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Rotate a TV??
rurdy4me:
Would you or could you rotate a Color TV in a cabinet as long as it had enough air pushing it. I'm using a 19" tv and horizontal games look fine but of course vertical games would look a lot better if tv was rotated.
Thenasty:
You can rotate anything as long as you have the room. Also when a monitor is rotated after its ben turned, it will discolor, so need to either wait for 30 minitues then turn monitor back on, or get a degaussing coil and use that.
Lilwolf:
before you start.. I've heard it will take more time to rotate your monitor then the time to build the rest of your cabinet... by far...
make sure it physically can be rotated in your cabinet. The diagonals will be the issue.
Then take your TV you want to use and turn it on a table (after it's been on for a few hours) and see what it's like. Make sure you can get rid of the bleeding when you turn it off/on or degausing (like above).
then search on the example pages on rotating monitors. Some great ones out there.
I personally like cutting a round piece of plywood and attaching it inside that. Then on a slight angle back, add some wheels on the board or your cabinet... Then add some at the bottom. You you have a few wheels on the outside of the wooden wheel (bottom and slightly on the side).... but the wheel itself leans slightly back, and there are wheels on the back.
Then to turn it... some ropes that wrap around it a 1/2 turn, the go out the top.. So when you pull on one cord, it rotates it... then stops when the other cord's knot gets to the top.... then pull on the other to make it 'right'.
Paladin:
Check this out - I found it surfing the web. It seems like a pretty simple solution, with the only problem I see being if the monitor is on a steep angle it will have to be made not to fall out:
http://reachdisability.org/tetra/projects/tv_tiller_page.html
Frostillicus:
how does a degaussing coil work? is that permanently attached to the monitor?
also, that Tv Tiller thing looks like a nice solution - has anyone tried something like that mounted on an angle? I'm all about pushing a button and watching the monitor rotate 90 deg's. :)