Candy Cab from rklok.nl - what's your experience

I bought two from him over ten years ago when things were a lot cheaper. I'd say the service is still the same now, just quite a bit more expensive. Cabinets that were 700 euro back then seem to be about 1.5k now.

His cabs are tested and some are rebuilt, really depends on what you're ordering. If it's a high end cabinet it might even have been resprayed.

Lots of the usual stuff like Astros etc would just be cleaned, tested and then sent out. He'll let you know the condition of the monitor if it has burn in etc and some photos of it working, but it definitely won't have been serviced.

Both of my monitors arrived working fine but did benefit from some pot refinement on my side. I'd say most of his cabinets would be like this. I did have cap kits in both chassis serviced though just to guarantee a bit of longevity in both machines.

He ships them on a wooden palette covered in a heavy duty cardboard box. He really has that part of the process down to a fine art. Both arrived at my front door in perfect condition (I'd some issues with the delivery men but that's another story entirely)

Cost 200 shipped back then but I'd say that's increased.

I've brought cabs in just strapped to pallets over the years and never had an issue not from Ronnie but having cardboard wrapped around does help to be fair !

I bought one from him during the pandemic. Nice to deal with and the cabinet was as he described.

It came on a palette. And arrived in under two weeks.

He’s up front about monitor burn in. There was none on mine but I needed to tweak the colours and alignment.

Ah the alignment might’ve been but rest, not so much. Now most boards I try look pretty good without tweaking.

I bought an Aero City it was about a grand plus 200 shipping.

That is more than most here paid a few years before and prices have continued to rise since I got it in 2020.

This was a bit before that, think I got it back in December! He usually has links to photos of the cabinet in his emails alright, with the monitor running.

If you're looking for an Astro specifically I'd say get in touch and see if he has any in store. It's definitely one of the easier cabinets to get your hands on so I'd be surprised if he doesn't have one already to go or at least a few coming down the line.

How are the doors to your house width wise? I ask as the Astro is one of those cabinets that doesn't have a quick detach control panel. You can remove it but you've to take a bit more of the cabinet's front panelling off.

He could be just waiting on a new container to arrive,Prices in Japan were running high for the last while on all cabs and a good lot more containers going to the US as well for the last year or 2 with the strong dollar so strong competition on available stocks. I think Astro were just the stragglers in an increasing expensive hobby

I haven't bought candy cabinets but I've bought Japanese rhythm games from him and can't really fault him. Shipping is about 250 give or take, also he seems to have a lot of stock so you may get lucky if you contact or else can put stuff on future containers. One of the main reason for candy cabinets price rises is they are getting more scare in Japan with a big home market there now.

It is, although they are out there, I've sourced some stuff direct from Japan and they can be found. Another great place for finds now is China, there are TONNES of cabinets there, a lot of the used Japanese stuff got shipped there back in the day, there's a guy on Facebook who will ship individually worldwide JCL, usually fully restored.

https://jclgames.com/collections/all

my own view on a lot of the cabs that came out of china a few years ago is they where very average stock , most cabs that came in before 2012 were decent to excellent and the blasts around 2007-2010 were like new !

There is a european take on candy cabs on adverts right now

http://www.adverts.ie/33340866

sega naomi.

The CRT is usually vga (31k 640x480) but the ad says it's wired for jamma so it could be a tri-sync CRT covering cga, ega, vga. That is exactly what you want as you can play everything from 80's to 00's.

Those Afterburner Climax cabinets are quite common, I could find a few in Ireland if anyone wanted one. Keeping the Lindbergs running and actually moving the things are the tough work.

As for the fake New Netflix City/Converted Naomi. You could get a real Naomi for half the price, chop it and do it yourself, loads of guides online. I even probably have one if someone wanted to take on the project. You can easily get signal converters too so it doesn't really matter if VGA or not (unless your picky about sync, which a lot of Naomi's are multi sync.)

As for monitors, anything with monitors are tricky. I've probably shipped hundreds of cabs at this stage and I can say a good percentage go out of whack but are easily adjusted, the knobs tent to move for sync during shipping, very easy to retune. But anything with monitors is tricky a, they break commonly and are always a risk particularly in shipping, if they're off for too long or get damp (often in containers, you HAVE to dry them out). Thankfully there are guys in Europe who repair them (just send the chassis not the whole monitor).

I've got cabs of Ronnie , arrived within week and a half. On a pallet strapped and boxed at your front door . Not had a problem. A small wire came loose on the trisync monitor chassis on the astro city in transit and my heart sank with I first powered it up 😅 I've not used him in about 6 years though

Bloody England and Brexit , always a good source for cabs and now it's off the radar

Didn't think of that, you'd get nailed to the wall with taxes on a cabinet from the UK. Anyone importing cabinets to the UK must be having a very hard time.

amazon uk is grand no changes there to be honest,

Ive always used a man in van setup for collecting cabs which was always cheaper than the martin/transland route but could be slightly limited on area of collection at times , and while brexit has changed the amount that can offer this , there is a slight work around .

I brought in cab cab last year with a man in a van for circa 150ish, cheaper than the above martin /transland route. Guy brought it in ,in the back of van as part of a house move which happens quite a lot still .just saying 😉