Removing a Vertical Monitor - Possible w/ One Person?

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Removing a Vertical Monitor - Possible w/ One Person?

What is the best way to take out a vertical monitor (Frogger)? I thought I could do it with my wife helping (loosening bolts from the front side), but it seems like I need one other person b/c I can't really hold the monitor and help loosen the nuts.

Do I need one person on the front side loosening bolts, one person on the back side loosening bolts, and one person to hold the monitor? Am I going about this the wrong way?
 
Dont quote me on this - because i am not sure of a Frogger cab / how the monitor is mounted. Maybe something different -

But for Atari / Taito / Midway cabs from that period, for me, i just unbolted alone, the monitor still sits on the frame ready to be pulled out - the frame supports it without the bolts (Jungle Kings, EAs, Trons, Star Wars, Spy hunter, paperboys, others i forget). Have another look at it to see if the bolts "matter" or not based on the frame?
 
Is your problem that you can't reach the nut on front and the bold on the back at the same time? I'm not sure what you are asking exactly but on most cabs I've had I could just reach through an opening somewhere so that I can reach the front and back at the same time. And some of them have the nut or bold on one side that is held captive so that you can loosen from the front only. It depends on the game.

I'm not familiar with Frogger either though. It's a game I've never owned so far.
 
A lot of games mount the monitor in a wooden board that is removable. Look and see if the board that holds the monitor is itself bolted to braces on the side of the machine. If it is then you can unbold the board and slide the board/monitor assembly out and then remove the monitor when it is laying in the floor.

I did a lot of work on a Frogger monitor a while back, but it was so long ago that I can't remember how it was mounted. I think I can remember pulling the monitor out with the board though.

- JM
 
Is your problem that you can't reach the nut on front and the bold on the back at the same time? I'm not sure what you are asking exactly but on most cabs I've had I could just reach through an opening somewhere so that I can reach the front and back at the same time. And some of them have the nut or bold on one side that is held captive so that you can loosen from the front only. It depends on the game.

No I can reach both sides, but if I do that I can't hold the monitor, which I'm assuming will fall out the back when it gets down to the last bolt or so. I could be wrong on that. From what I can tell the bolts are the only thing keeping it in place.

gameguy1957 might be correct in that I could just remove the wooden board that the monitor is mounted to. That way I can get it out of the cab and then remove the wooden board from the monitor after it is out. I'll check it out tomorrow.
 
I just removed a vert monitor from Frontline on Friday. The frame rested on wood so it didn't go anywhere once all the bolts were removed. It then slid upwards at an angle to come out. Was pretty painless... The crappy part was having to swap new monitor tube and chassis to the old monitor frame, because most vertical monitor games have a special frame so it contours to the back of the cab, instead of poking thru it...This is the 2nd time I've had to do this. In addition to Frontline, Assault also needed to have this done. New monitor on old crappy frame.

Tom
 
OK, the monitor is out! gameguy1957 was right. The easy way to go was to pull out the wood frame that the monitor was bolted too. Everything is out of the cab now so it's on to dust clean out/air out. Thanks!
 
And then what?

Continue with the resto of the cab, coin door refresh/mechs, new control panel overlay, joystick/button refresh, sideart, monitor repair/cap kit, figure out if the board(s) and power supply need work (supposedly OK), put it all back together and then, then I'll finally play Frogger. :)

I do have eventual plans to set it up to be my "all vertical games cab" (mame), but I plan to do it tastefully. I've got a trashed control panel on the way for this alternate control layout so I don't destroy the original. I want to be able to convert it back to completely original easily when I get enough room someday to have more than one cab.
 
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