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My Donkey Kong restoration
More Cowbell:
Just a quick summary of the expenses that went into this cab project. They're round numbers but they include things like shipping and tax. The cab cost also includes the fact that I sold the control panel for $11. Of the 4 or 5 restorations I have done, this was the most expensive. Obviously, it needed a lot of work though.
Cab 30
Gas 11
Monitor 40
Encoder 23
Joystick 17
Buttons 4
Light/P Strip 12
Sideart 45
Speakers 8
Coin Door 34
Paint 16
Bezel/Glass 35
T-Mold 13
Marquee 22
CPO 30
Total 340
Edit - Cut and paste from Excel which is why the numbers came out all wavy.
Jeff AMN:
--- Quote from: More Cowbell on April 05, 2007, 12:32:29 pm ---Just a quick summary of the expenses that went into this cab project. They're round numbers but they include things like shipping and tax. The cab cost also includes the fact that I sold the control panel for $11. Of the 4 or 5 restorations I have done, this was the most expensive. Obviously, it needed a lot of work though.
Cab 30
Gas 11
Monitor 40
Encoder 23
Joystick 17
Buttons 4
Light/P Strip 12
Sideart 45
Speakers 8
Coin Door 34
Paint 16
Bezel/Glass 35
T-Mold 13
Marquee 22
CPO 30
Total 340
Edit - Cut and paste from Excel which is why the numbers came out all wavy.
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Man, $340 is a price I'd easily pay for a Donkey Kong in that condition. Just today I had my eye on a DK cab and it's at $800. I think I'm going to find a beat up one and go the restoration route. Nice work.
If you ever choose to sell it (shame on you if you do), please let us know what you get for it.
Chris G:
Wow, I didn't know you could get even an older monitor that cheap.
More Cowbell:
Remember, I'm running MAME in this cab so it saves on the costs since I got a ton of older computers for free on freecycle and a 19 to 21" monitor goes for $40 bucks or so on craigslist. I'm just running the DK games on it though. I still have the monitor that came in the cab but I'm not sure if it works as I have no way to test it.
ChadTower:
If you wait for the opportunity, rather than grabbing one when you actually need it, monitors can be had from Freecycle pretty often. I have a 27" RGB monitor I got from Freecycle that had barely been used at all and came with a secure heavy duty shipping crate that was probably worth $200+ alone.