12-20-2023, 08:42 PM
It's here!!
And there it is!
And here it is with the marquee all loaded in,
You might notice the monitor frame sitting in there kind of strangely. And this is another point of discussion with something first good to note. This 27" monitor frame, when we had sitting in just resting in it's position you see above, we attempted to put the back shell of the cab on and... It smacked the rear of the frame.
We had thought the frame was too long. But today I was looking at something else and got curious. I looked at the monitor frame and thought.. Oh.. Looked over at the rear panel.. We totally had it upside down!! So the monitor frame clears fine, showing here:
I wanted to note this, since I prolly won't be the only one who makes this mistake
but we got that sorted!
Next up issue. The reason the frame is just sort of oddly resting there, is due to the fact.. We're missing a bracket. This cab may take all US/Imperial Standard hardware, but it's monitor does not mount directly to the "Dog Ears" of the monitor frame like most other cabs in this country.
Normally on US made cabs, at least wood ones to my limited knowledge (by way of only what I've seen) this would be a completely flat area, with the center cut out, of wood, and you bolt the frame to this, in the spots marked in pink.
This cab however requires the following, and I've nabbed this perfect photo from a video of a guy putting an LCD in this cab, so you can see the brackets:
image.png (Size: 447.35 KB / Downloads: 65)
Goldish in color, are the alodine (or whatever brand of the same chemical) coated brackets we need to mount ours. Looking at crap loads of monitors online, I saw that this wasn't some specific thing to this cab. Matching them up visually from low-rez photos, so some holes may need to become slotted for minor adjustment being that everyone's tolerances are different but check these out for reference:
5bc8f2552e41422cb688a8b695da9084.png (Size: 149.34 KB / Downloads: 64)
img_4097-jpg.png (Size: 664.41 KB / Downloads: 66)
I reached out to a lot of different operators to see if anyone had these. The previous owner has no clue what he did with the old frame, said it was warped and no idea. So we'll see who can come up with what, but this really eased my mind in terms of how difficult this part would be to find!
With all that said, the CPO will be here tomorrow and we get to go back into more artwork reproduction talk!! Only with a Soul Calibur 2 twist!
First off the card reader decals. We're having these re-done but in blue instead of red:
Then doing the Namco logo up here but in Blue,
From this pic we were finally able to find some more stuff we're missing:
1108984894.jpg (Size: 10.74 KB / Downloads: 63)
The left door is for a bill acceptor, and the center is the card reader dispenser. Ours are also bare so we're recreating these, again in blue instead of red.
We know what the card dispenser says from this image:
The bill changer is a tougher one.. Just google 'Tekken 5 Dedicated Arcade Machine (Or Cab)' and see for yourself how many variations you're going to get.
This is the closest I can find so far, but has a sticker over the factory one,
bill acceptor cover up.JPG (Size: 17.65 KB / Downloads: 65)
This for example, doesn't even have the 3 door option! I say option, but due to an extreme lack of documentation, we have zero evidence in reality of how any of this was handled.
But a great example!
If you look at the arcade flyer in a previous post, you wont see any decals at all. Which makes sense, you would most likely have a decal kit. Just due to the versatile nature of this business.
So those are the next bits of decals being done.
Going to start prepping the control panel tonight. Have a crap load of hardware ordered because we're missing 80% of the bolts and the other 20% are suuuuper rusty.
Excited for the next update on this one! Things starting to fall into place!
And there it is!
And here it is with the marquee all loaded in,
You might notice the monitor frame sitting in there kind of strangely. And this is another point of discussion with something first good to note. This 27" monitor frame, when we had sitting in just resting in it's position you see above, we attempted to put the back shell of the cab on and... It smacked the rear of the frame.
We had thought the frame was too long. But today I was looking at something else and got curious. I looked at the monitor frame and thought.. Oh.. Looked over at the rear panel.. We totally had it upside down!! So the monitor frame clears fine, showing here:
I wanted to note this, since I prolly won't be the only one who makes this mistake
but we got that sorted!Next up issue. The reason the frame is just sort of oddly resting there, is due to the fact.. We're missing a bracket. This cab may take all US/Imperial Standard hardware, but it's monitor does not mount directly to the "Dog Ears" of the monitor frame like most other cabs in this country.
Normally on US made cabs, at least wood ones to my limited knowledge (by way of only what I've seen) this would be a completely flat area, with the center cut out, of wood, and you bolt the frame to this, in the spots marked in pink.
This cab however requires the following, and I've nabbed this perfect photo from a video of a guy putting an LCD in this cab, so you can see the brackets:
image.png (Size: 447.35 KB / Downloads: 65)
Goldish in color, are the alodine (or whatever brand of the same chemical) coated brackets we need to mount ours. Looking at crap loads of monitors online, I saw that this wasn't some specific thing to this cab. Matching them up visually from low-rez photos, so some holes may need to become slotted for minor adjustment being that everyone's tolerances are different but check these out for reference:
5bc8f2552e41422cb688a8b695da9084.png (Size: 149.34 KB / Downloads: 64)
img_4097-jpg.png (Size: 664.41 KB / Downloads: 66)
I reached out to a lot of different operators to see if anyone had these. The previous owner has no clue what he did with the old frame, said it was warped and no idea. So we'll see who can come up with what, but this really eased my mind in terms of how difficult this part would be to find!
With all that said, the CPO will be here tomorrow and we get to go back into more artwork reproduction talk!! Only with a Soul Calibur 2 twist!
First off the card reader decals. We're having these re-done but in blue instead of red:
Then doing the Namco logo up here but in Blue,
From this pic we were finally able to find some more stuff we're missing:
1108984894.jpg (Size: 10.74 KB / Downloads: 63)
The left door is for a bill acceptor, and the center is the card reader dispenser. Ours are also bare so we're recreating these, again in blue instead of red.
We know what the card dispenser says from this image:
The bill changer is a tougher one.. Just google 'Tekken 5 Dedicated Arcade Machine (Or Cab)' and see for yourself how many variations you're going to get.
This is the closest I can find so far, but has a sticker over the factory one,
bill acceptor cover up.JPG (Size: 17.65 KB / Downloads: 65)
This for example, doesn't even have the 3 door option! I say option, but due to an extreme lack of documentation, we have zero evidence in reality of how any of this was handled.
But a great example!
If you look at the arcade flyer in a previous post, you wont see any decals at all. Which makes sense, you would most likely have a decal kit. Just due to the versatile nature of this business.
So those are the next bits of decals being done.
Going to start prepping the control panel tonight. Have a crap load of hardware ordered because we're missing 80% of the bolts and the other 20% are suuuuper rusty.
Excited for the next update on this one! Things starting to fall into place!
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