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My plans for a cheap cab
GameDork:
--- Quote from: cbmeeks on June 04, 2004, 04:55:59 pm ---
I have looked everywhere and NO ONE in chattanooga has an existing cab to modify.
Thanks!
cb
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Have you checked with American Amusement in East Ridge? They have about 600 arcades in the warehouse, and plenty of them don't work.
www.americanamusement.com
RayB:
EBAY is sometimes good for bargain parts.
Occasionally there a sellers who have acquired large lots and they part everything out and sell it for whatever. If you can find such listings you can find some deals.
For example, I found a listing for a complete control panel from an old conversion (GunForce). It had 2 Happ joysticks (the kind popular for fighting games), and 6 buttons, and the wiring with molex plug. Nobody was bidding on it, so I got it for $1.99 plus shipping.
Same seller, I bought a Sprint 2 control panel also for about $2. It was stripped except for 3 lighted "cone" style atari buttons.
Same seller had joysticks and buttons taken out of some Wrestelfest conversion, with wiring and molex plug. It too about $2 cuz no one was bidding.
I combined all of these into one shipment to save on shipping.
Now for at least prototyping and initial building, I have a good variety of sticks and buttons. Used buttons aren't the greatest, but the joysticks are still quite acceptable, especially when first building my cab. I can always replace part by part with new later on if it really bothers me.
And you can't beat Atari lit cone buttons at the price I paid. ;D