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| Chris G:
--- Quote from: shorthair on March 23, 2007, 01:47:20 am ---Ya all just crack me up. I just could never imagine having that experience. --- End quote --- You can't imagine the experience of having to compromise with someone you're in a relationship with? Or are you referring specifically to having multiple arcades in the house? |
| btp2k2:
I had the experience of getting those looks from my wife....until she stepped in front of the first cabinet I built and played Joust....after that I had to use a crowbar to get her off the darn thing. Luckily for me, she gave no resistance when I announced my plans for number. Brian...I am down.....Shoot me a PM with contact info and lets chat. |
| bfauska:
OK, here's the situation...(my parents went away on a weeks vacation, and...) oops, got sidetracked. HERE's the situation. I don't have room for these games, but I'm itching to get my hands on some parts, and these machines happen to have some parts. Would I be a total :tool: If I picked up these machines and took them apart to use the monitors, controls, coindoors... and sold the art and other parts I don't need. They are both from the 1990's so I don't think that they are quite classics, but they are a bit rare, and ONE of them essentially works (game functions, but controls are not hooked up) I think that I could use the parts to make a custom cabinet. The person trying to get rid of them is willing to let me do with them as I please, but would it be some sort of arcade sin to part these out. The pictures of the actual cabs are below and as you see the condition of the art is not prime for restoration. The only other thing I could do is pick them up and maybe sell them to somebody near me, but that just feels sleazy after picking them up for free. Also, if I wanted to restore just the X-Men, would the T-Mek monitors work? I suppose if the size is different that makes it a silly question, but aside from that should they be interchangeable? ANY advice or opinions at all would help me here, and Seattle folks, if any of you have room for these (or one of these) let me know. I may contact some of you for help moving them either way, but if you could leave them intact, I would probably be willing to help you get them to a good home. Thanks, Brian |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: bfauska on March 26, 2007, 04:09:34 pm ---HERE's the situation. I don't have room for these games, but I'm itching to get my hands on some parts, and these machines happen to have some parts. Would I be a total :tool: If I picked up these machines and took them apart to use the monitors, controls, coindoors... and sold the art and other parts I don't need. They are both from the 1990's so I don't think that they are quite classics, but they are a bit rare, and ONE of them essentially works (game functions, but controls are not hooked up) I think that I could use the parts to make a custom cabinet. The person trying to get rid of them is willing to let me do with them as I please, but would it be some sort of arcade sin to part these out. The pictures of the actual cabs are below and as you see the condition of the art is not prime for restoration. --- End quote --- Condition looks pretty good to me. I agree with others that if they were that simple to fix, the previous owner would likely have done so, but I think you are likely to come out ahead to fix these up and sell them as working and use the proceeds to buy the parts you need. It's not exactly the same, but think of it as similar to if you had a '69 Camaro that only needed a carburetor, and you dropped the transmission out of it to put in your 79 Malibu and then tried to sell what was left of the Camaro. --- Quote ---The only other thing I could do is pick them up and maybe sell them to somebody near me, but that just feels sleazy after picking them up for free. --- End quote --- I wouldn't have a problem with you doing that. Nobody needs to know how much you did (or didn't) pay for them - now that you've posted it in a public forum. :laugh2: |
| shardian:
If you have the resources to sell them, and you did the person you got them from the favor of getting out of their house then there is no problem IMO. If you feel guilty, then you could share the profits with them. |
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