Moving a Centipede

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So I need to move my Centipede down into the basement. I can't use a hand-truck, because there's a right-angle turn on the stairs, and the landing's too small to allow me to turn the game.

My wife and I moved my DK, Jr, and Defender down without any trouble, but I can't figure out any good way to grip hold of the Centipede cabinet.

Any suggestions?

-Jim
 
lay it on it's back....carefully slide it down the steps, then upright it once you get to the landing. Repeat for next group of steps. Be very careful, Centi is A LOT heavier than your standard nintendo cabs... very different material used.

If necessary, you can take out the monitor to lighten up the cabinet but it still will be heavier than nintendo cabs.

Good luck.
 
So I need to move my Centipede down into the basement. I can't use a hand-truck, because there's a right-angle turn on the stairs, and the landing's too small to allow me to turn the game.

My wife and I moved my DK, Jr, and Defender down without any trouble, but I can't figure out any good way to grip hold of the Centipede cabinet.

Any suggestions?

-Jim

Hmm find a burly friend.. Take the monitor, bezel, power brick, and back door out. Maybe you'll be able to lift it and carry it down. If the landing can fit a
person you should be able to stand it up, spin it, and continue down the
next set of steps.

Got pics?
 
thats easy!

step 1: wrap it up real good.

step2: wait for my p.m. with my address

step 3: call navl for a pick-up

see how easy that was, your welcome.
 
Centi is A LOT heavier than your standard nintendo cabs... If necessary, you can take out the monitor to lighten up the cabinet

Yeah, I noticed when I originally unloaded it from my truck. I've pulled the monitor, door, and transformer block. I figure every lb helps.

I hate the stairs in my house. I don't even get a real landing where they turn, just two large triangle-shaped steps.

-Jim
 
No no no. Damn you people never learn. Take the monitor out. Take a hammer and pound the bottom of the game out. step inside the back door, and walk the game down the steps like Fred Flintstone used to drive his car.

DUH
 
Those Atari cabinets are hilarious, it's like they built them how everybody else built them, then added a bunch of extra shit inside to make it twice as heavy.
 
So I need to move my Centipede down into the basement. I can't use a hand-truck, because there's a right-angle turn on the stairs, and the landing's too small to allow me to turn the game.

My wife and I moved my DK, Jr, and Defender down without any trouble, but I can't figure out any good way to grip hold of the Centipede cabinet.

Any suggestions?

-Jim

This will be some extra work, had those triangular steps like yours many years ago, I got some plywood and 2X10's (I think) cut them to fit and made a temp landing by extending the last step before the turn over the first step after the turn heading down. You'll wind up with a square or rectangular temporary landing. Worked like a charm.
Rich
 
Centipede is DEFINITELY a heavy cab. Not one I want to move downstairs ever again. My converted Arkanoid: ROD is in a Centipede cab and I had a big, burly guy help me get it downstairs. He had it on a refrigerator dolly, and slowly, step by step, we got it down. He was even struggling and he moves furniture for a living! Slow and steady wins the race. Good luck!
 
Goddamn Atari cabs. I hate moving them with a passion. But, a trick I learned from some moving guys might work. They built a cardboard "shute" down my staircase from the upstairs. You'll need a bunch of cardboard, duck tape it down, lay the cab on its back and try sliding it down... :dontknow:
 
Could always hire movers for an hour to carry it down. Much cheaper than the medical bills for your back, anyway :)
 
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After getting my Millipede downstairs (which has a janky angled top), I now know why my wife was so adamant about not helping me move another cabinet down there. Out of 10 arcade cabs, 5 are Atari-based. And even though my Dig Dug is a cabaret, that sucker is one surprisingly heavy s.o.b. (Needless to say, I have that furniture mover on speed dial just in case).
 
Perhaps I'm just stronger than most, but my biggest problem is the shape of the Atari cabs. Not really the weight.(And I'm the one who lifts the cabs all the way up, while one other person guides).

From the sidewalk up to my place there are a total of 25 stairs and 5 turns. (Some very tight). And if I remember correctly, the dedicated Star Trek seemed to be the heaviest.

Would a Centipede cab be any heavier than my Asteroids or Millipede? (My star Wars had no monitor in it when I got it so it doesn't count. And my Pole Position is an Irish cabinet(PP2)).

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
Perhaps I'm just stronger than most, but my biggest problem is the shape of the Atari cabs.
I'm not strong at all, but I think the shape is what really does it. There's just no good way to grab hold of these cabs.

I might attach some temporary handles to mine for moving.

-Jim
 
I'm not strong at all, but I think the shape is what really does it. There's just no good way to grab hold of these cabs.

I might attach some temporary handles to mine for moving.

-Jim

Grab it at the coin door opening and the back door opening. It's doable.
 
Maybe these would help
http://www.amazon.com/Teamstrap-Moving-and-Lifting-Straps/dp/B000UUX7VO

or maybe these :)
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002HJU6JW/ref=asc_df_B002HJU6JW1586185?smid=A2OBXLGOZKQ3K9


Bloody Atari cabs!!!

cheers
/Tim
 

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