Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Sylentwulf on July 06, 2004, 04:42:19 pm
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Ok, Time for me to decide.
I'm building a cab based on the ultimate arcade II design, it's going to be on hardwood floor and/or hard vinyl flooring. I'm going to be buying the t-molding and bezel from happ depending on the shipping rate I can get, so I'm planning on getting the leg levelers or wheels from them too.
Question is, any suggestions/pro's/con's as to which to get, wheels or leg levelers?
If I'm getting wheels, they MUST LOCK and NOT MOVE while I'm playing. I prefer wheels, but haven't been able to find non-swivel locking casters.
Leg levelers - There are a ton of choices at www.happcontrols.com and 2 different? mounting plates for them. Which leg levelers and plates should I get? I was looking at the 2 below, any yay's or nay's for these?
49-1002-02 Leg Leveler w/nut 3/8
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Go with wheels, mine are locking but due to the 400lb weight of the cab I don't need to lock them it only moves if I want it too!
My cab is on a hardwood floor too, I don't know anything about leg levellers but if you don't have wheels its going to be really hard to move it.
Gary
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Good question! I have a set of fridge casters (they roll back n forth but will not turn).
Anyone recommend if I should install those on my cab?
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Looks like I'm gonna continue my hunt for locking non-swivel casters right now. Home depot being pretty much the only place I have available to find them, and their selection sucks.
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I use swivel, locking casters on the front and non-swivel casters on the back. The non-swivel do not have locks but the machine just does not move at all when I play. You'd be fine with this setup.
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If it is going to be on hard floors of any kind, think about leg levelers with the rubber feet (Happ sells the rubber feet separate from the leg levelers themselves). Supercade is on casters (wheels), which was fine back when I lived in a house with only carpet. Now that I live in a house with hardwood floors, it is tearing up the floor something fierce. I'm pretty much kissing my security deposit goodbye as a result. All my future cabs will have leg levelers.
The drawback to not having wheels is that it is a pain to move, yes. The solution? I invested $100 at home depot to get an appliance dolly. Just something to think about if you have hard floors...
-Jeff "etumor"
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I use swivel, locking casters on the front and non-swivel casters on the back. The non-swivel do not have locks but the machine just does not move at all when I play. You'd be fine with this setup.
This is my exact setup as well and I built a UAII out of 5/8 MDF. My cabinet is on a cement floor covered with a very very low pile berber carpet and my cabinet does not move. It's very very heavy. I don't think you will have any trouble with your cabinet on a hardwood floor unless your floor isn't perfectly level. just put a mat under the cabinet, it won't move at all trust me.
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Yeah I've been out looking more, and it seems I'll end up getting that non-locking casters that happ carries since they're about the same price as any equivilant wheels at hardware stores around me.
I'm having the computer access from the front most likely (in lieu of a coin door), so I shouldn't have to move it much at all anyways. Yeah, I know. No coin door, blasphemous. Too much money for me to spend on something just for looks. I have a jamma cab that has a 4 way coin door that works, good enough for me. I'd rather spend the extra on some nice LIGHT plywood ;)