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DaOld Man:
How about a slim cabinet with big rollers so it moves easy, remove all the shelves from the alcove, and just push the cab back into it when you are not using it, then pull it out a couple of feet when you do want to use it?
Read some of darthpauls automated cab project, you could rig up an actuator that would push the cab out of the wall and pull it back into the wall at the flip of a switch.
Donkbaca:
I think wheels on a cab are a bad idea, if i had to roll the thing out everytime I wanted to play with it, it would just never get used. My, is that if its in a closet, it will stay in the closet and not get much use.
FWIW, just build a LCD bar top with a 19 inch screen, there are a ton of those. I would make sure I got a good screen though, a lot of LCD's laid vertical like that look like ass because of the viewing angles.
Le Chuck:
Terminus is slim, and would fit the bill if you went with the original wall mount design (which I always favored as better anyway).
Blinkey:
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So are you wanting to build a regular width, bartop height, slim depth cabinet or am I missing something?
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Yes, i guess that almost sums it up, Although many of the slim cabinets like terminus have the flat screen "in your face" upright to make it slim. I can hopefully allow for a little more depth to angle the screen backwards and downwards more.
yotsuya:
--- Quote from: Blinkey on March 06, 2012, 10:15:12 am ---The idea is : a few low, deep shelves for the books etc. then the cab placed on on the top of the shelves. A bartop would be ideal, but my idea is for a bigger, deeper bartop where the screen can "lay back" at more of an angle away from the controls. Picture just the top half of a PAC man cab. Probably a 19" screen, probably vertical for real old school games.
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