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Be careful when moving your arcade machine. TRUST ME ON THIS!
boogieman:
Oh what fun things I get myself into! I had a soul edge cabinet, a really big one with a 27" monitor. Anyways, I decided it was too big for my living room, so decided I would like to swap out the internals into a gutted (not by me) virtual fighter cabinet. So, I decided to take it to the garage. Now my house has a wheelchair ramp (for the previous occupants) instead of stairs, so I figured this would be an easy job. Problem is at the bottom of the ramp is just grass, no sidewalk. So i decided to put some 2x4 lumber there to push the 2 wheel dolly on. It's a bit hard to describe, but basically, there is a little ditch there with about a 18" rise to the road. I was going to push the arcade machine on the road around to my garage. Anyway this is where the fun starts!
I get down the ramp and onto the wood. My wife was moving the lumber in front of me so I wouldn't sink into the ground (it's rained recently and is soft). I get the machine to the top of the ditch just ready to get on the road. One wheel of the dolly dropped of first and all hell broke loose. The game starts tipping. I try to save it and have enough time to think OH S##T THIS IS GONNA HURT, I WONDER HOW HEAVY IT IS? Then WHAM!!! the machine spins/tips down the 18" rise and slams into my left shoulder/arm/neck/ area. It also hits my left shin in a place I had previously hurt it.
Well, the cabinet EXPLODED into about 5 million pieces, the monitor was slammed into me and I have no idea if it still works. It hurt like hell and really felt like someone body slammed the whole arcade machine onto me. I couldn't move for a while and of course my wife sees the whole thing (why is that always the case? Wives always see the dumb stuff lol). She was really freaked out. Anyways, I am OK but my shoulder is really sore/swollen.
YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE CABINET! It looked like a semi ran into it. :banghead: The cabinet I had a real neat shape, the monitor was in a little "box" part on front of the cabinet, that box part ended up on top of me lol.
Then while still hurting very bad, I had to unwire a bunch of stuff so I could separate the components. Luckily my wife was there to help carry misc parts to the garage.
Anyway, be careful with those dang cabinets, I think they are out to kill me lol ;D
ChadTower:
Ow.
Gotta strap it to the dolly, man. Strap it down. And use plywood for temp flooring!
Glad to see you're not injured.
Ginsu Victim:
You can't make a thread like this without pics. :pics
ratzz:
NIGHTMARE!
What hurts more now, your shoulder or your broken heart ... :(
CrazyKongFan:
--- Quote from: boogieman on September 16, 2008, 11:42:22 am ---YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE CABINET! It looked like a semi ran into it. :banghead: The cabinet I had a real neat shape, the monitor was in a little "box" part on front of the cabinet, that box part ended up on top of me lol.
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Did it look anything like George's Frogger cabinet after the truck smashed it on Seinfeld? ;D
Anyway, sorry to hear your loss...hopefully at least the monitor survived. It's amazing how heavy that stuff is. When I got my gutted former Robotron cab, it had nothing of any weight in it except the power supply, and it still weighed a ton. I couldn't imagine lifting that thing up into and down out of a pickup truck if it'd been a complete game.
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