Northern Ohio - possible parting-out project

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Hey All,

I've been in touch recently with an op in Norther Ohio with a bunch of late Jamma-era games, about 30 in all. Most of these are non-working, some are missing their boards, some have bad power supplies, some have dead monitors. Their cabs are in most cases in poor condition, they traveled a lot with a carnival and are pretty beat up. I've seen them all first-hand, there are a few cabs that could be salvaged, but most would be better parted out. While there I messed around with these games for about an hour, and was able to get 2 up and running, and several others to have their monitors power up or the game play blind... so, it looks like there is some good internal stuff to salvage. Around a dozen have 25" monitors, the rest 19's. Almost no classics, but there was a Rally Bike in an intact Gorf cab, a trashed Zaxxon, and what looked to be a few Midway converted cabs (maybe from Domino man, etc -- I just recognized the coin doors.)

The owner really just wants to be rid of them, and does not seem interested in a lot of money. I might be able to get them for close to nothing, or delivered for a reasonable fee.

Anybody in Northern Ohio and have access to a big open space and a means to dispose of about 30 cabs? I don't live in the area, so it would be too far to move these to Indy. If we can find someone with a big barn or warhouse space, we could arrange a part-out party. But I don't want to mess with this unless we have a 100% means of disposing the cabs afterword -- it would be too big a job for one guy to get stuck with.

Chime in if you are in the area and could help. I just thought I'd post here and see if we could organize something, rather than all these going to the dump.
 
I'm in Northwest Ohio. Don't have any space at the moment, but we can use my driveway lol all dead cabs can be left here. Got a friend who busts them up ands burns them in his shop stove. Just have a truck big enough to haul away all the parts your keeping. I'd just want a few of the trashed empties to copy for the cnc.
 
I'm in Northwest Ohio. Don't have any space at the moment, but we can use my driveway lol all dead cabs can be left here. Got a friend who busts them up ands burns them in his shop stove. Just have a truck big enough to haul away all the parts your keeping. I'd just want a few of the trashed empties to copy for the cnc.

That's an idea, but hopefully we can find a place with a roof over us, no fun working on games in the inevitable rain.

These are more in the north-eastern part of Ohio, closer we can find to Cleveland area the better.
 
Here's a listing of what's there, probably with a couple omissions I may have missed. I've made a couple notations on things that I remember from my quick look. Please note, most of these cabs were in bad shape!

Turkey Hunter USA
Martial Champion x2 (one monitor is confirmed missing the chassis/neck board)
Superman (cab looked decent)
Rally X
Big Buck Hunter
Golden T
Golden T Classic
Golden T 97
Big Run
Mortal Combat Ultimate
RaiDen
Rally Bike (in converted Gorf cab, confirmed working)
Cherry Master
Out Runners - big 2 player dual-monitor sit-down version
Off Road 3 player
Rampage World Tour (no PCB, pretty good cabinet)
Capcom Bowling
Mortal Kombat 2, trashed cab
OutRun
Captain Amerca & the Avengers x2, no monitors
Racin' Force
Area 51, Maximum Force
NFL Blitz, no monitor
Pound for Pound
Simpsons 4 player dedicated, no board
Street Fighter 2
Zaxxon, supposed to be working, trashed cab, bottom 1' is cut off!
 
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I would be interested in some stuff. I might be able to store some stuff but most of my space is taken by cars.
 
I have a bar near downtown Cleveland. My back room might be able to hold all those cabs. My main issue is how long till they were out of there.
 
Was there a domino man cabinet? Especially with the dominoes intact. I'm interested in the empty cabinet.
 
Was there a domino man cabinet? Especially with the dominoes intact. I'm interested in the empty cabinet.

I *THINK* it was a domino man. I could be wrong, just going from memory. It was converted to a Martial Champion, no dominoes of course.

You can see it in the background in this picture, behind the Simpsons, let me know if I'm wrong.

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Good news on this. I've heard back from the owner, he seems willing to let a group of us show up there for the day, and take the cabs we want and strip the ones we don't. I think he has a means of disposing of the junk cabs.

The location is pretty remote, if this happens it needs to happen soon, before it gets cold -- the games are in an unheated warehouse, stripping them in chilly weather would suck.

Still need to get a price set up, will work on this next. I figure I'll try to get him to agree on a dollar amount, and then we can split this between all the participants (myself included). We'll see what he says, but $50-75 for 6-10 guys sound reasonable? That seems like a good target for me, and there would be plenty of monitors, etc to go around.
 
I'm moving to Cleveland in a couple of weeks, and would definitely be down on checking these out!
 
OK guys, here we go...

Spoke with the owner again, he says for $500 we can come and take everything we want. That means whole cabs, or strip parts off cabs we don't want. We'll leave all the stuff we don't want, just line it up so he can trash it easily. All in one day, he said the weekend of the 12th-13th would work for him. This is in the area of Youngstown Ohio, that's the northeast, between Cleveland and Pittsburg, PA.

I figure if we get 6-10 guys, its going to cost us $50 or so each, the more guys we have the less it will cost, but there will be less loot to go around,. I need to get at least 5 other guys confirmed for an equal split of the cost (including me) and I'll make it happen.

He says he can set up a big heater there to keep us warm. There is power there as well.

So who's in? Sound off if you are up for it, let me know if Sat. or Sun is better. My vote is for sunday, but I'm flexible. We can work out all the little details after I get solid group. It would be awesome if we had someone with a test rig - to check PCBs and see if monitors work.

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I am in depending on how many others would be. Don't want to make a 10 hr trip plus picking time to get some scraps.
 
I am in depending on how many others would be. Don't want to make a 10 hr trip plus picking time to get some scraps.

I hear ya, any more than 10 guys is going to be too many, and too much chaos. Small and friendly is the way to go -- once we have a core group, I'll see if I can get negotiate a better deal on the price.

Also keep in mind, not all the cabs are totally trashed... a few were worth keeping together, it just looked like they were missing a power supply or something.
 
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I hear ya, any more than 10 guys is going to be too many, and too much chaos. Small and friendly is the way to go -- once we have a core group, I'll see if I can get negotiate a better deal on the price.

I was thinking 5 or less! How would it be divided? Seems like most of us will be after the same stuff, for the most part. Just throwing questions around.

JJ
 
Fine by me, but I don't need 5 or so monitors!

If we can get a core of confirmed, we'll try and come up with a plan in advance on how to spit up the stuff -- some guys are likely to me more interested in one thing or another.
 
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