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Family room friendly cab: The Armoircade
newmanfamilyvlogs:
Stained and polyurethaned:
Though I realized to my disappointment that the pencil line for the original monitor position didn't get sanded off before it got sprayed. Only a few inches of it will show on either side after the bezel is in place, so hopefully it won't be too much of an eyesore.
Lewis Black:
Pretty cool!
newmanfamilyvlogs:
After letting the stained cabinet 'air out' for a few weeks, I believe this to be the finished state of construction. Cabinet hardware has been installed, a service hatch cut in the back for access to monitor controls, and the monitor screwed into place:
Hopefully I should be able to bring it home in the next few days.
Having some issues with the light guns, however. They are Act Labs PC USB guns, and putting them in calibrate mode produces a black image with a single white bar across the top. One day I'd like to replace them with an Aimtrack setup, but for now if I can't get them to work I don't mind waiting.
opt2not:
Wow, this thing is turning out great!
Arcade Incognito! I love how you still made it functional as a storage unit.
Are you planning on putting tinted plexi/glass in front of the monitor? I think it would look pretty slick having some in there to cover up the space in front of the bezel.
Oh, what would be also cool is if you wired the power switch somehow, so that when you pulled out the CP drawer, the machine turned on by itself! Just a thought. ;)
newmanfamilyvlogs:
I've thought about the glass a lot. I loved the look of the smoked glass in my first cabinet. I'm not sure how to mount it in this one though. I don't want to have to dismantle too much if I ever need to take the monitor out, so I'm hesitant to fix glass in place. As it stands the bezel is secured with bits of black velcro. I thought about making a thin wood frame that sandwiches the bezell and glass and then use velcro in that too.. but im just not sure yet.
As for the cp switch I actuall thought about that some early on. My concern was that's just one more complication to go wrong. Maybe one day though.