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Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: Hoagie_one on December 03, 2004, 09:14:44 am

Title: where's the cheapest place i can get a cocktail cabinet
Post by: Hoagie_one on December 03, 2004, 09:14:44 am

new or used is fine, kits are fine too.

Just need an empty cabinet.

IF anyone is michigan has one, id be willing to deal.

Midway style prefered

Title: Re: where's the cheapest place i can get a cocktail cabinet
Post by: fredster on December 03, 2004, 10:19:01 am

At an arcade auction. www.gameroommagazine.com/shows

Title: Re: where's the cheapest place i can get a cocktail cabinet
Post by: JoyMonkey on December 03, 2004, 10:26:23 am

I've used a couple of Arcade Depot (http://arcadedepot.com)'s Midway style kits in the past, they turned out beautifully too. They take an hour or two to put together. They're  a little more expensive now than when I bought from them, but I think the end result is well worth it.

Title: Re: where's the cheapest place i can get a cocktail cabinet
Post by: fredster on December 03, 2004, 10:39:26 am

JoyMonkey,

Did they have the glass and clips?  Did it have the metal CP with it?

Title: Re: where's the cheapest place i can get a cocktail cabinet
Post by: JoyMonkey on December 03, 2004, 10:46:10 am

I got the clips and metal control panels from them, they drilled the control panels to a drawing I gave them and they worked out fine.
At the time, they didn't do glass, but they have it now for $95. I got a local glass company to make the tempered glass for me for $70. I got monitor bezels from someplace else, but ArcadeDepot has them now precut for $17.

Title: Re: where's the cheapest place i can get a cocktail cabinet
Post by: Hoagie_one on December 03, 2004, 01:28:18 pm

do you have to buy the CP's separately from the kits?

it seems that way

Title: Re: where's the cheapest place i can get a cocktail cabinet
Post by: JoyMonkey on December 03, 2004, 01:36:08 pm

I think so. If I was getting another one, I'd just make the panels myself- it's just a piece of aluminum with three bends and the appropriate holes punched in it, sanded and sprayed black.

Title: Re: where's the cheapest place i can get a cocktail cabinet
Post by: MameMaster! on December 03, 2004, 04:51:59 pm

...I used them too....very happy with the results!....fast shipping....(but they were a little sloppy and made a few mistakes that they corrected).

Overall....great quality, good service ....very happy customer!

MameMaster!
PS- I'm going to post pics soon by the way (in projects) as I just rebuilt my cocktail cab over the last two weekends!