Original Monitors/Frames in factory Taito Cabs?

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I mean the Jungle King/ Wild Western/ Elevator Action style cabs. I have one here with no monitor, and one with a 4900 in a horizontal frame, but they had to add the Taito bubble to the back door as the monitor frame wouldn't fit inside the machine. What monitor/ frame combo was originally in these cabs? I want to be able to put a standard back door on this machine and lose the stupid bubble. It causes the machine to stick out from the wall an additional 6 inches or so and completely sucks.
 
frame is horizontal. You know shelf mount monitor style. Although this particular monitor and frame was once mounted in the same cab vertically and still fit fine.
 
I've got a Front Line with a vertical monitor that fits fine with no bubble. When I rotated my Jungle King cab from horizontal to vertical, the door wouldn't close without cutting a hole and adding the bubble. Same issue, I need to figure out how to mount the monitor without needing the bubble.
 
Hmmm... I have a horizontal frame 4900 in my Jungle King, and the back door closes just fine.
 
Actually of the 4 taito cabs I have 3 out of 4 close fine without a need for the bubble. All games use a horizontally mounted monitor and from memory I believe 3 are WG and one is a GO7. Haven't looked close enough into the issue to determine why 2 WG's do not need the bubble but 1 does.
 
Not to say that's how they all are but of the many I have seen (including the two I own) they had a horizontally mounted WGK4900 with no bubble. They have the wire type frame. Are you sure that the bubble wasn't for the vertical cabs but just left on or used on a horizontal cab?
 
Not to say that's how they all are but of the many I have seen (including the two I own) they had a horizontally mounted WGK4900 with no bubble. They have the wire type frame. Are you sure that the bubble wasn't for the vertical cabs but just left on or used on a horizontal cab?

Whoever hacked the hole for the bubble to mount around was either legally blind or busy fucking a gaggle of midgets whilst cutting it. I could cut a straighter hole using my prehensile schwein.
 
Would a sanyo ez20 fit in those cabs without having to cut a bubble? you prolly have an extra kicking around Phet I have seen you do many ninty's over the years. Seems like those frames have the better profile to make that happen.

Might not be OG but if it works then who cares.
 
That's funny about the blind guy cutting the hole.

In some of the Taito conversion manuals where you have to swap the monitor orientation, they included a procedure to make the hole and even included a template.

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My Jungle Hunt has the Zenith version of the K7000 in it... horizontal monitor frame... no bubble on back.
 
Whoever hacked the hole for the bubble to mount around was either legally blind or busy fucking a gaggle of midgets whilst cutting it. I could cut a straighter hole using my prehensile schwein.

Ha, it must be the same guy who cut out the coin door opening and CP base on my defender. It looked like he used a butter knife and a flat rock whilst balancing on a three wheeled skateboard with one foot and talking on the phone.
 
I had an old Qix cab that had been converted to a Baseball game. The monitor is a vertical frame that they rotated and had to install the bubble on. The cut through the cab was piss poor but you couldn't tell with the bubble on. My current Qix cab is original and has no bubble since the monitor has never been rotated. - Barry
 
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I have one of the original wire-form Taito monitor frames that the horizontal shelf mount bolts to if you need a pic - or the frame. Came out of a Jungle Hunt cab...
 
I have a Qix that has a vertically mounted 4900 in it with the wire looking frame and no bubble on the back.
 
I have the wire frame in both cabs. The frame just sticks out the back of the machine. I'll snap a pic.
 
Jungle King cab I have has a k4900 that the corner of the monitor frame has been cut and bent to allow the door to close..

Im putting another monitor in horizontal for my Multi Taito setup

I would take a pic, but the cab is buried in the garage
 
I Necro-ing this topic, because after researching mine, I found this thread most enlightening.

Here's my story:
I bought a Zoo Keeper conversion (previously in an Alpine Ski cabinet which is vertical). And someone prior to the previous owner cut a hole and added a bubble. My guess is that the original vertically mounted monitor fit, but when it crapped out and it was swapped with another, the frame prevented the door from closing. So they used a hole saw bit and drilled 3 holes and cut the rest out around that. Looks AWFUL. Turns out it was too close to the lock, so they had to cut a piece off of the bubble itself to make it not cover the lock when installed. Again, I hate how it look both on the outside and inside.

Luckily, it closes just fine without the bubble. So I'm going to replace the back door with something made from scratch sans the bubble. I will use the old door as a template, minus the hole of course.

I guess my mystery is solved then. I was wondering if the bubble was stock or added afterwards.

Pics below for reference on mine.

Del
 

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