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T-molding, laminate, half cabinet? OH NO!
P-chan:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on April 18, 2012, 08:51:01 pm ---PBJ... 21st century Nostradamus.
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I don't know what that means. :dunno
//edit : after reading around, apparently the plummeting in price of flat panel TV's and associated mounts led pinballjim to foretell lots of pedestals being made? :laugh:
P-chan:
--- Quote from: Le Chuck on April 18, 2012, 09:29:21 pm ---T-Molding.com has the slot cutter you need and is a good place to get your t-molding. One stop shopping FTW.
That's a lot of space. I might play with a pedestal design but if you're going with that you should lose the back lit static marquee and drop in a monitor so you can display controls, game data, and a game specific marquee when you're playing. That would be the cat's ass. Check WP34's current TRON Legacy build for ideas. Also, your coin door looks a bit low on the mock-up.
--- Quote from: Nephasth on April 18, 2012, 08:51:01 pm ---PBJ... 21st century Nostradamus.
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It's scary but true.
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I've thought about dropping in a monitor. I wish I could (cheaply) rewire a gutted 10" laptop LCD that I have to accept a VGA signal and some sort of power input, but it'll cost me at least $30 for the VGA board and a few more bucks for a powersupply for it - might as well buy a used 15" instead. If I can get someone to donate a small LCD monitor to me I'm going to certainly do that. I don't want to jack up the cost of this project any more.
Honestly I hadn't really thought about making it wider, but that makes complete sense. The control panel is only 32" wide...I could easily go to 40" or larger without too much trouble. I'm going to make a mockup CP with foam core and play with the width a bit. I just got my u360s and buttons from Ultimarc. Stupidly I forgot to add the wiring harness for the buttons, I didn't notice it was "optional" :banghead:
mcseforsale:
Let us know if you start a project announcement. I'm in for some readin!!
:w00t :w00t
AJ