Missile Command owners! I need some help!

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A friend found a cockpit Missile Command, and I'm going to be going down south to help him move it out of the persons house. The issue is we are being told it will have to be completely taken apart to get it out.

I'm just trying to figure out if the cockpit broke down into halves, or if it broke down at all. Or if it can even be disassembled and reassembled without damaging the cabinet etc... So if the person we are getting it from means take it apart as in like it's supposed to be or going crazy with it.

Thanks!
 
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A friend found a cockpit Missile Command, and I'm going to be going down south to help him move it out of the persons house. The issue is we are being told it will have to be completely taken apart to get it out.

I'm just trying to figure out if the cockpit broke down into halves, or if it broke down at all. Or if it can even be disassembled and reassembled without damaging the cabinet etc.

You can take some parts off/out of it to make it lighter, but there is nothing that comes off/apart to make it smaller/narrower/shorter. To get it out of the place when I got mine, we had to not only take the door off, be we took off the entire door frame to get it out through the door. Even then we were just about scrapping the sides.

I've heard of people cutting EDOT's in half (which are even bigger than MC cockpits), I hope you don't have to do that. There is no inconsipuous place to cut an MC cockpit. That would be a shame. If they got it in there, you should be able to get it out, unless they built up after they got it in there (which was the case in my MC cockpit).

Good luck, let us know how it goes and take some pictures!
 
A friend found a cockpit Missile Command, and I'm going to be going down south to help him move it out of the persons house. The issue is we are being told it will have to be completely taken apart to get it out.

Yes, I agree...the house will have to be completely taken apart.
 
I have no clue, we get the address either today or Saturday... I'm hoping we can get it out without cutting it, if we have to we will... I'd rather us cut it with the intention of it going back together rather than going into a dumpster. Hopefully we can get it out and he's just saying take it apart because of the weight.

Btw, it's really my game I just didn't want to jinx myself, but I can't hold back my excitement. Not to mention the price we got it for...
 
So even more allure added to the game... The owner is a player (or was a player) for the Cincinnati Bengals! haha. He moved out of the house leaving the game. The cockpit will apparently not fit through the current door frame. Although I haven't saw it myself that is what the handed down story is.

God forbid but if we had to cut, any ideas on the best way to do it? Cutting will of course be the last resort since this is apparently a great condition cockpit. But I'd rather it be cut with the full intention of putting it back together than cut up and left on the curb.

Also for some reason I picture myself as Billy Idol cutting a sunroof into a Lamborghini with a saw like he did on Bam Margera's Lamborghini lol. Like I said though cutting will only be the absolute worst case scenario, I'll even offer to buy a new door frame if I think that will work.
 
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You can repair a door frame a lot easier than you can repair a Missile Command cockpit. Just saying....
 
Not too mention....once you cut that Missile Command......it will always be a cut in half Missile Command.

Edward
 
So even more allure added to the game... The owner is a player (or was a player) for the Cincinnati Bengals! haha. He moved out of the house leaving the game. The cockpit will apparently not fit through the current door frame. Although I haven't saw it myself that is what the handed down story is.

God forbid but if we had to cut, any ideas on the best way to do it? Cutting will of course be the last resort since this is apparently a great condition cockpit. But I'd rather it be cut with the full intention of putting it back together than cut up and left on the curb.

Cutting it really isn't an option. It's infamous Atari partical board; once that stuff crumbles, it's fscked. Plus, sawdust everywhere if you go that route.

If you want to take it out in parts, you'd have to strip the entire cabinet, then go at it with pry bars and hammers (pry from the insides, not in the sitting area) to break the glue supports and staples. The sides should make it through the doorway easy then. At least you'll have some hope of reassembling it, and if done right you might not even notice it.
 
Right, but I'm not sure how cooperative the new owners are going to be... they just want the game out. They don't really care about it at all I believe.

It also sounds like it's an expensive house so I don't want to be buying a very expensive door frame after we break one lol. But like I said cutting would just be a last resort.

Cutting it really isn't an option. It's infamous Atari partical board; once that stuff crumbles, it's fscked. Plus, sawdust everywhere if you go that route.

If you want to take it out in parts, you'd have to strip the entire cabinet, then go at it with pry bars and hammers (pry from the insides, not in the sitting area) to break the glue supports and staples. The sides should make it through the doorway easy then. At least you'll have some hope of reassembling it, and if done right you might not even notice it.

Thanks this was what I was looking for. Like I said that would be a last resort we are going to try to bargain as much we can to avoid taking it apart.
 
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Offer the sellers repair work through a carpenter contract or something. Call up someone in the carpentry trades to tag along with, maybe they can help you move it as well as doing the repair on-site. I'm sure there are some laid-off tradespeople who like side jobs. Just a thought!
 
That is an option and something I've been considering but it's a multi million dollar house, a simple door frame could cost as much as my house depending on how the residence spent their money...
 
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