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| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on November 02, 2006, 04:10:08 pm --- Hey he did get 3 cabs for $150 ... Cheers. --- End quote --- Exactly! Thats still more than $40 |
| spacies:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on November 01, 2006, 06:50:21 am --- im in brisbane although you'd think you were in nz what with all the kiwis here ;) --- End quote --- Im hearing on that one. Hardly any kiwis here now, they are all in OZ. We have Asians and Indians to replace the Kiwis. :laugh2: I sold a machine to a company here and they just shipped it to a new store in OZ. It went to Sydney though, that why I was asking were you were. :cheers: |
| Nannuu:
--- Quote from: Nannuu on October 31, 2006, 02:12:52 pm ---You can definitely build a cabinet for less than $40 BUT you may be doing a lot of work or getting a lot of favors to do it. --- End quote --- --- Quote from: leapinlew on October 31, 2006, 03:23:11 pm ---I don't believe I'm in the minority here when I say thats impossible. If unless by "a lot of favors" you mean people giving you stuff for free - a ton of stuff. This guy had no tools and no material. $40 is a totally unrealistic number. --- End quote --- Yeah it's possible, or was until he wussed out and blew his budget. But yes, getting a ton of free stuff, using school tools or friends tools etc can get you a really cheap cabinet. I personally couldn't build a cabinet for that much but is has been done on the board before. I think I remember Paigeoliver building a cabinet for $20 once (or more acurately, maming an existing cabinet). But he was always really good at that and was around arcade stuff a lot so he had good connections. But like I said, I couldn't do it. I wouldn't even try. I tend to use any project as an excuse to buy more tools thus bringing the price of anything I make up well above what it could have been. |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: Nannuu on November 03, 2006, 08:07:55 pm --- --- Quote from: Nannuu on October 31, 2006, 02:12:52 pm ---You can definitely build a cabinet for less than $40 BUT you may be doing a lot of work or getting a lot of favors to do it. --- End quote --- --- Quote from: leapinlew on October 31, 2006, 03:23:11 pm ---I don't believe I'm in the minority here when I say thats impossible. If unless by "a lot of favors" you mean people giving you stuff for free - a ton of stuff. This guy had no tools and no material. $40 is a totally unrealistic number. --- End quote --- Yeah it's possible, or was until he wussed out and blew his budget. But yes, getting a ton of free stuff, using school tools or friends tools etc can get you a really cheap cabinet. I personally couldn't build a cabinet for that much but is has been done on the board before. I think I remember Paigeoliver building a cabinet for $20 once (or more acurately, maming an existing cabinet). But he was always really good at that and was around arcade stuff a lot so he had good connections. But like I said, I couldn't do it. I wouldn't even try. I tend to use any project as an excuse to buy more tools thus bringing the price of anything I make up well above what it could have been. --- End quote --- I believe you can do a really cheap cabinet. Just not $40. I spent that in gas picking up materials. If paigeoliver did it for $20, it might have something to do with him having all the parts on hand already... My parents gave me a car when I turned 16, but I wouldn't suggest to people that cars can be free. |
| kelemvor:
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