Maybe a cabinet for down range and fire pit

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I have an Astron Belt cabinet that I had to put back together a while back. I bought it with Choplifter installed. The cabinet is painted black. Missing the coin door. Has the cashbox trim/box. Choplifter PCB seems to be a boot leg. I picked up a working Sega CL board a while back. Monitor has some burn. I don't like the cabinet - too heavy and deep. My plan tomorrow is to strip it and check to see if there is any side art under the paint (I don't think there is). If it has side art, that changes my thoughts a bit - but not much. I plan to video it's destruction if that is where it goes. :)

I am keeping the Astron Belt CP/stick, monitor, coin door/box, CL marquee,etc. All that will be left is a shell.

Then I will dispose of it in a fun way if no one wants it. Anyone local have any interest if I decide not to kill it off?
 
i have an Astron Belt that's been converted to a Cabal... i picked it up to throw my trackball Rampart board into, but yeah, it's a stupidly deep and heavy cabinet. i thought the side art might be salvageable from under a layer of wood-grain vinyl but no, they peel off together and usually take some of the cabinet with it.

i've got a nice converted MKII cab that i may end up putting the Rampart in (so i can have 3 players!) and now this piece of crap is probably superfluous and will be scrapped unless someone local wants it.

i thought for a few moments about turning it back into AB but then i played a working cab at Funspot and wow, what a dog of a game. not worth the effort.
 
Have you tried carefully stripping off the paint? Astron Belt had some awesome side art and it would still be fitting for any kind of space flight game. If you can salvage the art, keep the cab and drop a Galaxian or multi board in it or something. If not... Ammonium Nitrate and Diesel fuel? Or you could take it up a few stories, then bring it down at 9.8 m/s^2. Make sure to video either!
 
Have you tried carefully stripping off the paint? Astron Belt had some awesome side art and it would still be fitting for any kind of space flight game. If you can salvage the art, keep the cab and drop a Galaxian or multi board in it or something. If not... Ammonium Nitrate and Diesel fuel? Or you could take it up a few stories, then bring it down at 9.8 m/s^2. Make sure to video either!

I will see if it has art (I know it is cool). I don't think it does, though. I am thinking 7.62 and 5.56 at night with some tracers.

Then more in the morning (pistols and shotguns) and then the fire pit and Bye Bye cabinet. :)

All will be video'd.
 
I wish I lived closer... I've got a .40 that leaves a pretty good sized hole.

Yes. I have some of those pistols as well. You would be welcome. :)

I keep these in for Personal Protection:

http://www.winchester.com/Products/handgun-ammunition/supreme-elite/bonded-pdx1/Pages/S40SWPDB.aspx

I may move to the 180 grain from the 165 grain.

I retrieved some I shot into a Granger catalog (it was thicker than any phone book I have shot). The shot went over 3/4 into the catalog and one was about the size of a quarter where I found it.
 
pretty

Pretty cabinet:

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Poor thing.
 
I also own a Choplifter in an Astron Belt and I love it. I saw Choplifter in many locations BITD, and they were nearly always in converted A.B. or MACH 3 uprights. When an A.B. to Choplifter conversion showed up at an auction near me (with full A.B. side art, stick, and c.p.o.), I quickly grabbed it up.

Yes, it's deep and awkward, but it never struck me as unusually heavy. My Mousetrap seems much heavier, as does most Atari cabs (Centipede, Pole Position etc.)

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Kyle :cool:
 
Yes, it's deep and awkward, but it never struck me as unusually heavy. My Mousetrap seems much heavier, as does most Atari cabs (Centipede, Pole Position etc.)

Definitely heavier than Centipede. Of course moving it with the Laser disk player in it adds to the weight. That thing alone must have been 50 lbs.
 
The control panel and stick go nicely with choplifter, but the side art doesn't really seem fitting. Space battle vs. Attack helicopter?

As for the weight, I had an AB once. I remember mine being heavy but not that bad. It's probably all that extra ply they put in there to make the sliding shelf for the LD player. The mass was pretty low and centered, so I don't remember it being all that hard to move around. With my NBA Jam (Neo Geo converstion) cab, I can't even get the thing onto it's back wheels without some help. That control panel is just so large and the cab so deep that it requires a little more leverage than I can manage from the back of it.
 
Cabinet has a reprieve for now. I didn't realize it was so common to convert an AB to a C. Walked by it a few times today and don't know that I can follow through with stripping it. I can work with the cabinet. I think I am convinced - at least for now.
 
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Cabinet has a reprieve for now. I didn't realize it was so common to convert an AB to a C. Walked by it a few times today and don't know that I can follow through with stripping it. I can work with the cabinet. I think I am convinced - at least for now.

YAY!! Someone called the governor!!
 
YAY!! Someone called the governor!!
Excellent! Glad to hear it is being saved. I restored a Galaxy Ranger from a Choplifter conversion and still have a bit of the wiring harness left over. Of course, I also have the Choplifter boardset and wiring harness too, if anyone is interested in that.

Scott C.
 
I'm telling you, Bally did a sweet job with that cab... If only Sega had done 1/10 as good a job on the game, it would have been a classic.
 
I'm telling you, Bally did a sweet job with that cab... If only Sega had done 1/10 as good a job on the game, it would have been a classic.

I guess it had to be so deep because of the LD player size? I don't recall ever seeing one of the players used in AB unless it is this model. I have one of them and it works. It is a tank. I have the chunky wired remote, too. I have a couple of AB laserdiscs as well. Some great explosions. :)

Guess if I found a board set and harness for PCB and LD (or made them) I could deconvert. Not worth the trouble unless this stuff happens to pop up.
 
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I guess it had to be so deep because of the LD player size? I don't recall ever seeing one of the players used in AB unless it is this model. I have one of them and it works. It is a tank. I have the chunky wired remote, too. I have a couple of AB laserdiscs as well. Some great explosions. :)

Guess if I found a board set and harness for PCB and LD (or made them) I could deconvert. Not worth the trouble unless this stuff happens to pop up.

You have the LD player?!? Wow, So all you need is the PCB and Wiring? I say deconvert!!
 
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