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| CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Havok on December 18, 2008, 07:40:22 pm ---Well I'm certainly not. I am however comparing it to a traditionally built screw and glue construction as opposed to outrigger\cam construction. It just doesn't hold up. Now, if you don't move it ever, and it's not used on location, I don't see a problem with home use only. A disclaimer should be mentioned however, especially in an objective review. Me, I prefer something a little more durable, just in case. Back in my apartment hopping days I can't count how many pieces of cheap particle board cam construction furniture didn't make it to the next place... --- End quote --- Safe to say we're on the same side ... I was just surprised to see Shoegazer try to make such a comparison -- I've seen some 20+YO HUO/NIB cabs and authentic cabs certainly don't start off looking like the way they do after years of abuse in a corner in a movie theatre. |
| Shoegazer:
Cheffo has a good point, but in my case, I was commenting on things like wood thickness and the melamine in the arcade cab vs. the formica on my SS cab. That has nothing to do with wear-and-tear. Not that it matters to the quality of the cab itself, but I also noticed the buttons they used in the arcade cab were nowhere near as high quality as the Happ buttons SS chose to include on my cab - and that also had nothing to do with the fact that they were pressed 10 billion times more than mine. Having said all that, I feel very badly that some of the folks on this thread got as screwed as they did. I guess I'm lucky in a sense that I actually got my cab, but I still feel as screwed as any customer in a more "normal" situation would when they spend a lot of money on a product and the company they bought it from goes belly up overnight. I'd love to send my panel back to SS to have a flush mount Trackball installed in place of my original, but now I know that'll never happen, especially since I don't have the tools needed to do it myself. Shoegazer |
| CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Shoegazer on December 18, 2008, 07:55:16 pm ---Cheffo has a good point, but in my case, I was commenting on things like wood thickness and the melamine in the arcade cab vs. the formica on my SS cab. That has nothing to do with wear-and-tear. Not that it matters to the quality of the cab itself, but I also noticed the buttons they used in the arcade cab were nowhere near as high quality as the Happ buttons SS chose to include on my cab - and that also had nothing to do with the fact that they were pressed 10 billion times more than mine. --- End quote --- Other than my Nintendo cabs, all of mine are 3/4" either plywood or particle board. That is pretty much standard. Are you suggesting that Slikstik built cabs with thicker material (they might have ... I don't have one) ? As for buttons, pretty much the lowest quality buttons I have ever had on a cab were Happ buttons (and they were crap because they were worn). The 29 year-old buttons on my Asteroids cab are in better shape than some Happ buttons that I bought new less than 5 years ago. I have 20-year-old NOS Wico buttons that look and feel better than any new buttons I have bought. Yeah, some operators swap in cheap parts when the convert cabs, but they definitely don't come out of the factory that way. FWIW, I get your point (SS built some good stuff ... I bought stuff from them in the past), I just don't think that the comparison you make is valid. |
| Ummon:
I think the standard for wood cabs has always been 3/4" playwood...um, plywood/particle board. --- Quote from: Shoegazer on December 18, 2008, 07:55:16 pm --- I'd love to send my panel back to SS to have a flush mount Trackball installed in place of my original, but now I know that'll never happen, especially since I don't have the tools needed to do it myself. Shoegazer --- End quote --- You just send it to Mameroom or ArU, instead. |
| Shoegazer:
Well, I beg to differ with you. My comparison was perfectly valid. Apparently SS made their cabs of thicker material, at least from some of the ones I've seen. The cabs I saw that day specifically were at least 1/2" thickness, and definitely thinner than my SS cab, especially around the control panel. I personally love the Happ buttons, and they're some of the highest quality of those I've used. Sure they aren't as sturdy feeling as Asteroids buttons (Atari used different buttons in Asteroids than most other cabs of the day; Gyruss also comes to mind) but they're clearly above industry average. Also the buttons I saw on the cabs that day didn't look like they were swapped at all - their color matched perfectly fit the motif of the cabinet art. Shoegazer |
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