chris25810
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Opinions from the purists welcome
Several of you know that i picked this up a few months ago at a very nice price. This is a complete original machine with all numbers matching and it had a dead board when i got it.
Now here's where i'd love to hear a purists point of view. This cabinet at a quick glance doesn't look too horrible however, this cabinet was pulled from some shitty old storage facility and dropped on the auction floor in all it's filth and wetness. The front two corners have since swelled to 1 1/2" thick, the bottom plywood is full of moldy residue, it's bubbled all over the cabinet inside/out, the bottom 4" of the cabinet inside/out are swelled bad enough that i'd have to disassemble the thing just to fix it and this thing stinks so bad inside you can't even stand it. I've had the back door(which is also swelled) off this pile o crap for over two months and it still smells like like a one nite stand i had back in my younger years so what do i do with it?
Option 1- I could scrap it and make a shitpile of money selling parts to everyone here that needs em. This would be very easy since i now have the board fixed and another working one to boot.
option 2- I could easily find another Asteroids game around here that would love to be scrapped for the cabinet but that would raise hell with the purists.
Option 3- I could rip the cabinet apart, drive a 1/2 mile up the road to the cabinet shop and have them spit out a new cabinet for $240 which would be real easy.
Option 4- I could spend a hundred hours taking this thing apart, bondo and sand till my hands fall off and in the end i'd still have a stinky cabinet that's full of bondo. Is this really a great option just to save a classic cabinet?
Several of you know that i picked this up a few months ago at a very nice price. This is a complete original machine with all numbers matching and it had a dead board when i got it.
Now here's where i'd love to hear a purists point of view. This cabinet at a quick glance doesn't look too horrible however, this cabinet was pulled from some shitty old storage facility and dropped on the auction floor in all it's filth and wetness. The front two corners have since swelled to 1 1/2" thick, the bottom plywood is full of moldy residue, it's bubbled all over the cabinet inside/out, the bottom 4" of the cabinet inside/out are swelled bad enough that i'd have to disassemble the thing just to fix it and this thing stinks so bad inside you can't even stand it. I've had the back door(which is also swelled) off this pile o crap for over two months and it still smells like like a one nite stand i had back in my younger years so what do i do with it?
Option 1- I could scrap it and make a shitpile of money selling parts to everyone here that needs em. This would be very easy since i now have the board fixed and another working one to boot.
option 2- I could easily find another Asteroids game around here that would love to be scrapped for the cabinet but that would raise hell with the purists.
Option 3- I could rip the cabinet apart, drive a 1/2 mile up the road to the cabinet shop and have them spit out a new cabinet for $240 which would be real easy.
Option 4- I could spend a hundred hours taking this thing apart, bondo and sand till my hands fall off and in the end i'd still have a stinky cabinet that's full of bondo. Is this really a great option just to save a classic cabinet?
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