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| DHTech:
Interesting I had a similar experience when trying to buy a kit from Turnarcades, it was near impossible to get them to reply to any messages, let alone place an order, when Craig did eventually send me a reply it was full of excuses, not any way to run a professional business. On the upside I have built my cabinet from scratch to my specification and looking at taking Turnarcades on at there own game (no pun intended), my Arcade Flashback business is in the planning stages as we speak. |
| x-factor:
I couldn't manage to get kit from Turnarcades either, you had to arrange your own delivery that made it way to expensive. I ended up getting a bare cabinet from the Retropit, worked out way cheaper and it came with free delivery and was pre built. http://www.theretropit.com/product_info.php?products_id=32 Allows you to pick and choose your controls/artwork suppliers save some more cash. |
| Minwah:
--- Quote from: x-factor on June 23, 2013, 10:00:19 am ---I ended up getting a bare cabinet from the Retropit, worked out way cheaper and it came with free delivery and was pre built. http://www.theretropit.com/product_info.php?products_id=32 --- End quote --- Sorry to derail, but how is the quality of the cabinet? The Donkey Kong one caught my eye. |
| x-factor:
--- Quote from: Minwah on June 24, 2013, 06:48:48 am ---Sorry to derail, but how is the quality of the cabinet? The Donkey Kong one caught my eye. --- End quote --- I think it's great but then I don't have the skills to make my own. There's a couple of chips in the laminate around the t moulding but you'd probably only notice if your looking for problems. The cabinet is made of chipboard so all the cutouts (speakers and vents) have the chipboard showing if that bothered you it might be a pain trying to paint over it, but for me it's fine and for <£300 I don't think you can complain. The delivery man didn't have much interest in bringing it in the house so you might want a helping hand around during delivery if you need to manhandle it anywhere. It had a few nice touches like rubber matting, castors/wheels and marquee retainers which I wasn't expecting and saved me coming up with bad DIY solutions. |
| Chris John Hunter:
Agree with all the latest comments. Basically what i've done chaps. Got a bartop plan and got it CNC'd. I have half built it now. And when I have done I will have one of the flatpack's from either Retropit or ArcadeWorldUK. And get it sorted. My problem is, I can do all the computery. Software. Own front end etc. But Art, and I brought a load of Vinyl only to find you had to do a whole lot of work just to get a decent finish with it. So I will buy a black flatpack upright. Then I will get my art printed on thick scratch resistent material that I can trim with a precision knife and then trim. Or I might go sod it. Find someone in the uk who can do the vinyl / art application and bung that person a ton to do it for me. |
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