Electrocoin Duet Cabs are great for home use

Here is some info for any 90's arcade fans. The Electrocoin Duet was the centrepiece in many arcades and a long time "holy grail" cab for me.




They are quite rare to see come up for sale. I had an alert on ebay for several years before one came up. It seems most people think they are too big and they end up getting scrapped.



However, the seat section comes off halving the depth leaving you with these dimensions:
90cm wide, 180cm tall and 84cm deep.


So still slightly too big to fit through a regular 80cm door....


However, it fits neatly on a small pallet for shipping from UK to Ireland with Transland (around €100):






Once it lands on your door, start by stripping out the monitor, glass and jamma wiring so the cab is light.


You can take out the control panel section with a clamp/spreader. Be gentle with the clamp spreader and a flat head screwdriver to loosen the wood glue and dowels on each side until the control panel pops out:




Jigsaw out a section of the base - it's okay to leave this off as the base of the seat section goes over this cut out section anyway (I cut 15cm in from each side and 25 cm deep):





Now it fits in easily at an angle through the door. Get a corner of the base and control panel in first and then rotate the cab 90 degrees to get the rest of it in:





Once in, it's simply a case of reinstating the jamma wiring, monitor, glass etc. Then put the seat section on and it's ready to use.



It's the perfect height for kids too - the Xenon cab is too high (using that for vertical games only now) but this is perfect!