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r32:
Newbie here, but I have been Mame'ing for years. So much cool stuff here I am pretty excited to have found you guys.

I have a few questions on cabinet WIDTH(s).

What is your width of your cabinet (at widest point)?
What is the width of your controls (at widest point)?
Did you first determine width, then pick a monitor to fit? Or the other way around?
Are you happy with the width/depth you chose, or do you wish you would have done something different?

I'm building my first arcade and while I have some experience in woodworking, I am trying to think economically here. I want to be able to move my new toy from house to house as I move.

Thanks  :)
smalltownguy:

--- Quote from: r32 on February 03, 2010, 09:27:19 pm ---I'm building my first arcade and while....
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Hee hee -- I'll bite.

Welcome! Glad to have you. Just a point of order, so as to prevent you from further teasing...you build an arcade cabinet, not an arcade. Of course, if you're ambitious, you could build an arcade. But I doubt you could take it with you from house to house as you move ;)

FWIW, my cab is 26" wide -- it's a Rolling Thunder conversion.
CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: smalltownguy on February 03, 2010, 09:39:56 pm ---you build an arcade cabinet, not an arcade

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 :cheers:

EDIT: I should say that if you are looking to build a cabinet -- just make sure that you can move it to where you want it. It doesn't really matter how wide everybody else goes if you need to slide your cabinet down to the basement and the landing on the stairs is 2'x2'. Maybe you could borrow someone else's cabinet to see if it would fit.  >:D
Nacimroc:
Oh its off again  :lol :lol

I based the width of my cab solely on the width of my doorway. If you can't get it into the house its useless! I looked for a TV no wider than...(whatever the figure was)!

My arcade....cough....machine is 25 1/2 inches and my CP is 28.5 inches!

The TV you get may well depend on the speakers on the side. If you want to remove the TV's case and lose the speakers it could make it much thinner!
t3design:
My arcade cabinet is under construction, however, when built it will be 27" from the inside of one side to the inside of the other. The CP fits between the sides. I bought a 27″ Flat Tri-Mode CRT Display from Nieman Displays. Then I sized the cabinet to fit as close to that as possible and then designed the CP to fit the 27" dimension. My cab is a little different as I am copying the shape of the Tempest Cab so the CP HAS to fit between the sides.

I agree with the door comment. Make sure you plan for moving it around. I also had wife constraints. If I had wanted a frankinpanel i would never have gotten into the house :)

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