What to Do with Cabinet Guts???

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So I've parted out several cabinets whose bases were water logged and pretty unsalvagable.

But I managed to come away with lots of old power supplies that look like isolation transformers, some line filters, fuse holders, wiring... you know.

Well, the jamma harnesses I gave away, but what the crap do I do with the other stuff? Nobody's going to buy those power supplies right? I'd have to pay to have them recycled... and I REALLY can't afford that. Does these things go in the trash?
 
Put as many as you can fit into a flat rate USPS box, throw it on Ebay for 1 cent, and charge the flat rate postage for shipping. Someone will buy a box of random stuff...
 
So I've parted out several cabinets whose bases were water logged and pretty unsalvagable.

But I managed to come away with lots of old power supplies that look like isolation transformers, some line filters, fuse holders, wiring... you know.

Well, the jamma harnesses I gave away, but what the crap do I do with the other stuff? Nobody's going to buy those power supplies right? I'd have to pay to have them recycled... and I REALLY can't afford that. Does these things go in the trash?

I keep a lot of that crap around because you never know when you might need it. :D
 
Why not sell the hardware as a guts kit? You know for "X" game, the complete harness, PS, CP. Whatever you can cobble together.
 
You could just throw it all inside some game you are about to sell and give it to the buyer as a surprise "bonus".
 
sounds like they were jamma cabs so they should have iso's, line filters and switchers. I would verify the voltages on the switchers and offer the stuff for sale cheap. Maybe check how much you can fit in a large flat rate box. brake the parts up evenly unless it all fits in one box and sell it for the cost of shipping plus $5-$10 depending on how much is in the box.
 
Well the switchers I still have. It's all the Isolation Transformer-esque power supplies that were in the original cabinets... I have no idea which one went where anymore, but they were from Food Fights, Burgertimes, some Midway games, Taito cabs... In the JAMMA conversion, this stuff was just left in there and wired around.

I like the idea of all those power supplies in one big freakin' flat rate box, then selling it cheap. I don't like the extra work, but I like it more than letting this stuff go to waste!

Got lots of coin doors / buckets too. I sense a big fer sale post coming up...
 
I like the idea of all those power supplies in one big freakin' flat rate box, then selling it cheap. I don't like the extra work, but I like it more than letting this stuff go to waste!

Just be careful, there is a 70 pound weight limit on flat rate. I don't know how many transformers that is.

I just had an evil thought. Just take a picture of the sealed box and put it up on EBay as "Transformers - one box full". Everybody will think they are the toys from the last Transformers movie. Surprise!!! :D

ken
 
I'll have to watch that weight limit then. Carrying a tub and bucket full of wiring and transformers was seriously pulling some weight. And i'm not a featherweight or anything.

like the eBay idea though.

Oh, and glad to see Xybots under your project list Yellowdog! :)
 
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