My first cabinet

[deadkenndys1105]

Well im 16 so cabinet hunting isnt that easy for me.  Well I have been trolling the paper and the net recently and I finaly got my own cabinet.  I got a near perfect millipede cabinet for only $260.  They guy just wanted to get rid of the thing.  It works perfect and the artwork only has zero scratches.  The trackball is a little rough but I be leave its the barrings.  I started to freak out thought because if it was a millimeter bigger it would have fit in the basement.

[ArtMAME]

NICE!!! 

Get yourself a 3" trackball rebuild kit from arcadeshop.com , it will make the trackball roll nice and smooth... best $20 you will ever spend...

Congrats on the score 

[CheffoJeffo]

Very nice!

And, yeah, do the rebuild kit ... you'll thank ArtMAME for it later.

Cheers

[tommy]

Cool find, with only a bad TB that's an easy fix.

Enjoy.

[deadkenndys1105]

I just replaced the bulb for the marquee.  The trackball mostly needed some WD-40.  Its all fine and dandy for the x-mas party.

[SuperGunGuru]

I just replaced the bulb for the marquee.  The trackball mostly needed some WD-40.  Its all fine and dandy for the x-mas party.

Just an FYI, but from what I've read, WD40 can gum up and that's not good for the trackball. I use 3 in 1 oil for my trackball games.

http://therealbobroberts.net/moretb.html

[barnes]

I'm 16 too! I feel your pain! Well good job getting your hands on one! Good luck with it.

[Level42]

Wow that cab is looking great ! Must have been in a very safe (private ?) place for all this time.
Congrats !!
It's cool to read young people interested into the classics   I just bought my first real classic (Galaxian) and I know how the exitement of finding and actualy scoring something like that feels. Even though I'm 39

I agree with SuperGunGuru about the WD40.

[deadkenndys1105]

Ill have to remember that. I can already feel that the trackball isn't spinning like when I just put the wd-40 on.   Well there are to holes in the right side so i think it was chained between a another cabinet and a wall.  Im not sure though because there isnt any scratches in the glass or the CP.  The guy I got it from new next to nothing about it.  All he did was play it.  He didn't know what the DIP switches were.    At first I thought he was like me and just liked throwing money into the machine.  All the locks were of and in the cash box.  The only lock still on the thing was the one that kept the back on.

[RayB]

That's a VERY NICE machine!

Now if you'd just chop about 12 inches off that "roof" you have on your mame, the two will look nice side by side. 

[deadkenndys1105]

Its not as bad in person but it does need to be cut.  It made the back part of the cabinet kinda big because I keep stuff in it also.

[davieboynj]

I just replaced the bulb for the marquee.  The trackball mostly needed some WD-40.  Its all fine and dandy for the x-mas party.

wd40 IS the devil.

teflon lube is nice, and plays well with just about everything.

[gnateye]

im not sure which is stranger that your sixteen and your into classic arcade games or that yoru sixteen and like the dead kennedies

both definitely before your time, long before it

i remember back before your were born scribbling the DK logo on my school books.... ah the 80's.....

well, keep on rockin it my friend!

[deadkenndys1105]

I know I don't fit in with my time.  Im a collector of classic game systems and don't understand half the populer treds today.  I saw the kennedys live around this time last year in the one gum wraper they called a club.