee in the cash box. A bargan to be sure.
   It was a working game up until this point, But that's most likely not his only game, you wont know till you search him out and ask him.
I'm so glad Craigslist has worked for you, Really. But Let it be noted I have never been on this list, Yet still manage to find games regularly
with my old, outdated methods, not just trashed ones either, but some very interesting finds... Is got a lot to do with attitude, walk in
all arrogant and cocky, Yes probably not going to go so well... Now lets talk "valuable monitors". Are these the burned up ones that
have outlived their life expectancy? ...If so Im rich, Wheres this craigslist?

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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2012, 12:34:55 pm »
Are you hitting enter each time your text gets the same width as the text box? Why are all your posts like that? That isn't how computers work, it will wrap the text for you automatically. It isn't the same as a typewriter. Also are you doing a cross gender roleplaying thing here? I ask because honestly, in 12 years of game collecting I have never encountered a big time female collector or really even a female collector who was into the tech area of the hobby at all. It is just about the most male dominated hobby in the world. It only put a flag up for me because in other posts you mentioned having thousands of boards and you seen to have quite a lot of tech knowledge as well, although some of it seems dated.

Operators were great sources for games in the 90s, probably the best back then.

By the late 90s most operators weren't really sitting on classic cabinets anymore. At that point the classified ads became the best source. Around the same time RGVAC became a pretty good source and remained one until the mid 2000s, the klov.com messageboards also became a good source as soon as they came on the scene and remain so to this day. Arcade game auctions have also always been great, however their frequency and the amount of classic era gear available at them has really gone down over the years.

About 2003 ebay became a great source for machines and remained so until they changed their listing format to favor stores where items sat continually with unrealistic prices on them. I can't recall when exactly this happened, maybe 2007?

Craigslist came on the scene as a great game source about the time it became mainstream, maybe around 2005. They replaced classified ads as a game source almost completely.

Today their are so few operators left that they just really aren't that great a source anymore. Particularly when trying to purchase one of the few things still out their earning them a profit. Sure they might have more back at the shop, but they will probably ask double (or triple) what you could get the same machine at for auction for. Very few of the still in business ones are sitting on massive stashes of golden age parts anymore (the ones that are tend to have unrealistic pricing, which is why they still have the stuff). There are guys sitting on full warehouses full of classics, but they are more game dealers than operators and they know what everything is worth and their prices include expenses that Joe Dude doesn't have to factor in to his prices.

The monitor shortage has been a slowly building thing over the last few years since the last remaining stock of 19" and 25" crt monitors has dried up. For lesser titles the monitor is often as valuable as the whole game, although craigslist isn't really the best place to sell monitors. I bought a truckload of "burned up ones that have outlived their life expectancy", around 17 of them IIRC for $50 back in July from a guy trying to open his own arcade (all MAME with PC monitors in them, not kidding, he mamed every machine other than the big simulators). I spent another $75 on a bunch of caps and parts to repair them. Ended up salvaging 10 of them so far, with 2 I haven't touched yet. Been getting $100 each for them on an exchange basis (trade in your wonky one for a good one), although I do it cheaper if I know you.

  Jen understands all too well, Its called vandalism...It works like this, a game in the real world of laundry mats and arcades, the kids
rip the steering wheels off, take the guns, quarters, carve "I love Jennifer" in the side of them, and on occasion pee in the cash box. A bargan to be sure.
   It was a working game up until this point, But that's most likely not his only game, you wont know till you search him out and ask him.
I'm so glad Craigslist has worked for you, Really. But Let it be noted I have never been on this list, Yet still manage to find games regularly
with my old, outdated methods, not just trashed ones either, but some very interesting finds... Is got a lot to do with attitude, walk in
all arrogant and cocky, Yes probably not going to go so well... Now lets talk "valuable monitors". Are these the burned up ones that
have outlived their life expectancy? ...If so Im rich, Wheres this craigslist?
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2012, 12:56:20 pm »
    Girls have a right to collect games and boards just as much as men...In your case little boys...Just because you have never
met a chic with games is not my problem, dated or not...Go play with your craigslist pig.

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« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2012, 05:40:32 pm »
Again, internet posts are not formatted like you are using a typewriter. You don't start with tab and you don't hit enter when you get to the edge of the text box. The computer handles that for you. Not everyone's screen is the same width and when you end the lines early it makes your posts look wrong on everyone's who has a different width screen than you.

I never said women have no right to play with games or game boards. I never said I never met a woman who owned games. I inquired because it is extremely rare for a woman to have a high level of involvement with the hobby at the technical level, so rare in fact that it was rare enough to make me wonder. You may not realize this but there are large numbers of men who take some sort of pleasure out of going online and creating female personas on messageboards. These sock puppet accounts usually come with a cartoon girl avatar and a quirky posting style (such as typing like you are using a typewriter and referring to yourself in the third person). In fact on most messageboards relating to male dominated hobbies they outnumber the real women by a fair margin.

    Girls have a right to collect games and boards just as much as men...In your case little boys...Just because you have never
met a chic with games is not my problem, dated or not...Go play with your craigslist pig.
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« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2012, 05:46:58 pm »
You may not realize this but there are large numbers of men who take some sort of pleasure out of going online and creating female personas on messageboards. In fact on most messageboards relating to male dominated hobbies they outnumber the real women by a fair margin. These sock puppet accounts usually come with a cartoon girl avatar and a quirky posting style.

Sounds like someone has had a bad experience... or several. :duckhunt

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« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2012, 05:53:01 pm »
I have been a moderator on several different boards over the years and have seen exactly how many of the female posters magically posted from the same IP addresses as another account. They tend to have a few things in common, girly cartoon avatars, exaggerated personalities, quirky typing styles, female first name as username and carefully avoiding being in any pictures are the most common.  Obsessive compulsive levels of knowledge about the subject matter and claims to be a lipstick lesbian are also common, but Jennifer doesn't seem to exhibit those.

Anyway, I did not mean for this to devolve into some sort of insult, Jennifer thread. I just had to ask, and really, I don't care.

You may not realize this but there are large numbers of men who take some sort of pleasure out of going online and creating female personas on messageboards. In fact on most messageboards relating to male dominated hobbies they outnumber the real women by a fair margin. These sock puppet accounts usually come with a cartoon girl avatar and a quirky posting style.

Sounds like someone has had a bad experience... or several. :duckhunt
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« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2012, 06:10:30 pm »
      I dont have to justify my station in life to you, Or my typing style, (Enter). But again your Oh so very smart, Ever stop to (enter)
think maybe more than one person was using The same Ip...(enter) Sharing a computer? OMG that never happens...
      What Jennifer thinks is that you are (enter) insecure with your own manhood and wish you were a little girl...Giggle. (enter).

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« Reply #19 on: November 21, 2012, 06:14:44 pm »
Hee hee. Have fun tinkerbell!  ;D

No hard feelings, I didn't really want this to go this far.

      I dont have to justify my station in life to you, Or my typing style, (Enter). But again your Oh so very smart, Ever stop to (enter)
think maybe more than one person was using The same Ip...(enter) Sharing a computer? OMG that never happens...
      What Jennifer thinks is that you are (enter) insecure with your own manhood and wish you were a little girl...Giggle. (enter).
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« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2012, 06:45:44 pm »
I can for the life of me figger out how you concluded I was hitting enter like a old Smith-Corona,( You never cease to amaze) Is this any better? There is no bad feelings, In fact I may even look into this Craigslist, and jump into the 21st century. Have a happy thanksgiving!

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« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2012, 07:45:22 pm »
Yes, Jennifer that looks great.

I could tell you were formatting typewriter style because your posts were only half the width of everyone elses.

I can for the life of me figger out how you concluded I was hitting enter like a old Smith-Corona,( You never cease to amaze) Is this any better? There is no bad feelings, In fact I may even look into this Craigslist, and jump into the 21st century. Have a happy thanksgiving!
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« Reply #22 on: November 24, 2012, 12:08:50 pm »

Trying to buy games by finding places operating them and trying to buy them is about like trying to buy a car by driving down the street until you see one you want and knocking on the door and trying to buy it.

funniest thing bout that comparison is there is an entire show based on just that. spotting cars and knocking on the door to buy them. seen the guy buy a car for 13k flip it and sell for 80k
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« Reply #23 on: November 24, 2012, 08:36:53 pm »

Trying to buy games by finding places operating them and trying to buy them is about like trying to buy a car by driving down the street until you see one you want and knocking on the door and trying to buy it.

funniest thing bout that comparison is there is an entire show based on just that. spotting cars and knocking on the door to buy them. seen the guy buy a car for 13k flip it and sell for 80k

It's worked for my father for classic trucks for many years. That's how it was done back in the day.

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« Reply #24 on: November 26, 2012, 01:09:05 pm »

Trying to buy games by finding places operating them and trying to buy them is about like trying to buy a car by driving down the street until you see one you want and knocking on the door and trying to buy it.

funniest thing bout that comparison is there is an entire show based on just that. spotting cars and knocking on the door to buy them. seen the guy buy a car for 13k flip it and sell for 80k

Ahem... Counting Cars is staged.

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« Reply #25 on: November 26, 2012, 01:11:24 pm »
I have been a moderator on several different boards over the years and have seen exactly how many of the female posters magically posted from the same IP addresses as another account. They tend to have a few things in common, girly cartoon avatars, exaggerated personalities, quirky typing styles, female first name as username and carefully avoiding being in any pictures are the most common.  Obsessive compulsive levels of knowledge about the subject matter and claims to be a lipstick lesbian are also common, but Jennifer doesn't seem to exhibit those.

Anyway, I did not mean for this to devolve into some sort of insult, Jennifer thread. I just had to ask, and really, I don't care.

You may not realize this but there are large numbers of men who take some sort of pleasure out of going online and creating female personas on messageboards. In fact on most messageboards relating to male dominated hobbies they outnumber the real women by a fair margin. These sock puppet accounts usually come with a cartoon girl avatar and a quirky posting style.

Sounds like someone has had a bad experience... or several. :duckhunt

I had to laugh that a dude named Paige is outing a guy pretending to be a girl.  Nothing personal either way, it just made me giggle.  :)

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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #26 on: November 28, 2012, 12:38:23 pm »
true it may be staged but just like most shows you can still do it. like storage wars. i worked for a guy who owned a shop and did exactly as they did years before that show. have also been with people who have seen a car sitting outside someone house and asked bout it, then bought it. tho most time it just some beat up car sitting in the yard still the concept is sound.
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #27 on: November 28, 2012, 03:09:56 pm »
It's crazy if you're not finding anything on craigslist.  Here (ky), I can find a machine any hour of the day for around $150 or less.  There's several on the Lexington craigslist right now , including a TRON!

BTW: if you're anywhere near 42539 I'll give you a Super Chase HQ or Rampage cabinet. 
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #28 on: November 28, 2012, 06:14:13 pm »
Right, my name actually is Paige and I get asked about it on the internet all the time. Paige was a very rare unisex name back in the 1977 when I was born (however even then, like "Kelly" or "Tracy" it was about 90 percent female). It has surged incredibly in popularity as a female name since I was born and the male usage seems to have vanished altogether. Every other man named Paige I ever met or heard of was over 60.


I have been a moderator on several different boards over the years and have seen exactly how many of the female posters magically posted from the same IP addresses as another account. They tend to have a few things in common, girly cartoon avatars, exaggerated personalities, quirky typing styles, female first name as username and carefully avoiding being in any pictures are the most common.  Obsessive compulsive levels of knowledge about the subject matter and claims to be a lipstick lesbian are also common, but Jennifer doesn't seem to exhibit those.

Anyway, I did not mean for this to devolve into some sort of insult, Jennifer thread. I just had to ask, and really, I don't care.

You may not realize this but there are large numbers of men who take some sort of pleasure out of going online and creating female personas on messageboards. In fact on most messageboards relating to male dominated hobbies they outnumber the real women by a fair margin. These sock puppet accounts usually come with a cartoon girl avatar and a quirky posting style.

Sounds like someone has had a bad experience... or several. :duckhunt

I had to laugh that a dude named Paige is outing a guy pretending to be a girl.  Nothing personal either way, it just made me giggle.  :)
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #29 on: November 29, 2012, 04:45:53 pm »
Right, my name actually is Paige and I get asked about it on the internet all the time. Paige was a very rare unisex name back in the 1977 when I was born (however even then, like "Kelly" or "Tracy" it was about 90 percent female). It has surged incredibly in popularity as a female name since I was born and the male usage seems to have vanished altogether. Every other man named Paige I ever met or heard of was over 60.

I get it... and it's a perfectly acceptable name.  Not as common as Kelly or Tracy, but not a thing wrong with it.  Just in context of the thread, it stuck out as ironic, that's all.  Hope we're cool.

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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #30 on: December 01, 2012, 02:13:02 pm »
It's crazy if you're not finding anything on craigslist.  Here (ky), I can find a machine any hour of the day for around $150 or less.  There's several on the Lexington craigslist right now , including a TRON!

BTW: if you're anywhere near 42539 I'll give you a Super Chase HQ or Rampage cabinet.
im in nc and there is never anything worth it for 150. seems everyone around here doesnt understand that most of them aint worth what they want. i dont see a mk2 worth 5-600 specially when its not in a dedicated cab.
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #31 on: December 03, 2012, 05:56:12 am »
20 minutes of searching on the North Carolina Craiglist revealed this very MAMEable cab for $25



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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #32 on: December 15, 2012, 03:03:56 am »
So it seems my way of searching wasnt crazy after all. I have found a guy who owns several laundrymats in town and he is gonna give me a cabinet. he also has more he will be interested in selling. they have of course been in laundry mats so the cab is not in the best shape but games work and monitors do too. so ill see what he has and make a list and condition for people if there is any interest.
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #33 on: December 15, 2012, 01:25:09 pm »
Well glad you scored one. In the 6 weeks since you originally posted your topic I picked up a Demo Derby 4 player cocktail, a Space Firebird cocktail, a Namco Exceleena 29" Candy, 4 19" monitors, a Defender control panel, a Joust control panel, a Golden Axe PCB and a Ms. Pac upright. All were smokin' deals and none of them involved me chasing down laundrymat owners or game operators. Not trying to be insulting, it is just that method is not a high yield method, the success rate will never be all that good.

Oddly enough, also picked up 6 games from a former laundymat with a friend of mine a few weeks ago, and they had put old 70s style dryer timer coin mechs on half the machines. These were from a craigslist ad though, we had no idea they were former laundrymat games until we were halfway loaded (the laundrymat itself had closed up in the early 90s). It ended up being a real turd of a pickup. The machines were in horrible shape and the Omega race that drew us out there in the first place turned out to have been converted to run a nes, but then half gutted afterwards (as was the dedicated Rockola cabinet), the Zaxxon was missing the marquee, Red Alert turned out to be a Hong Kong bootleg and everything had varying levels of water damage down low. I was glad I didn't take a chunk of that deal.

What did you end up getting anyway?

So it seems my way of searching wasnt crazy after all. I have found a guy who owns several laundrymats in town and he is gonna give me a cabinet. he also has more he will be interested in selling. they have of course been in laundry mats so the cab is not in the best shape but games work and monitors do too. so ill see what he has and make a list and condition for people if there is any interest.
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #34 on: December 15, 2012, 11:33:20 pm »
     Jennifer just smiles...Good for you! :applaud:

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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #35 on: January 03, 2013, 11:23:38 am »
havnt gotten anything as of yet. but it wont be a one and done type of deal i was speaking with the guy last night and he was talking bout 4 playchoice cabs with the dual monitors. i think he is talking bout the nes red tent cabs. with the holidays havnt had time to get anything sorted yet. but also all the arcade stuff has had to take a back burner to all my other needs and wants. checking laundry mats was just something to do as i was out and about. im sure if i had the spare money i could make good pick up since every other month there is a big auction an hour half away from me. and not to mention the ones i see on craigslist. i came across what i had been looking for as well last night an umk3 setup for play. tho it made me sad the monitor was in desperate need of a tweaking. still was fun to play.
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #36 on: January 03, 2013, 11:42:48 am »
Beware of red tents with bad or missing monitors, they use a unique monitor (an 18") that is literally in nothing else.
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #37 on: January 03, 2013, 12:23:09 pm »
i saw in another thread you said you had the monitor portion of a showcase. is that just the top half of the monitor or the bottom half of it as well.
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #38 on: January 03, 2013, 12:51:50 pm »
i saw in another thread you said you had the monitor portion of a showcase. is that just the top half of the monitor or the bottom half of it as well.

Bottom half as well. It would just need a control panel portion built and either a new chassis or a replacement monitor. I don't have the space for it myself.
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #39 on: January 04, 2013, 12:03:41 am »
Beware of red tents with bad or missing monitors, they use a unique monitor (an 18") that is literally in nothing else.

How would a 17" PC CRT do in one of those?  I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to adapt one to fit on the mounting bracket, and you'd maybe need to make a custom bezel. 

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« Reply #40 on: January 04, 2013, 09:54:06 am »
a 19" PC crt might actually be closer in size. Arcade monitors normally have the correct viewable size advertised like TV sets did, while CRT PC monitors always inflated the size by including non-viewable area.

Bigger issue there is that most PC monitors have huge neckboards compared to arcade monitors, there could be clearance issues there.

Beware of red tents with bad or missing monitors, they use a unique monitor (an 18") that is literally in nothing else.

How would a 17" PC CRT do in one of those?  I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to adapt one to fit on the mounting bracket, and you'd maybe need to make a custom bezel.
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #41 on: January 04, 2013, 10:12:32 am »
i got a replacement monitor for it i would just need the stand. your not related to any hagers or ortman in MO are ya. wonder what shipping on that would be
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« Reply #42 on: January 04, 2013, 12:44:35 pm »
The shipping would be way more than it is worth. It probably weighs more than 400 pounds.  No relation to the mentioned people.

i got a replacement monitor for it i would just need the stand. your not related to any hagers or ortman in MO are ya. wonder what shipping on that would be
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Re: cab for restoration question
« Reply #43 on: January 07, 2013, 04:23:17 pm »
oh well it was worth a shot.
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