How build in LCD monitor?

[one8seven]

Hi guys,

Finaly find a new LCD monitor for my midway cab : http://www.asus.com/Display/LCD_Monitors/VE258Q/

Can you guide me on how to build in/mount an LCD into an arcade cab?

Thanks in advance,

one8seven

[GregD]

There are many different ways to do this.  Some use VESA Mounts.  Some use the VESA mounting holes to screw to a piece of wood running across the cabinet.  Some just screw the monitor down by the stand onto a shelf.  You can decase it and use brackets but that is probably not necessary.

[BobA]

If you do make 100mm by 100mm holes in a board and mount it in your cab on cleats or brackets you will probably have to get 4 M4 screws of the proper length to mount the screen.  These are metric and available at many hardware or bolt and screw stores.   The screws go into the screen about 10mm so you will need 10mm plus whatever the thickness of your material is.

[one8seven]

Ok thanks for the quick replies guys!
Perhaps any pics or videos arround here?

[BobA]

Picture

[ghettodish]

Here's a pic of one of mine. It has a board on back with the vesa screws going thru it.

[ghettodish]

more photos here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1713239003840.177767.1624114154&type=1

[wizkid32]

I plan on securing mine with pieces of wood going across the cab, if that's helpful...

[one8seven]

Ok, seems VESA is the way to go. Thanks for the help!

[fenring]

Ok, seems VESA is the way to go. Thanks for the help!

I thought that I would go that way with my monitor at first. I decided to go with this instead.

It's pretty straightforward because I built the width of the cabinet to accept the width of a 27" monitor with about 1/4" on each side. Since my cabinet was already laminated and assembled, drilling all the way through the sides wasn't going to happen. All I had to do was build a base for it, then keep it from tipping back and side to side. The glass fits flush with the face of the monitor and is braced from pushing against the monitor too forcefully with it's own blocks.

It's functional, not pretty. Then again, I'm the only one who sees this side of it...besides all of you.

[HanoiBoi]

You don't have to drill through the sides of the cab from the outside.

I joined my LCD monitor to a horizontal piece of wood via VESA mount.  The width of the wood matches the width of the inside of the cab.  Then, similar to fenring's photo, I glued and screwed smaller 'blocks' of wood to the inside of the cab, from the inside.  After that, I could mount the monitor/wood to those blocks by screwing wood to wood.

You just have to be sure on your measurements so that your monitor doesn't end up too close or too deep.