Crown candy cab round two

Raven

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So I was moving games up to my new building today....The right rear caster got trapped in the break of my tailgate, and the cab basically came apart! The entire bottom came off, and the rest is now very unstable. Guess I know what the next project is.

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Got all of the parts stripped off and started screwing it together nice and solid. I'll need to cut some new braces to go in there, but should be pretty easy. These are the poorest build quality of any cab I've ever seen. The monitor doesn't even have a frame! This thing is nothing but cheap pressboard and staples. I should have done this when I was working on the first one, but I was lazy. It'll be rock-solid when I'm done though.

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show us some pics we always like pics. but that does really suck what happened tho:(
 
Yeah, I have pics I need to upload. I got out there tonight and added in a bunch of metal braces to tighten everything up nice and solid. Next will be the wood filler and primer. The plastics are still a filthy mess too.

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It is now all braced up and ready to go. I actually have added more brackets than what is shown, plus more screws to the monitor supports. I screwed the monitor into place (it wasn't really before!), but it will come back out when I paint. I just didn't like it sitting around the floor of the shop with no protection.
 
I always thought the candy cabs were all plastic. but now I see all of them arent
 
I always thought the candy cabs were all plastic. but now I see all of them arent

I have several candy cabs, and they are very different. You can see my only plastic one in the background of one picture. That's a Chinese OK Baby cab. I also have 3 Japanese Super Neo 29s, which are all metal. These 2 press board Korean Crown Cady cabs, and one woodgrain solid OSB former gambling cab....which is now a PC-10.
 
I got the wood putty work finished the other night, and got out there tonight to start the painting. I covered the outside with Killz Plus primer/sealer and painted the inside with a coat of regular latex paint. It was a cheap can of mistint from Home Depot, but I like the color (midnight blue). It'll work great inside a cab like this. actually, I considered painting the outside with it too, but I already have a dark candy cab. I'm thinking of doing this one white, trimmed in two shades of blue, but I'm still not sure.
 
I always thought the candy cabs were all plastic. but now I see all of them arent

Most of the Japanese cabs are plastic/metal with a few exceptions. The capcom q-25 is mostly wood with a plastic facade, but that thing is built like a tank.

The crowin case cabs are extremely cheap Korean brand. I remember the one I had being extremely flimsy, had to reinforce the monitor support area with some metal brackets. You might want to do that, Raven.

Just put some L brackets underneath those little wood blocks that the monitor frame sits on
 
I put about a dozen wood screws through the monitor supports. You can also see in the pics the angle brackets I put in everywhere. This thing should be pretty rock solid in the end.

I spent this evening cleaning the filthy plastics from the cab. I'm getting it ready for paint.....now I just need to figure out the color scheme.
 
candies are usually white, so why not white?

Well, its boring for one thing. Also, these come from the factory raw, covered in cheap grey vinyl. I actually am planning on painting this one white (decided today), but trimmed in blue.
 
Sitting primed, ready to go.
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First coat is on (white semi-gloss):

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I had some paint still in the sprayer, so I slapped a test coat on my OK Baby cab to see what it might look like. I didn't prep it at all, so it's going to have to come back off before I do it for real.

I also learned a lesson in painting tonight. I bought an electric power painter recently, so I thought I'd try it out on a cab....didn't do too well. It works fine on a textured wall, but looked like crap on this pressboard cab, so that one side will have to be completely redone after it dries. :mad:
 
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Oh, and the real name for these cabs is a Samducksa CWC-201. Just in case anybody cares......
 
Yep. I've got one myself. I had to order some buttons for it from a guy on Shoryuken.com, I can't remember his name. etokki i think?

I don't mind the cab. I know it's a knockoff but it's works for me.
 
You know, I don't consider it a knock off. It's just a Korean candy and not a Japanese candy. I actually like them too. I'm American, I'm used to "wood" cabs, but these are poorly built. I'm just doing what should have been done from the factory.

Tonight was spent sanding the first coat down and touching up some wood filler where there used to be a big hole in the side. Since this used to be one a conjoined pair, it had a big ass hole drilled through it for a piece of conduit to run between them. I actually did NOT fill in the hole on the first one because I may utilize it for a power switch location.

I am not doing much else to refinish the back of the cab. It's rough around the door perimeter, and will stay that way. I see no real reason to spend a lot of time on it when it'll be against a wall. It's going to get enough coats of paint to be tough and sturdy, but no more wood filler or sanding.

Once the outside has all of it's coats of white (probably 3 semi-gloss and two gloss), then I'll repaint the inside again. In fact, I think I'll start blacking the inside of all of my cabs when I repaint them. It makes it look nice and clean and neat.
 
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Sanded down, second coat of semi-gloss on, first coat of gloss, and painted the coin vault/front doors.
 
More gloss, second coat on the doors.......damn I'm sick of white paint.
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Right now I'm planning on painting the monitor surround and CP upper panel royal blue, and the rest of the plastics gloss white to match the cab. I don't want to simply repeat the other one's paint job with just a different color palette. I haven't decided about the speaker box face yet. I do know that I want to cut a new plexi panel and make some sort of marquee to go in there. I'm also planning on putting a light up in there (which it did not originally have).

Sure, it's no Discs of Tron, but I'm digging it!
 
Raven, what kind of buttons are on that cab? Are they the Samducksa buttons, or did you just put standard ones like seimitsu or whatever?

And what about sticks?
 
It's got regular HAPPs in it right now. I have a pair of Sanwa sticks, but haven't decided if I really want to make another new CP insert for it. The round corners make it a pain in the butt to shape and fit.
 
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