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Pac-man cocktail build finished
extendedplayarcade:
oh yeah is arcadedepot.com still in biz? Is that where you got your cabinet? I contacted arcade depot a few times and never answered back to me.
Osirus23:
I built the cabinet from scratch, only the metal control panels came from arcadedepot. I ordered them a couple of days after Christmas and got them about 10 days later.
I mounted the monitor using fabricated monitor bracket from MikesArcade.com http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=CTMONBRKTSM after finding out that standard mounting hardware won't fit in a Midway cocktail. These brackets replace the sides on the monitor and attach to the top of the cabinet in the 1/4" recess around the monitor cutout.
The stain is Minwax Dark Walnut and it has four coats of Minwax satin polyurethane.
In case anyone thinks the joystick isn't centered, it's because there are 2 pushbuttons to the right of it as well which you can't really see in the photo. I had to sacrifice some authenticity to be able to play more games than just Pac-man.
opt2not:
--- Quote from: Osirus23 on January 18, 2011, 02:33:26 pm ---I was really close to using an LCD for this build. I figured with CRTs getting rarer and rarer I should get one while they're still around, very glad I went with CRT instead.
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Good choice. CRTs will outlast an LCD and the image looks better and more authentic.