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DHTech:

Thanks for all the advice, I hadn't thought too much about door widths, I think i'm going for 610mm (24") with the side included it's 647mm (25.5"), so should slide through the doorways without too much trouble.

chucklepie:

I'm using 18mm MDF and the internal (i.e. the width allowed for an embedded control panel or monitor) is 660mm (i.e. total width is 696mm).

This is sufficient for a control panel with two players with 6 buttons and a trackball. It will also fit through most doors (about 700mm). I don't like cabinets with oversized CP's, they just look wrong.

Here's my depth/height too. Note, this is easily big enough for a 24inch monitor but would only fit a CRT if the screen was taken out of the case



brihyn:

Just to echo the wise advice already given, it should be at least 1/8" less than the width of your doorway.....not that I personally had to tear a few pieces of mine apart on the patio outside of the basement sliding glass doors or anything.....

eds1275:

I tend to like cabinets that have the control panel in between the sides of the machine and not extending outward. My big one, still unfinished  :cry: uses an lcd and is only 24 " deep front to back. Side to side it is 30" which is the width of most of my interior doors but it slides through nicely side end first.

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Dawgz Rule:

Does it go to 11?

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