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RayB:
Midway cabs have 2 wheels recessed on the back and positioned so they only touch the ground when you tilt the cabinet back. You can wheel it around tilted, then when in place stand it back up on it's 4 legs.

NoOne=NBA=:

--- Quote from: RayB on January 28, 2005, 01:15:25 pm ---Midway cabs have 2 wheels recessed on the back and positioned so they only touch the ground when you tilt the cabinet back. You can wheel it around tilted, then when in place stand it back up on it's 4 legs.
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I THOUGHT about doing that design, but then it occurred to me that it is not overly functional in a home environment.
You are putting your cab against the wall, correct?
How do you tilt the cab BACKWARDS while it's against the wall.

If I have to go get a handtruck ANYWAY, when I want to move it, why put ANY wheels on it?
My solution to that dilemma was FOUR wheels.

quarterback:

--- Quote from: RayB on January 28, 2005, 01:15:25 pm ---Midway cabs have 2 wheels recessed on the back and positioned so they only touch the ground when you tilt the cabinet back. You can wheel it around tilted, then when in place stand it back up on it's 4 legs.
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Yeah, I thought about that.  When I my cab up at auction I saw that some cabs had those wheels and mine didn't... I was jealous but had some help moving mine.

I'm contemplating doing that in addition to the 4 on the bottom for the reasons that NoOne=NBA= mentions.  Getting the cab away from the wall and minor readjustments via the bottom 4, but anything else I could use the back 2.  I've got a handtruck but it might be easier if the cab had the back wheels. 

I don't know, this is all still in the planning stages for me.  I've got a Konami cab that has some water damage at the bottom.  My eventual plan is to build a 'base' (with wheels) and then cut off the bottom of the cab and replace it with my new base. 

NoOne=NBA=:
Another idea that I had was to have leg levellers that came up completely through the floor of the cab.

My idea was to take metal plates, bore a hole through them that was larger than the diameter of the threads on the bolts, weld a nut to the plate, screw the leg levellers through that nut.

Once that was done, I was planning on boring holes through the bottom of the cabinet that were large enough to let a nut, welded to the end of the leg leveller bolt, stick up through the floor of the cab.
That would allow the leg levellers to be lowered from inside the cabinet.

I rejected this idea for two reasons.
First it would have required alot of extra work to implement.
Second, the only access to the inside of my cab is through the coin door.
Not exactly somewhere I am excited about trying to crawl through.

This idea would work perfectly for a cab that has a front access door on it though.

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