Sad day

[einarsen]

This is really just a place to share my pain with folks who will understand.

A colleague at work has a father who used to maintain arcade equipment. When he found out I was converting an abandoned 1981 Taito cabinet to MAME he Chechens with his dad about parts.

Well, the sister had them in her basement and had put the arcade monitors (there were more than one) on the roadside for garbage collection.

The pain! The pain!

[einarsen]

Darn autocorrect.

On iPhone and Chechens is supposed to be checking.

[paigeoliver]

Multicade builders are trashing repairable 19" monitors left and right these days at the exact same time they are becoming much harder to come by.

[ark_ader]

I'm surprised that they would allow collection of arcade monitors via conventional refuse collection, considering the legal issues around RoHS and WEEE.

I am finding out that people are sending such equipment to Salvation Army to get around the disposal charges.

We all know it end ups in China or India.  Better there than having mercury seeping into the water system via the local dump in any US town.

[pbj]

Take it with a grain of salt.  I've heard so many "I JUST threw all that stuff away a couple of weeks ago" stories I quit believing them.

[lcmgadgets]

GAAAHH!! 

[CraftyMech]

How about when a younger version of yourself is the one who did the dumping?

Back in the late 90s I trashed a perfectly fine Apple RGB monitor (who needs CRTs anymore?) and only recently discovered they work great on the test bench for 15k RGB. I ended up spending $50 on a banged up model from eBay, but at least the screen is nice.

[pbj]

I hauled off and trashed 4 truckloads of arcade and PC parts less than 6 months ago.  No regrets.

 

[Mikezilla]

I hauled off and trashed 4 truckloads of arcade and PC parts less than 6 months ago.  No regrets.

 

so is this Pinballjim with a new account or what? Seems like only one is capable of that time of trolling. If this was adressed in another thread, I apologize.

[yotsuya]

It's the real deal!

[pbj]

Ain't no trolling around here.

 

[ark_ader]

Ain't no trolling around here.

 

[matt4949]

You see. Trolls don't wear clown suits. Just look at the picture.

[pbj]

Admittedly, about once every two weeks I go, "I wonder what every happened to.... oh yeah... oh well."  That pile of crap was getting overwhelming and was at the point it filled a closet and the space under several pinball machines. 

Feels good man.

[paigeoliver]

Admittedly, about once every two weeks I go, "I wonder what every happened to.... oh yeah... oh well."  That pile of crap was getting overwhelming and was at the point it filled a closet and the space under several pinball machines. 

Feels good man.

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I totally understand that. I am sitting on a lot of low value parts (bezels, transformers, coin doors, etc) and way more working 19" monitor stock and dead 25"+ monitor stock than I need and some days I wish it was all gone.

[yotsuya]

I totally understand that. I am sitting on a lot of low value parts (bezels, transformers, coin doors, etc) and way more working 19" monitor stock and dead 25"+ monitor stock than I need and some days I wish it was all gone.

How much for a working monitor shipped to 85015?

[BC_Jeffro]

at last count i have 27 monitors there in my shop, attic, under the house, in the house, and a big shelf full of NFG chassis but i never throw them away!!!!!
the really burnt ones get striped and put on a shelf and the ones missing color are in line for a rejuvenating attempt. 

[paigeoliver]

I won't ship any monitors other than a vector or those tiny dart monitors. Properly packing standard 19" monitors to survive Fed Ex just isn't worth it for either of us.

If you have a nonworking monitor with a common chassis then I can rebuild a chassis and sell you that.

I totally understand that. I am sitting on a lot of low value parts (bezels, transformers, coin doors, etc) and way more working 19" monitor stock and dead 25"+ monitor stock than I need and some days I wish it was all gone.

How much for a working monitor shipped to 85015?

[adder]

worst one i had was around 1987, england uk, was a young kid, skateboarding with friends and exploring some woodlands close to where a travelling fairground (complete with lots of arcades) had been for the summer and had now moved on. before the pikeys left, they had dumped about 4 or 5 machines in the woodlands, obviously all non workers of course, but they were mostly complete. one of the machines was definitely an orig taito space invaders as i remember the artwork and how it stood out from the others. anyway, i remember we messed around with the cabs for a bit (by messing around, i mean we climbed on them, pulled the wires out, tried to set fire to the wood, pissed on them, etc) before heading off to do some more skateboarding.

that boy has grown up now. the boy has become the man. and that man is f'king livid.

[Vigo]

Heh. Pikeys.

[ark_ader]

worst one i had was around 1987, england uk, was a young kid, skateboarding with friends and exploring some woodlands close to where a travelling fairground (complete with lots of arcades) had been for the summer and had now moved on. before the pikeys left, they had dumped about 4 or 5 machines in the woodlands, obviously all non workers of course, but they were mostly complete. one of the machines was definitely an orig taito space invaders as i remember the artwork and how it stood out from the others. anyway, i remember we messed around with the cabs for a bit (by messing around, i mean we climbed on them, pulled the wires out, tried to set fire to the wood, pissed on them, etc) before heading off to do some more skateboarding.

that boy has grown up now. the boy has become the man. and that man is f'king livid.

So you found some arcade cabs in a wood, and decided not to inform the police, but trashed the cabs and urinated on them.  Thus, you inadvertently sped up the process of damaging the wood from the toxicity of the materials inside, plus causing a Heath hazard.  Somehow I don't believe anyone at our time of 1987 in the UK could be so stupid.  One of the problems we are experiencing in the UK is those stupid kids of 1987 is probably making policy in the UK government.  Your story would sound more credible if we were talking about kids of today. 

[PL1]

Heh. Pikeys.

Did they have a periwinkle blue caravan?   


Scott