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Title: Anyone own a Star Wars upright cabinet?
Post by: valiant on October 25, 2010, 10:54:58 am

Hi

I was wondering if anyone owned an original Star Wars upright cabinet?  I’m fairly fortunate to have obtained an immaculate, original and refurbished Star Wars yoke.  As a child living on the UK coast, this was the game I spent all of my pocket money on in local arcades!

I’m intending to build a dedicated MAME machine running Star Wars, but despite doing many searches here in BYOAC and on Google et al, I’m coming up short on any cabinet plans or dimensions.

If anyone owns such a cab (and if you do, I’m jealous already!!) I’m willing to outlay some beer funds for half an hour of their time to do some measurements for me and take some high resolution photos.

I can prepare a draft sketch – I just need to know dimensions, angles, rebates etc. I would expect at most, half an hour’s work.

Ordinarily I would try to hunt down a cab a bit closer to home, but as we all know here, they are fairly rare, and in the UK, even more so.

Please help – and let me make a worth cab for the yoke!  ;D

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Anyone own a Star Wars upright cabinet?
Post by: RayB on October 25, 2010, 04:09:14 pm

Hello. You must be Nick P.  ;D

Title: Re: Anyone own a Star Wars upright cabinet?
Post by: RayB on October 27, 2010, 07:51:19 pm

I recommend you change your first post's title to "Star Wars cabinet measurements?" so that other people searching will benefit from this.

Attached is basic rough measurements. I don't know how to get more accurate because this machine is full of curves!! I tried to approximate to roughly halfway to a rounded corner, or in the case of long slopey curves, to the beginning of it.

Also, grab the manual as it's full of excellent diagrams of pretty much every part.

Color version: http://www.vernimark.com/arcade/atari/tm-225.pdf (http://www.vernimark.com/arcade/atari/tm-225.pdf)
Black n white is on http://www.crazykong.com (http://www.crazykong.com)

Title: Re: Anyone own a Star Wars upright cabinet?
Post by: shrunkenmaster on October 28, 2010, 03:13:43 am

Hey Valiant,

I started a thread here that may be of some help:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=104116.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=104116.0)

Let me know if you decide not to build the cab - I will happily take the yoke off your hands!

Title: Re: Anyone own a Star Wars upright cabinet?
Post by: RayB on January 25, 2011, 01:06:53 am

Someone else ended up needing these measurements and pointed out a few I had missed that can help with the accuracy, so here it is updated (new info is in green).

If I can find a decent size protractor I'll measure angles too.

Title: Re: Anyone own a Star Wars upright cabinet?
Post by: JODY on January 25, 2011, 09:54:14 pm

I provided some measurements to threads in the past.  Own two of the cabinets if you need more details.

Title: Re: Anyone own a Star Wars upright cabinet?
Post by: Generic Eric on February 24, 2011, 08:08:08 pm

I'd love some angles for mounting the control panel.  Thanks.