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Any demand/interest for new cabinets?

Spandangler

Spandangler

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Hey dudes

I’m exploring the possibility of getting some cabinets made.
I’ve spoken to a joiner who (costs to be confirmed) reckons he can create them with 18mm hardwood ply with mitred corners for around £600.
The more he can make the cheaper it could be.
Just gauging interest at this stage to see if it’s a goer.
I’ve no idea if that’s good or bad.
Cheers
Gaz
 
Does anyone know manny ?

Could he be tempted back ?
 
what cabs. they’re different. £600 is probably right from a commercial pov, but you can do it yourself for £100 mats - what we really should be doing is working out the self build templates and methods.
 
Flat pack kits would be cool, so you just glue it together.
AlanJ said:
what cabs. they’re different. £600 is probably right from a commercial pov, but you can do it yourself for £100 mats - what we really should be doing is working out the self build templates and methods.
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Manny took apart a WMS cabinet and used each part as a template to make more.

Every joint was the same as original. Made them out of better wood.. works of art.

Manny sold all his tools and now buys houses/flats, does them up and sells them on.
 

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Yeah sorry should’ve been clearer there. It’s based on a wpc cab (corvette)
Price would be £660 but can’t see it different hugely between cabs unless you have a Hercules!!
As I say, just gauging demand and interest if any. I’ll enquire about a flat pack option.

Would need to be collected from Haverhill Suffolk/Cambs/Essex border.
 
in an ideal world you need to get someone to design it on cad say like a WPC with all the correct cut rules on it. Then have extra files to swap out bits that are differnt on different machines. Then you could maybe sell them fairly cheaply as a package and then that person can take it to someone with a CNC or one of the many ebay sellers that do it. Get them to cut it and just put it together yourself
 
Manny did good work, but he was a huffy bugger! His prices were also on the high side. IIRC this was in the days when you could buy a whole pinball for the price he was charging for an empty cab. The irony being, with the way prices are these days his prices would probably be more palatable now
 
Didn’t manny pretty much get ran out of town here? I seem to remember him taking alot of sh*t over his pricing and he pretty much felt like he was hounded until he said f**k it.
 
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AlanJ said:
what cabs. they’re different. £600 is probably right from a commercial pov, but you can do it yourself for £100 mats - what we really should be doing is working out the self build templates and methods.
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Having been working with ply a fair bit recently in my other hobby, I'd suggest that materials estimate would need at least doubling.

Like everything else, the price of timber and other stuff you'd need to make these has skyrocketed - it might be possible to get some low grade (C grade or lower) ply for roughly that price, but that really wouldn't be suitable in my experience - it would want to be B grade at the least, and if I was doing it for myself I'd want to use A or AB Baltic ply. There's also variation across different suppliers/products, even with the grading system, which adds to the complexity. And all that's before considering the hundreds and hundreds of ££ you'd need in tools and or CNC costs + the effort assembling and finishing it ready for paint. It's perhaps a deceptively large amount of work to do on a small scale.
 
If you’ve got the time and patience you can make your own fairly easily. I did the exact same thing and documented here when making my Atari asteroids deluxe/battlezone cabaret cabinet

I used this place to buy the plywood and got it cut to the correct rectangular sizes

cutmyplastic.co.uk

then used a router and around 5 cutters and templates to make all the cuts, angles , recesses, grooves etc

End result 1 flat pack to glue together, worked out perfectly
 
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