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First cabinet, currently unnamed (Update 10/19/10: It's Alive!)
Avrus:
--- Quote from: GoingIncognito on August 14, 2010, 12:38:02 pm ---Here's a render of the control panel that I printed out at actual size so that we could overlay it on to the actual control panel to make sure everything is properly spaced.
The top row of buttons are as follows: Coin 1, Player 1 Start, Admin, Player 2 Start, Coin 2. Not shown are the two buttons mounted on the side of the cabinet for Pinball, etc (they are shown in the renders above anyway).
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Not that it matters but your trackball in the diagram is rotated 90 degrees clockwise. It should be rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise.
Edit: Erm in addition not sure if the diagram is to scale but it doesn't look like you have 3.25 inches from the center of your trackball to the edge of the control panel for the mounting plate. Looks like about 2 inches. In addition the mounting plate would overlap player 1 buttons 3 and 6. Based on the diagram you have there I don't believe you'll be able to use a mounting plate if you're wanting a trackball on that size of control panel.
Edit2: I see you went with the 2 1/4" trackball I don't see the mount plate dimensions on the Ultimarc site but I would assume it's between 5" square and 5.5" square.
GoingIncognito:
--- Quote from: Avrus on August 18, 2010, 07:45:08 pm ---Not that it matters but your trackball in the diagram is rotated 90 degrees clockwise. It should be rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise.
Edit: Erm in addition not sure if the diagram is to scale but it doesn't look like you have 3.25 inches from the center of your trackball to the edge of the control panel for the mounting plate. Looks like about 2 inches. In addition the mounting plate would overlap player 1 buttons 3 and 6. Based on the diagram you have there I don't believe you'll be able to use a mounting plate if you're wanting a trackball on that size of control panel.
Edit2: I see you went with the 2 1/4" trackball I don't see the mount plate dimensions on the Ultimarc site but I would assume it's between 5" square and 5.5" square.
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After reading your post I went and laid the printout down and placed the mounting plate on top of it. You're right in that the mounting plate interferes with player 1 button 6, but it doesn't appear to get in the way of button 3. Regardless there's going to have to be some tweaking done. Thanks for the heads up, I didn't notice this until you said something and since I haven't made a test panel (or even laid out the actual controls) I didn't realize there was some overlap. Hopefully I can get this sorted out tonight or tomorrow. The trackball in the layout is actually a Happ 3", not the Ultimarc 2 1/4". Martoon had the model of the Happ on his computer already so used that as a placeholder until I could bring over the real trackball.
I have all the components out of the case now and am just positioning them for mounting on the rear door. The power button and power/HD LEDs were a PITA to remove from the case and required me to use channel locks to remove a thin brass nut that held the assembly into the case. I managed to break one of the two small tabs holding the power pushbutton into the button front, but it all still holds nicely with just the one tab so I'm not too worried. Even so a little glue would fix it, if necessary. I forgot how heavy the heatsink and fan are for the processor. 90% of the weight of the motherboard is all from that. Since the motherboard is going to be vertical a majority of the time I need to make sure it's mounted very securely.
GoingIncognito:
Update! Been real busy and didn't have much time to work on the project, but the past week I had some free time so I finished finished mounting all the PC components to the rear door.
I still have to wire everything up, but that's relatively easy and I was relatively lazy last night :P. There are three fans not shown in this picture as well. One intake fan which will go on the right-hand side wall, one exhaust fan which will go on the left-hand side wall, and I may mount an additional smaller exhaust fan which will go on the top of the cabinet to pull rising heat out. Most of the cabling will go along the right-hand side (the top of the picture as shown) where all the ports on the motherboard are.
Just a side view showing the motherboard standoffs and hard drive and power supply mounting brackets. I used a small amount of Gorilla Glue in the holes that the standoffs were screwed into because I didn't think they would hold well by themselves since they were threaded for metal. I screwed in the L-brackets for the power supply like I did to provide a little more leverage since the unit will be horizontal when the door is closed. You can't see the support bracket on the rear side which will help hold the unit "down" and provide a place for the rear to rest when the door is folded down.
Close up of the hard drive mounting brackets. I had to screw the L-brackets down underneath the hard drive due to space constraints, plus I think it looks nicer (yes, I shined a flashlight underneath for the picture).
Picture showing one of three "MacGyver Standoffs" I had to make since my motherboard had nine mounting points but I only had six standoffs. I made the standoffs with a nylon spacing nut Gorilla Glued to a small washer (to add a smidge more height), which is then in turn glued down to the plywood with more Gorilla Glue. After drying over night the bond was strong, and I was able to screw the mobo down using some appropriately sized screws. These standoffs are virtually identical in height to the proper standoffs.
Here's the cabinet with monitor installed behind bezel, just missing the control panel.
Here's a rear shot of the cabinet with the door off (it's at my house!) showing the monitor on the shelf, and the space underneath.
Reworked button placement, everything should fit properly now. Ignore the lack of the 7th button, it's there...just..uh, invisible! The light tan area is the usable control panel space. The control panel is actually bigger than the tan area, but can't really be used for placement of anything due to the bracing underneath the control panel.
Martoon worked up this render of the control panel using Rom's Character Fusion art that I like so much. Nifty, huh? Look, there's that 7th button! It was previously invisible, but now is totally visible. See!
Another big thanks to Martoon for letting me use his garage and for lending me his absolutely mad graphic skills :).
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Nice work! :applaud:
GoingIncognito:
Update!
Here's the control panel template being pieced together:
Here's the template having all drill and screw points center punched for drilling:
Drilling button holes:
Test fitting buttons:
I also mounted the rear door to the rest of cabinet and put all the buttons in the control panel to make sure everything fits nicely. I didn't take pictures of it, but it sure looks nice :)!