Heyas all,
I decided to finally get into making a MAME machine, and found myself the owner of an old Double Axle (1990 Taito if I recall) cabinet, no monitor or controls. Which is fine with me, I wanted to put a MAME machine into it anyway, and either buy or make a controller. So yesterday a friend of mine and I tried to truck it down the stairs of my house. At the bottom of the first flight there's a landing, and we would have had to turn 180 degrees to get down the next flight. Would have. The corner of the landing has a 45 degree section jutting out, and no way was she going to fit down there. No amount of turning, lifting, etc is going to get past the fact that that 45 degree section of wall is physically occupying space that the cabinet would need (as the two holes in the wall attest to).
Disappointed and tired, I went to bed after we cajoled it back into the garage. I didn't have any time to thoroughly inspect it last night or this morning, so I'm sitting here at work trying to figure out how one of these things comes apart. Is it mostly screws? Staples? Nails? Glue/epoxy?
How do you take an arcade cabinet apart? Reciprocating saw? Rubber mallet? This question depends mostly, I would guess, on how the thing is held together.
Any hints or tips you guys could throw at me would be greatly appreciated. Til then, I'll be sitting here, watching the clock until I can go home and attack this thing.
Thanks,
Al