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Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: MameMaster! on October 24, 2003, 10:34:54 am
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Greets all.
I'm looking for a NON working PCB board to mount in a frame as a display for my arcade room.
Does anyone have one they're willing to trade/sell for a few bucks?
I would prefer a flat board (no "levels") and one that's marked with the Sega, Nintendo, Atari etc. company name.
Thanks!
The MameMaster! ;)
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How about a Midway Omega Race board....... ?
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There are non working boards on ebay all the time for $5 or less.
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Heck, you could probably get a working one for dirt cheap as well.
I like your idea. A framed PCB... Sweet. I have a few pinball playfields I am going to clean and artify for my gameroom, but your idea is pretty cool, too. Mind if I steal it? :D
APf
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I did something like this, but I didn't frame them. The boards I have on the wall work, so I may occasionally use them.
There is an overhang in my basement ceiling for ductwork right over the games where I placed some marquees and I screwed in some eye hooks to hang some boards from, as well as a small shelf that I place various controls for "decoration". Somehow I doubt my tastes will ever grace the pages of the House & Garden style guide, but it suits me. ;)
http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/boards-marquees.jpg
ps - sorry mamemaster, I don't have any non-working boards for you. But APFelon is right, you can pick up working boards real cheap, too. I've purchased a number of working jamma boards for $10 or less.
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Heck, you could probably get a working one for dirt cheap as well.
I like your idea. A framed PCB... Sweet. I have a few pinball playfields I am going to clean and artify for my gameroom, but your idea is pretty cool, too. Mind if I steal it? :D
APf
Of course not!....frame away!
The MameMaster!
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I did something like this, but I didn't frame them. The boards I have on the wall work, so I may occasionally use them.
There is an overhang in my basement ceiling for ductwork right over the games where I placed some marquees and I screwed in some eye hooks to hang some boards from, as well as a small shelf that I place various controls for "decoration". Somehow I doubt my tastes will ever grace the pages of the House & Garden style guide, but it suits me. ;)
http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/boards-marquees.jpg
ps - sorry mamemaster, I don't have any non-working boards for you. But APFelon is right, you can pick up working boards real cheap, too. I've purchased a number of working jamma boards for $10 or less.
That's cool...I would like to make a "joystick" display of classic console controls someday.
Regarding the board....most people that I show my cab to don't have the slighted clue as to how big each of these boards really are (especially for the 80's games).
I thought it would be neat to frame it like art......
Thanks for the pic though!
The MameMaster! ;D
PS- I picked up a working Zaxxon (great classic in my book) on ebay over the weekend for $30. (including shipping).....I'll post a pic when I'm done framing this baby.....this is artwork to me!
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How about a Midway Omega Race board....... ?
thanks for the offer...but I picked up a Zaxxon board over the weekend on ebay...
The MameMaster! ;)
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I did this with the first IBM As/400 I ever worked on. I threw the case out after I gutted it.
My wife had the motherboard framed for me. Unfortunately, it was busted during our move.
It was a thick board, so the frame was big bucks. Definitely get a thin one.
(http://www.link400.com/Img_1333.jpg)
Art
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I did this with the first IBM As/400 I ever worked on. I threw the case out after I gutted it.
My wife had the motherboard framed for me. Unfortunately, it was busted during our move.
It was a thick board, so the frame was big bucks. Definitely get a thin one.
(http://www.link400.com/Img_1333.jpg)
Art
I considered mounting it like you did....but came to the conclusion it's too expensive.
I'm planning on gluing it to a piece of foam core (most likely white or black and mounting that in a standard picture frame with no glass so you could actually touch the board.
I figure that would be the easiest/cheapest way to do it.
The MameMaster!
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I'm planning on gluing it to a piece of foam core (most likely white or black and mounting that in a standard picture frame with no glass so you could actually touch the board.
The MameMaster!
Good idea. Might as well let 'em feel the sweetness of the board :D
I'm going to yank my glass right now and get this sucker back on the wall.
Art
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Nice decorations Oscar.
So far on my gameroom wall I have a complete NOS "Hunchback Olympics" conversion kit (on foamcore), NOS X-Men (COTA) and Black Tiger sideart, a Road Fighter poster, PGA Tour Golf and Kramer Krane marquees.
I also have a bunch of stuff I haven't put up yet. Marquees (Omega Race, Meltec's Big Mouth, Ajax, and a marquee that is either a Bootleg MVS marquee or a prototype MVS marquee), an NOS Willis Asteroids overlay, and some other odds and ends (Kangaroo glass, Dig Dug glass, complete Kangaroo panel, and aTac/Scan panel).
I have framed Pump it Up and Star Wars flyers on top of my fridge, a framed Puppy Pong promotional picture in the living room as well as a framed Millipede flyer and another whose name escapes me in the gameroom.