General Cocktail Cabinet Questions

[jedimason]

I'm building a cocktail cabinet and I'm going to use some of my left over computer speakers in the cabinet.  I need help finding some speaker grills to cover them.  I don't care about the size of the grill, just that it looks nice.  If I have extra room underneath the grill, I'll just put in a small vent hole as well.  If I could find ones similar to the old Ms. Pacman cabinet ones that would be great.

Also, right now I'm planning on using a left over 17inch monitor.  Any ideas on a bezel for that size or ideas on how to make one?  I know I should use a 19inch monitor, but until I can find one for under say $80 with shipping I'll have to suffice with the 17in.  

Thanks in advance for any help,
Jonny

[paigeoliver]

Many cocktails didn't have visible speaker grills and simply pointed the speaker out the bottom. All 3 I have owned have been that way.

[Ken Layton]

All the Midway cabinets I've worked with had speaker grills on them. Bob Roberts sells speaker grills.

[slicer_d]

In reference to the monitors you should be able to find one locally for less than 80.  I got mine for just under 60 via ebay it look me about 2 weeks to find a decent deal on it.

For the bezel you could just use some tinted plexi or glass and then use that thick cardstock stuff painted black and cut just to the edge of the monitor with the tint you shouldn't be able to see it at all and it should look great.  Also you could take the plastic housing off of the monitor and paint that black too you shouldnt need to worry about electric shock becuase there is a metal cage keeping you from touching the wires under the plastic.

As for speaker grills I'm just putting air conditioning vents that have been painted black and putting the speaker behind that.  Hopefully it will look alright.

[daeven]

http://www.arcadeshop.com sells Midway-style speaker grills for $9.  I bought a few of them - they look good on my cocktail cabinet.

[OSCAR]

This shows the speaker grilles I ordered from Wico in my Class of '81 cocktail.

http://www.oscarcontrols.com/speaker

[slicer_d]

http://www.arcadeshop.com sells Midway-style speaker grills for $9.  I bought a few of them - they look good on my cocktail cabinet.

daeven could you tell me what the general dimensions are of those vents?  I already have some holes for ac vents that look pretty good but I like the originals more but I dont know if they will fit.

Thansk
Slicer_D

[martini]

I used 3" soffit vents I bought at Menards.  I think they were $6 for 4 of them.  I had to paint them black but they were exactly what I was looking for.

[Tilzs]

or you could just go with no speaker grills at all and use a router to make some slots for speaker and vent.

[daeven]

The arcadeshop.com covers are designed to match up with the mounting holes on 5x9" speakers.  The size of the part (from memory) is close to (but not quite) 5" x 9".  I will try to remember to measure and post exact size tonight.

[slicer_d]

The arcadeshop.com covers are designed to match up with the mounting holes on 5x9" speakers.  The size of the part (from memory) is close to (but not quite) 5" x 9".  I will try to remember to measure and post exact size tonight.

Cool I would appreciate the dimensions.  The current hole I have is about 4x8 so hopefully I can put them over it.