For Free/For Trade Williams Cabinet in NJ

[SuperGyro]

I've got a William's "Make Trax" Arcade Machine.  The machine is in pretty nice condition, though there's a catch.  The machine has a strong smell of what I like to call "church incense", you know that stuff that they light during holidays and such.  I'm not quite sure what exactly causes this semll, though I'm pretty confident that it's not cat urine or anything disgusting like that..

Well, the machine is a wooden machine, there is no control panel.  Although a monitor and marquee are pictured, they are not included in this deal that I'm about to present.

So.. it's a stripped arcade cabinet.. If you're interested in the cabinet.. I have no problem giving it away to a kid.. If you're older, I have no problem giving it to you, but there's a catch.. hook me up with something.. anything to show a token of your appreciation.. a nintendo cart, a pcb that you don't like, an old console, some computer device.. whatever...

A pic is attached

[paigeoliver]

Well, the machine is a wooden machine, there is no control panel.  Although a monitor and marquee are pictured, they are not included in this deal that I'm about to present.

Please don't strip the marquee from a dedicated cabinet that has sideart. I really doubt you have another Make Trax laying around with a missing marquee. I really don't like when people pull custom parts from semi-complete cabinets for no reason. Just add the value of the marquee to the price or something.

Like, when I bought my Sprint One, the seller was trying to sell it minus coin door. It turns out he wanted a coin door to build a Mame cabinet, and thus was going to pull the door from a complete dedicated machine. I brought him a Midway Pac-Man door, and he thankfully left the original door (the early Asteroids style, VERY hard to find) on the cabinet.

Another pointless part hoarding I recently encountered was when I got a couple of project games from a guy in exchange for a favor (picking up, and then holding a game for a loooong time). They both had WG monitors, the kind that have the plug in cards, and the guy pulled the cards from the monitors. So now I have two monitors that I can never use, while the guy has some plug in cards that he has no monitors for (and I know this guy, he WILL NOT work on monitors, he won't cap them, he won't try to repair them, all I have really ever seen him do is break them because he keeps switching them around between cabinets).

So, yeah, I am on the soapbox here, but sell stuff as complete as possible. If people don't start doing this, then soon every game around is going to be a piece of junk because of the part out pattern.

Someone has complete game that may or may not work.

They strip all the parts out of it, and sell them on ebay/keep them/trade them/etc.

Empty cabinet is bought by someone else, who mames it and puts cupholders on it, because it was only an empty cabinet (I don't blame them, except for the cupholders). Or it is bought by someone else who actually goes to the trouble to locate all the missing parts and put it back together again.

But then the reassembled game isn't as nice as it originally was, the new wiring won't be as clean as the factory wiring, the marquee and glass will likely have wear from being handled and shipped (ever notice how marquees that are actually on original dedicated games or conversions that haven't been futzed with tend to be really nice, while the loose marquees you find tend to be scratched up? That is from handling. Control panels in particularly are hard to find, so the game may end up with a non-original control panel.

Move the clock up a few years. Game gets sold again, perhaps working, perhaps not.

It once again gets parted out, and the pattern repeats until some well meaning, but misled BYOACer makes a cut in the cabinet to add a larger control panel. At that point the cabinet is dumpster bound, it is only a matter of time.

[BLACK KNIGHT]

Hey didn't I see that game at the Cherry Hill Super Auctions in NJ?!?!  

[SuperGyro]

So.. anyone want the machine?  Got emails, but no one has come to pick it up yet.

[kilroy]

  I may know someone who might be interested.  My brother was drooling over my cocktail cabinet the other day.  He doesn't have anything he can offer up in trade but if he's interested I'll see what I can scare up.  I have a knack for collecting some odd items that others can use.  That's how I got my 21" monitor, I traded a bunch of old junk for it! lol

[SuperGyro]

Well, this is the deal.. If no one wants the machine by wednesday I am going to strip it and then take a sledge hammer to it.  It's a shame as with all of this multi-williams stuff going on.. it could be turned into big bucks.. just needs to air out for a week..