Day One!
Here are a couple of pictures right after I got the cabinet out of my truck. I had to do it myself, and it still weighed a TON, even without the monitor. I had thrown down a piece of scrap carpet in the bed of the truck, which really helped. I also lucked out with the weather. Skies were really threatening and there was a light rain when I left, but by the time I picked the cabinet and got it outside to load, it was starting to get sunny. Click on the images to see large versions.
Well, there it sits. I got some real strange looks driving home with this thing in the back of my truck, including a dude in a Porsche 911 that almost ass-ended another car at a light trying to see what I was lugging. Everything in my possession at that moment, including the cabinet and my crappy 20 year old truck probably wouldn't make one of his car payments, yet he was gawking at me.
Chicks still didn't notice though. Sorry my fellow nerds.
The control panel looked like it had mud on it at one time, yet the cab wasn't swollen. Perhaps this poor thing just sat in a leaky warehouse with water dripping down on the panel. If there is anything I can say in old Power Drives favor, it's that there is no swelling from water.
Obstacle Two!
Hey, it's in there!
Take a good look at my garage! I bet Martha Stewart would voluntarily go back to the big house if the only other option was dealing with this shit-hole! Computer parts and beer bottles all over the desk, air hose strewn about, a dirt bike in the middle of the room, my old ladies canopy swing that I promised to put together in 2002 still in the box, a piece of plywood from a renovation just DARING you to get your eye near it, and now the capper, the 20 year old skeleton of an arcade game that sucked!
I spend the remainder of "Day One" cleaning the garage so I could actually move to work on the cab. Well executed plan, Genius!