Between wood, misc. parts (marquee retainer, speaker cover, coin door, etc.) and so on you came way out ahead of $100. And now you can redeem it from its history as a golf game. ;D Nice find, looking forward to what you create with it.Ya I was really happy to find a nice cab like this for cheap. I was originally thinking it would likely cost me $150 and thats actually what this guy wanted but he said he just wanted to get rid of it so he'd give it to me for $100. The guy is a pinball machine fixer and said he had bought a truck trailer full of old arcade and pinball stuff. This was actually 1 of 4 Golden tee machines that were in the trailer.
Got the old control panel still? Need one of those.Are you talking about the Golden Tee CP? Cuz yes I still have that.
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Got the old control panel still? Need one of those.Are you talking about the Golden Tee CP? Cuz yes I still have that.
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I would use a game instead of a movie.Well i'm not planning on using the fred and pals picture I was just going off that for the marquee and changing the colors around. As far as the control panel I was thinking about reversing the colors and doing mostly black but we'll see as i'm still in the planning stages for that.
Otherwise i'd crop out Fred and pals.
The smoke cp doesnt really match either
Seems like it would be a really sweet feature though im not sure what I would have it display. Maybe just duplicate the display.
I am sure you posted it somewhere here but what monitor did you use?
and what is the top mini monitor for?
I have an golden Tee 99 i might make into a mame trackball game and looking to take the CRT out of it.
it is a working 25 in crt but I am just sick of CRTs.
I am sure you posted it somewhere here but what monitor did you use?
and what is the top mini monitor for?
I have an golden Tee 99 i might make into a mame trackball game and looking to take the CRT out of it.
it is a working 25 in crt but I am just sick of CRTs.
The monitor is a "24 Asus but it is actually not the monitor I plan on using in the end. I have a dual monitor setup for my home PC and this was just a test monitor. I plan on going with a 26or27" in the end to maximize the space. One thing I have found with the asus monitor is that the viewing angle from the top and bottom isn't very good. Because of the slant of the cabinet the monitor doesn't sit at optimal viewing angle. It hasn't bothered me but my girlfriend who is a lot shorter says sometimes she has a hard time seeing the screen. As far as the second monitor I just put it there becasue I had it lying a round and I'm not sure what I'll use it for but some good ideas were suggested in previous posts.
I'm trying to find a 27" computer monitor which seems to be the biggest that will fit in this cabinet, but until I get that I temporarily hooked up and extra 24" monitor I had and I am gonna use that for a while. I used a couple of brackets that the originally monitor must have been mounted to. I just moved them a little and I am resting the monitor on them. Nothing real secure but it will work for the time being. I still need to get all the LED's wired up but I did manage to get the joysticks hooked up.
So I finally got back to work on this cab. I decided that it was just too big for my house and that I needed to make it smaller so I ended up cutting off the back end of the cab and redesigning the layout of it. I have the constronstion of the cabinet pretty much done now with only a few more things to do on the basic build. I will post some pics soon of what I have done.
You can trim the inner MDF back a few inches and fit a 28" 16:10 lcd in it. I have the same cab and am going that route. I currently have a 27" tube tv, case and all in mine! It was a pain getting the tv in, but to fit the lcd, all that is required is trim the mdf back a few inches, mount a 2x4 w/ vesa mount and done! The tv required trimming the bottom where the glass sits, and also trimming the top where the glass slides up into. But the GT cabs are great for conversions I think! Also a 27" 16x9 lcd is about 22" diag. in 4:3, whereas the 16x10 28" is a little over 24" in 4:3.