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First cab - Space City Arcade - almost finished

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Kiatuthlanna:
Thanks. I just checked out those ServoStiks and they look pretty awesome. I might have gone with those if I'd known about them sooner. I checked out the mounting dimensions and I could possibly do a conversion of my existing sticks with just a bit of routing if i ever decide to. That may actually be a better option than a second panel anyway. Hmmm... another project. Thanks for mentioning those to me. Those must have come out shortly after I ordered all my parts.

Kiatuthlanna:
I got to work on the cab today for the first time in quite a while. I finally wired the control panel. It took a while but wasn't too hard. The only hiccup was that I wasn't thinking clearly and reversed the horizontal and vertical connections for the joysticks on the first go around. That wasn't too hard to fix. I decided to hinge the panel from the back as it is easy enough to open the box slightly and unclip the latch that releases the box from the cabinet.

I also mounted the speakers on the bottom of the marquee. Nothing fancy here, they're just held in by friction with some small pieces of MDF.

I went back and forth on my plan for the monitor. Originally, I had planned on building a shelf for the monitor to sit on because I was worried about the weight if it were simply mounted through the MDF side walls. In the end, I ended up creating a heavy duty block by combining three pieces of 3/4 MDF using Gorilla Glue and using a VESA mount. I'm not confident that this solution will hold without some additional reinforcement so I'm planning on building a couple of pine ribs to keep it nice and sturdy. Also, after looking at the cab with the monitor mounted, I'm thinking that I may actually remount the monitor about 2 inches higher than I have it here and just filling in the old holes with Bondo.

The last major thing I have left to do is to design the side art. I've gone back and for so many times with a few ideas but haven't yet come up with something I like that fits with my theme.

Kiatuthlanna:
I finally got to work on the cab again this weekend. 

The first thing I did was laminate the sides. This was a bit harder than laminating the smaller pieces I had done where I essentially just stuck the mdf down on the laminate sitting on a work bench. For the side panels, I followed an example by Epyx, and used scrap wood to keep the sides separate and then slowly applied the two sides together by removing one piece of the scrap wood at a time. That ended up working pretty well, though I had to do this outside and it was a bit windy, so it wasn't ideal.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,96465.msg1026504.html#msg1026504.

Next, I laminated the marquee top panel and installed it. With all of the front and side panels in place, I added the T-molding. Finally, I built a mount for the plexiglass using 90 angle aluminum and some adhesive backed weather stripping for padding. Even though I'm not quite done, I couldn't help but set up everything and play a game or two.

All I've got left now is to install the speaker covers, cover the reveals on the inside of the side panels, install the back panels, create the bezel, and clean up the computer mount in the cabinet. I'm hoping to finish up next weekend and am super excited.

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