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Be careful when moving your arcade machine. TRUST ME ON THIS!

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Ummon:

--- Quote from: Peale on September 16, 2008, 01:18:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 16, 2008, 11:51:24 am ---Ow.

Gotta strap it to the dolly, man.  Strap it down.  And use plywood for temp flooring!

Glad to see you're not injured.

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I was going to say this exactly.  You should have used plywood at the very least instead of a very narrow 2x4, and you should have strapped it down.

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Yeah, that's like Laurel and Hardy stuff.

CrazyKongFan:

--- Quote from: Ummon on September 17, 2008, 11:42:42 pm ---Yeah, that's like Laurel and Hardy stuff.

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Hardy: Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten me into!
Laurel (squeaky voiced and crying): Well I couldn't help it

TCM showed a 24 hour marathon of them the other day...I'd forgotten how funny they were ;) :laugh2:

M.Lanza:
I came pretty close to arcade destriction twice yesterday.

I'm moving out of state and just got the truck yesterday and started loading stuff.
The mame cab was the first to be loaded since it's the biggest and heavest thing I own.
Loading everything myself and using a very cheap handtruck do not make for a good combination.

Don't go cheap on the handtruck. It's not worth it to save 10 or 20 dollars on somthing
to move large, heavy, and expensive objects.

I may have thought I was saving money when I bought it, but a 10 minute operation with little trouble
turned into 45 minutes of fear and many close calls.


The second instance came when I had to carry the megatouch from the table it was sitting on
in the house to the truck 30 feet away. The megatouch may be small, but it's much heavier than it looks.
My strength gave out and I dropped it while I was setting it down about an inch above where I planned
on putting it. I got lucky.

I'll have help when I get to my destination, which is great because I don't think I could manage to
lift this thing by myself again without incurring a major back injury.


nipsmg:
Another moving tip:  Make sure that if you put casters on your cabinet as an afterthought that you properly secure the bottom panel of your cabinet.

Loaded it in the moving van, went over speed bump.

after I opened the back, I found that the bottom panel of the cabinet had shot up through the rest of the cabinet, splitting the sides off, destroying the PC inside, and making the whole cabinet insalvagable....   I didn't design the base panel to hold all the weight, as it originally just sat on the floor, and shared the weight with the 2 side and front/back panels.  I never reinforced it (like an amateur/idiot).


It took another 2 years before I built another cabinet (at least I had all the parts).

RIP Arcadia (http://arcadia.gerety.net)

ChadTower:

And make sure if you use the angle mounted rear caster method that you are strong enough to stop the cab from rolling away from you.  Twice I've seen guys lean the cab back and then watch it slam to the ground because the bottom shot forward and they couldn't stop it.

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