My new cab! Taito Egret 29 (with pics & HELP request!)

maxlords · Post by **maxlords** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:06 pm

AAAAAAAAAAAAAND...here are the pics...game playing Out Zone! As you can see...it's not QUITE complete...I'm missing a small red insert that goes where that little bright white hole is...very irritating. Also, the way it was strapped in, there was a bit of breakage on the top of the right speaker, right near the frame. Aside from that and the plexiglass topper that is coming in the mail, I'm all set. Works great both horiz and vertically, and takes about 1-2 minutes to rotate completely and change over the bezel. Very VERY easy to use. I disassembled the entire control panel last night, cleaned it, and reassembled it. I'm planning on switching all the green buttons and sticks to yellow...I think it'll look better with the blue. Aside from that and a repaint job (parts of it are a bit yellowed and/or scuffed) I think it's damned well good to go! Yay!

As for the help...if ANYONE can hook me up with the insert that goes in the front on top...the red "Egret 29" as shown HERE I would be ETERNALLY grateful. And as incentive, I'm offering a $50 bounty, which if I get no takers, will be upped when I have more money....

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:09 pm

Very nice, but one thing -- I hate the button layout on the Egret 29. Is it hard to put in another panel w/ the button a human distance away from the joy stick? They did 1000x better on the Egrett II & III.

maxlords · Post by **maxlords** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:13 pm

Panel is removeable...but...I don't mind it myself. I don't play any fighters so I rarely make insane sweeping stick movements. But yeah, I could have another plate cut for it with holes in different spots. It'd take some fiddling but it's doable.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:13 pm

nice cab, but oh man i wants an egret II.

my poor Dimahoo is calling me.

D · Post by D » Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:22 pm

Are you sure you will one day not rEGRET painting it?
Seriously. Painting plastic?
I hope you know what you are getting yourself into.

Great cab congrats, I also recently got a cab. A Master Play, which is French and made by N'STYL. Also has 4 buttons per player, but it's a 25" wood cab with rotatble monitor. I got it for 175 EURO with Final Fight! I'm selling FF.

Not that beautiful though, pics are not in order

maxlords · Post by **maxlords** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:49 pm

Actually..most of the cab is metal. Should be easy to paint. The plastic part is the part I'm not sure about yet...but all the plastic is badly yellowed, and if I disassemble it and individually paint the plastic parts with a paint for use with plastic, it should be ok.

dynagod · Post by **dynagod** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:43 pm

i painted my old egrets plastic control panel from its original blue to red, krylon makes a spray paint especially for plastic.

it looks better than new..
stripped the cab

and painted it black

Post by **Dave_K.** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:45 pm

dynagod wrote:i painted my old egrets plastic control panel from its original blue to red, krylon makes a spray paint especially for plastic.

LOL, I was just going to put up a link to your project thread on BYOAC when I noticed all the images are gone. Glad you were lurking the forum here.

dynagod · Post by **dynagod** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:13 pm

from my experience repainting the cab itself is not something to be taken lightly.
although it is metal, the cab is not painted, its a baked on enamel thats EXTREMELY hard, and also has some sort of anti-graffiti coating over that. it must be stripped to base metal or your primer/paint will simply run.. happened to me , i had to strip it twice..
it took me CONSIDERABLE effort to strip the cab. i dont recomend it if your not looking for some serious work. i had a commercial compressor and air grinding tools and it took me probobly 30 or more man hours of hard labor.

maxlords · Post by **maxlords** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:43 pm

Good lord. That is friggin awesome tho! I don't suppose you'd happen to have that insert for the top....I need to know how it's constructed so I can get a replica...

dynagod · Post by **dynagod** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:08 pm

maxlords wrote:Good lord. That is friggin awesome tho! I don't suppose you'd happen to have that insert for the top....I need to know how it's constructed so I can get a replica...

sadly i dont have an extra for ya,but i might know someone who can get you a replacement part imported, i gotta find his contact info again.
also give himura controls a shout,
he can probly get his hands on one for ya

http://www.himuragames.com/home.php

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:03 pm

That's a nice cabinet there. I just recently took the jump into arcade stuff myself, and my cabinet is just a half-baked conversion of an old 80s football game (which is especially evident when looking at the control panel.) It's got a 25" vert monitor in good shape though, and I think that with some work I could make it look pretty decent. I'd love to get a Japanese style cab, but I'm not sure I'd be able to get it through the front door of my apartment, much less into the den where my current one resides. The price was pretty good though ($250 for the whole thing, including the Strikers 1945 board.)

There's a couple of pics in this thread if anyone's interested.

pixelcorps · Post by **pixelcorps** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:26 pm

himura games has the last few laser cut egret control panels I made,

you may find that arcadeinfinity has one of the egret neon covers...

any other egret related stuff, try my livejournal.....

ResOGlas · Post by **ResOGlas** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:32 pm

You're missing the two Taito ashtrays that go by the start buttons.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:38 pm

ResOGlas wrote:You're missing the two Taito ashtrays that go by the start buttons.

And a mountain of cigarette butts.

maxlords · Post by **maxlords** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:55 am

Vexorg wrote: I'd love to get a Japanese style cab, but I'm not sure I'd be able to get it through the front door of my apartment, much less into the den where my current one resides.

Actually, the Egret is narrower than a traditional cabinet. It fit through my front door with no effort at all, and is only 28" wide. I think the Capcom Impress is even smaller....

pixelcorps wrote:himura games has the last few laser cut egret control panels I made,

you may find that arcadeinfinity has one of the egret neon covers...

any other egret related stuff, try my livejournal.....

Will definitely look into that

Thanks! Any and all help is appreciated!

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:55 am

I'll definitely have to look at something like that for my next one then (this one's good enough for now, but has a vertical monitor that can't be changed, and I suspect my options on the control panel are rather limited.) I think I'll eventually get a second one for horizontal stuff (primarily Neogeo MVS.) I think I like the look of the Astro City best, but that one seems huge. On any of the Japanese cabs, getting it here would also be an issue.

dpful · Post by **dpful** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:46 pm

dynagod wrote:i painted my old egrets plastic control panel from its original blue to red, krylon makes a spray paint especially for plastic.

That's the most beautiful cab I've ever seen.

japtor · Post by **japtor** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:03 pm

LOL, I was just going to put up a link to your project thread on BYOAC when I noticed all the images are gone. Glad you were lurking the forum here.

that was one of the most entertaining threads ive ever read. its like the cab gods punished him at every turn for gutting the egret, including inflicting physical harm.

Vexorg wrote:I'll definitely have to look at something like that for my next one then (this one's good enough for now, but has a vertical monitor that can't be changed, and I suspect my options on the control panel are rather limited.) I think I'll eventually get a second one for horizontal stuff (primarily Neogeo MVS.) I think I like the look of the Astro City best, but that one seems huge. On any of the Japanese cabs, getting it here would also be an issue.

i think astros and most 27-29" screen candy cabs are all around the same size. i remember trying to get it through the door in the garage. we had a tape measure, the width was like exactly the same as the cab, we decided to go around the side of the house and went through double doors. i think width was in the 27-28" range.

Crunch · Post by **Crunch** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:44 pm

Sexy cabinet you got there. I like the way you have it set up in your room. I hope to have mine setup like that. Finally getting into arcade collection myself, pickin up an Impress cab off neorichieb1971 on these forums.

dynagod · Post by **dynagod** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:50 am

all dead images painstakingly relinked due to surge in interest and emails

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=24820.0