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ChadTower:


--- Quote from: TOK on August 06, 2008, 09:54:03 pm ---The idea of a take-apart cab is cool, but I don't think you're really going to need to do that. I recently got a Golden Tee 2005, which is a 450 pound behemoth and you can get it in and out by just removing the control panel. I have one old Bally/Midway cab that I had to pop the door trim to get into the room (interior door), and even doing that was far quicker than taking a cab apart.

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Stairs.  Some guys don't have help when moving things like this.

shmokes:

Much of my decision to build this way was based on a very specific reason.  The room in which it was going to go required negotiating a zig-zag in a narrow hallway.  At its dimensions it could not be done (and it's not even a particularly big cab).  I could have assembled it in the room, but it was just an apartment I was renting and I knew that I'd be moving out when I graduated.  I either had to make it significantly smaller, make it modular, or design it so it could be disassembled.

As it turned out, the cab got put on the back burner and I no longer live in that apartment.  But I'm still renting a place and going to school.  So even though I could easily put the cab in any room I wanted to in my current place, I know that I'll be moving again in a couple years and who knows what I'll be faced with there?  Not only that, but I already had the cabinet designed and the hardware purchased and all the panels and studs cut out.  By the time I got back to my cab this summer it wouldn't have made much sense to abandon my design after I'd already put so much work and money into it.  Especially since it may come in VERY handy when I move again in just a couple years.

TOK:


--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 07, 2008, 09:17:13 am ---
--- Quote from: TOK on August 06, 2008, 09:54:03 pm ---The idea of a take-apart cab is cool, but I don't think you're really going to need to do that. I recently got a Golden Tee 2005, which is a 450 pound behemoth and you can get it in and out by just removing the control panel. I have one old Bally/Midway cab that I had to pop the door trim to get into the room (interior door), and even doing that was far quicker than taking a cab apart.

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Stairs.  Some guys don't have help when moving things like this.

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C'mon, Shmokes must have at least one friend.  ;D
There are also dozens of basement arcade guys that manage with dedicated cabs.


ChadTower:


--- Quote from: TOK on August 07, 2008, 11:43:57 am ---C'mon, Shmokes must have at least one friend.  ;D
There are also dozens of basement arcade guys that manage with dedicated cabs.

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Possibly, but he did just move all the way across the country.  And basement arcade guys own their building, usually with a fairly easy entrance.  It's a different story in an apt building common area with stairwells. 

shmokes:

Not to mention that not everything has to be born out of absolute necessity.   ;D  Just because in a pinch I can call any number of people to help me move extraordinarily heavy furniture, doesn't mean it isn't cool to not need to.  It's not like your friends relish the idea of coming over to your house to help you lift an arcade cabinet up a flight of stairs.

Plus, no matter how many friends I have, I can't get a cab through a hallway and around corners that it is too big for (unless one of them is a general contractor, I suppose, and can rebuild the walls we knock out).

What's going on here?  Doesn't anybody think this is a cool feature/idea?   :laugh2:

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