My First Arcade Cabinet! Help me out please!

[MarkMan]

Hi, I'm new here.  Name is Mark, nice to meet ya.

I've been planning on getting an arcade cabinet for awhile now.  I've always wanted a Japanese style cabinet like a Sega Astro City or a Versus City cabinet.  But with this one so close by to my house(2 min drive) I couldn't resist!

Just got this in a few days ago.  Had to hurry to tote it over to my place because it was startin' to rain.  Thankfully it just started pouring after we got to my place instead of while we were en route.


It used to be a Tekken 2 cabinet.  Now it houses good old Tekken Tag.  Everything is in good working order from what I tested at the former owner's place.


The only thing I want to do is replace the stick/buttons and the plexiglass on the control panel.  After that it should be good to go for regular play!

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I got 2 HAPP Ultimates and 10 HAPP Competition buttons to replace the old ones with.

I really need to replace the plexiglass on the control panel.  Any suggestions on as how to do it?  Should I just take off the old one and take it somewhere to have it made?

Thanks for any tips in advance!

[ClubNinja]

You should be able to find a local plastics shop in the phonebook.  They'd certainly be able to reproduce it for you.  Just look under "plastic".

[clanggedin]

Home Depot will make 2 cuts for you for free and they usually have plexi and lexan in stock.

[kjoel0123]

Dont go to the home depot, go to a glass shop, almost every glass shop sells  plexi and will cut it for a small fee.

[clanggedin]

If you go to a glass shop expect to pay 3x what you would at Home Depot. I paid $60 for piece of lexan cut to fit my cab. At Home depot I paid $20 to have a piece of lexan cut to fit a cab.

[brophog]

Our Home Depot must have had too many of you guys around. They now have signs saying they will not do project cuts!