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vwalbridge:
--- Quote from: pbj on March 25, 2016, 11:10:48 am ---- don't die
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Oh my...please don't pbj. I still need to buy you a beer. ZapCon 2017. Hold on until then. I'm counting on you.
--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 25, 2016, 11:36:37 am ---I think back to my dads workshop when I was younger and how having kids and getting older must have really caused him to slow down on project work. It seemed there were half completed projects everywhere and many that were never started. I never wanted that for me, so I switched over to 1 single arcade project at a time.
There is a certain amount of juggling of projects I can do before it all falls to pieces. Don't get me wrong, I have an arcade project, but I also have some landscape work, some kids playroom stuff, some car stuff, etc. projects going on, but my arcade is nearly perfect. (I had a mobo die in the jukebox last week that is next on the list).
By having projects completing, there is a sense of getting stuff done for me. If all I could show after 2 weeks of work is cap kits, slots cut, but not 1 completed cab, it would seem like an overwhelming amount of work left to do. Also, an arcade cab has so many projects in it that building one, planned right, takes time.
Woodworking
Artwork design\ordering
Controls (research, ordering, etc)
Painting
customizing the computer
wiring
etc. etc.
Building a single cabinet takes 100% of my time for the length of the project, so there isn't much time to lean or time to save. I've built almost 3 dozen cabs in the 10ish years I've been doing it and I try to get them to 100% before moving on.
Everyone has their own method and everyone can handle half completed projects differently.
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I'm an arcadeaholic and I'd like you to be my sponsor. Anytime I start working on everything at once, I'm going to need your support to keep me focused. :)
leapinlew:
I remember early on, when you could still get people to give you an arcade game for free if you hauled it away from their house, I had projects stacking up. You could turn around and sell those machines for $800-$1,000 after investing a couple hundred in them. Those were the days...
I eventually gave away 2 nintendo cabs just to thin the herd. I spent a lot of time building bartops, but I'm back to full size. I don't think I'll be building anything for a while, so I'm going to go through my parts, sell things off, give things away, and move on to something else.
For me, my collection is complete. I have a upright star wars, a galaga mame with vertical monitor and wico 4 way, and a horizontal mame with a trackball.
pbj:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 25, 2016, 12:09:44 pm ---For me, my collection is complete. I have a upright star wars, a galaga mame with vertical monitor and wico 4 way, and a horizontal mame with a trackball.
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Still have that weird Xenophobe pedestal thing? I always liked that.
I still have your Combatribes board in a box.... :-P
paigeoliver:
I redid the control panel on my existing Mame cabinet to eliminate the curved buttons, but I haven't rewired it yet.
I have both Jrok BZF and Mystar projects in various states of playable but unfinished.
I have a finished Stern logo cabinet current running a jrok BZF board that needs to be restored to a correct game now that I found a Frenzy cabinet for the BZF to live in.
The LED displays on my Welsh Sega Turbo don't work.
My Blackout pin has no sound and needs to be completely shopped out.
My Asteroids doesn't make the "pew pew" sound when I fire.
Playchoice 10 desperately needs a new overlay and I am fairly sure I want to replace the terrible original Nintendo sticks with some of the newer Japanese sticks that have the same bolt pattern.
Lock N Chase doesn't have sound.
I am sitting on a spare 27" VGA arcade monitor that I planned on eventually putting into something vertically.
vwalbridge:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 25, 2016, 01:41:28 pm ---I redid the control panel on my existing Mame cabinet to eliminate the curved buttons, but I haven't rewired it yet.
I have both Jrok BZF and Mystar projects in various states of playable but unfinished.
I have a finished Stern logo cabinet current running a jrok BZF board that needs to be restored to a correct game now that I found a Frenzy cabinet for the BZF to live in.
The LED displays on my Welsh Sega Turbo don't work.
My Blackout pin has no sound and needs to be completely shopped out.
My Asteroids doesn't make the "pew pew" sound when I fire.
Playchoice 10 desperately needs a new overlay and I am fairly sure I want to replace the terrible original Nintendo sticks with some of the newer Japanese sticks that have the same bolt pattern.
Lock N Chase doesn't have sound.
I am sitting on a spare 27" VGA arcade monitor that I planned on eventually putting into something vertically.
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Wowzers. Not gonna lie, some of those words I didn't even recognize. And I'll stop complaining, you have more complicated projects. :)