alternate cocktail cab plans?

[keltech]

i hope you can help
just wondering if anyone new where i could get plans to built an cocktail machine like this one that is selling on ebay? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3945&item=6115384267&rd=1

i've seen other plans on the web but they all seem to be the ms pacman cocktail style design plans.

thanks for any advice

[danny_galaga]

depending on how handy you are this might be useful:

http://www.tknq.net/mame/diagram.html

those drawings were  all i used to build mine:

http://dannygalaga.com/mame.htm

if you want to build it with a vertical panel like the ebay one i would consider making a test panel and see if its comfortable playing mame on your pc first. i vaguely remember finding them awkward...

[paigeoliver]

Buy one, get it shipped to you. I have owned 4 of those now and I can tell you that you would have to be an expert cabinet maker and own a metal fabrication shop to build one of those.

They are fairly cheap too. I just sold two of the darn things to soulcon for around $60 each.

Also, Danny, I can't believe you built one of those! I see yours is a bit different than the normal ones though, as the normal ones use a lot of metal in addition to the wood.

[keltech]

THANKS FOR THE REPLIES
great looking cab
!!!
i'm going to try and build one see how i get on, the hard thing is to make it look professional.

if could find an empty cab or kit in the uk i would buy one but theirs never any on sale so it looks like i have to build one.

[Fuzzguitar]

Being an Aussie I'd really like plans or a kit for something similar too. We just didn't see the Ms.Pacman style tabletops here. Seems to me the interest in these Japanese style tables is growing around here lately.

[Soulcon]

Alot of the metal work I saw in the cabs I purchased from Paigeoliver could be converted to wood. That is with careful planning and the knowledge it would be slighty bigger. The legs are simple to make seeing as you can just buy Square metal bars and weld them. I am actually going to try with mine a small fabrication to convert the vertical control panels to horizontal. I think it would be a little more comfortabe for my wife. However I want to keep the Classic look about it so I might go to a metal shop and have them fabricate the a piece that would just push out the current panel.

Ofcourse this will be after I mess with my Atari Basketball cabinet. I went into my basement to see my newest arrivals from Paigeoliver and My mind went gogo. There are so many options I can do with this cab its insain. but that is a different topic. sorry for going a stray.

-Soul

[rchadd]

take a look at this...

http://www.cia.com.au/ihs/cocktail/cabinet.html