Finding Cabinets in the UK

[sebastian]

Dose anyone know were I can find old smashed broken not working
arcade machine cabinet in the uk because i cant find one so please help

-sebastian 

[waveryder]

Try Ebay Not that hard to find!
http://video-games.listings.ebay.co.uk/Coin-Operated_Video-Games_W0QQfclZ3QQfromZR11QQsacatZ3945QQsocmdZListingItemList

[slider2732]

Unless my Gran has thrown out the one I left in her shed when I moved to the USA...you could have that if near Cheshire !
Generic VideoMaster 2 player cab with a JAMMA loom, coin mechs and no glass. Perfect for MAME.
Also about 40 CAMRA beer festival glasses in the same shed for free lol

Wish i'd kept the number of a guy in Leigh, Lancashire. He had a warehouse with about 40 games in. I got that cab from him, with Street Fighter II working board, for £40.

But certainly cabs aren't too hard to find. If near the sea you might gain from one of the local free papers ads sections. Old operators/new premises owners throw out what they consider crap all the time...and in with it are huge 6ft coffin shaped boxes that are 20+ years old and heavy

[sebastian]

I dont want to use ebay because i cant it is not fair

[ark_ader]

Heres an idea:

Build your own.

My Sub Mini Pacman was 15 Inches high and still gets most of my attention.

The best thing is it costs £30 and its mum/wife friendly as you can hide it in the closet.

Better than a full cabinet and you can save yourself getting a hernia while trying to put it in the shed.  There are better examples, but I'll just shamelessly plug mine anyway.   

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=66037.0

[slider2732]

  ark_ader

I built a full size..$30 total (or about £16), cos actually I ran into similar problems with having no cash.
But building one isn't scary, just got to have the time and patience.
Here's my build photo's etc to show ya.

http://www.yoshi.us/forums/showthread.php?t=22798


Course, could take things a little further even than the sub mini and build one of these
Shameless link underneath, for my building of it. That's a mobile phone screen in there !



http://www.mwmv.com/Forum/index.php?topic=297.0

[Oddfeld]

Dose anyone know were I can find old smashed broken not working
arcade machine cabinet in the uk because i cant find one

Where in the UK are you?

[sebastian]

I live in bath

BA1 3QF
 

[waveryder]

Try this one on ebay, same as my present project already has a comp in it you just need to tart it up and put in a new CP.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOUCH-SCREEN-19-CAB-IDEAL-PROJECT-ARCADE-OR-JUKE-BOX_W0QQitemZ120141062005QQihZ002QQcategoryZ11048QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem