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Arcade Lifestyle / <3 my MK2 cab [new cab working yeah!!]
« on: November 12, 2012, 08:16:30 PM »
I want to dedicate this topic to my MK2 cab. It is my 1st and only cab ATM.
I never had the space at home, but this year my girl and I bought a house with a pretty large attic. This would become my hobby room. While our house was being build, I found a MK2 cab on Marktplaats, for a really good price. Fortunatelly, my friend has a big house so we drove to the seller with his van.
And there it was:
I was so thrilled, I actually lost the 1st game I played against the seller playing with Baraka (that never happens
). Now we had to move it, but it is huge and very heavy. I didn't take pictures at this point 
, but we got it to my friends house at the end. This was in January, my house wasn't ready untill the end of April.
Because the cab is so big and the fact it needed to go up 2 stairs, I decided to hire o professional moving firm. A guy came looking at the cab and my stairs and his conclusion was that it would fit. He didn't measure anything, but he was convinced it would fit. But.....
it didn´t fit
The movers returned the cab to my friends house and we needed to take it apart.
In the meanwhile, I had the idea to find someone who could put a piece on my wall. Together we came up with this
A couple of weeks ago, my friend and I finally had enough guts to take it apart
We found a couple of these inside
love it
And we put it back togheter
It works !!! (no that's not me in the picture)
Now I'm cleaning it up
The following needs to be done:
- T molding
- Joystick
- new white buttons and one blue button (burnmarks)
- new things to hold marquee and glass (don't know the name)
- put some black paint on the edges on the back side
- maybe new plexiglass on the control panel (burnmarks)
- replace the locks
- fix the left coin input
i will put more pictures here of the process, this is it for now
I never had the space at home, but this year my girl and I bought a house with a pretty large attic. This would become my hobby room. While our house was being build, I found a MK2 cab on Marktplaats, for a really good price. Fortunatelly, my friend has a big house so we drove to the seller with his van.
And there it was:
I was so thrilled, I actually lost the 1st game I played against the seller playing with Baraka (that never happens
). Now we had to move it, but it is huge and very heavy. I didn't take pictures at this point , but we got it to my friends house at the end. This was in January, my house wasn't ready untill the end of April.Because the cab is so big and the fact it needed to go up 2 stairs, I decided to hire o professional moving firm. A guy came looking at the cab and my stairs and his conclusion was that it would fit. He didn't measure anything, but he was convinced it would fit. But.....
it didn´t fit
The movers returned the cab to my friends house and we needed to take it apart.
In the meanwhile, I had the idea to find someone who could put a piece on my wall. Together we came up with this
A couple of weeks ago, my friend and I finally had enough guts to take it apart
We found a couple of these inside
love it
And we put it back togheter
It works !!! (no that's not me in the picture)
Now I'm cleaning it up
The following needs to be done:
- T molding
- Joystick
- new white buttons and one blue button (burnmarks)
- new things to hold marquee and glass (don't know the name)
- put some black paint on the edges on the back side
- maybe new plexiglass on the control panel (burnmarks)
- replace the locks
- fix the left coin input
i will put more pictures here of the process, this is it for now
) and putting it back in place, the issue returned