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Level42:
Looks like the monitors and all important stuff have been removed already

Knowing Chinese mentality and corruption, probably most of the monitors, PCB's and other parts  have been ripped out of the cabs and sold to other builders of pirate cabs :P

The only thing I feel sorry for are the candy's, but notice that these are the furthest away from the machine wracking them.....They could get good money from it.

Malenko:

--- Quote from: WunderCade on July 21, 2007, 05:12:41 pm ---What I notice in that photo is that 'blue' is a universally over-used color for arcade machines and not just in the BYOAC community. :)

--- End quote ---

if it makes you feel better, I painted my Pengo Cabinet Black

stuckpixel:
Eh, anything remotely usable I throw up on craigslist for free or dirt cheap.

Though, it is true, so much stuff gets thrown away it's amazing. I've never been a dumpster diver myself but I have a few friends who have been _very_ successful with it.

Havok:

--- Quote from: stuckpixel on July 22, 2007, 09:46:12 am ---Americans will buy your garbage china!

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Sadly, we already do this way too much...

Barry Barcrest:
Thing is i imagine there is no market for those cabs over there. Shipping costs to the U.S. probably make it not worth while hence it's easier to scrap them. It's like when the arcade boom time was over in the U.K. machines were just skipped because there was no market for old cabs as there were so many being disposed of daily to make way for newer cabs. It was cheaper to skip them than store them to try and sell on...I got offered an original working space invaders cab for £25 around 1992 but i had no trasport so the guy just skipped it, no one wanted it. The majority of chinese don't have many luxuries and i can't see a mame cab being on the list. It is sad but thats the way it is.

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