javeryh's Small-ish Bartop ["Jack Attack!"]

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Drnick:
I think there are a couple of people in the Art section that can probably help you out in that respect :) :cheers: By the way, very nice work so far. I am Impressed with the choice of unique theme over generic art.

javeryh:

--- Quote from: Drnick on June 23, 2018, 07:33:37 pm ---I think there are a couple of people in the Art section that can probably help you out in that respect :) :cheers: By the way, very nice work so far. I am Impressed with the choice of unique theme over generic art.

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Thanks - I'm hoping this comes out 1/2 as nice as I picture it in my head. Art is like 90% of a successful project... then playability... OK maybe not that bad but to me art makes or breaks a project.

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Alright... today I'm trying to make some real progress. I am officially in over my head after decasing the monitor. There is practically nothing inside but my guess is as long as I keep everything connected I shouldn't have any issues. Here are some pics of the inside:

This is what it looked like after opening it up. Due to the ribbon cables I couldn't even separate the pieces of plastic for the bezel - I had to remove the control panel and the circuit board from the back panel first.

I will need to use some double sided tape to hold the circuit board against the back of the monitor.

There are rubber pads and clips holding the monitor in place against the front bezel. I wonder if I can reuse this somehow... my plan right now is to just tape the monitor to the back of the glass. This will make things flush and assuming I can figure out how to keep the glass from moving I think it will work.

I'm also in the process of painting the cabinet. I disassembled everything and one coat of primer has been sprayed on the interior faces of all of the panels (including the CP because I'm an idiot - I have to round over the front edge before doing anything with it). I'll sand and do one more coat before flipping everything over to do the exterior faces. I don't really care how things look on the inside so I started there. I hate painting.

Mike A:
Can of worms opened.

javeryh:

--- Quote from: Mike A on June 24, 2018, 01:30:08 pm ---Can of worms opened.

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Haha yup. One of my goals for this build was to actually learn something so I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone...

DaOld Man:
You could possibly run a couple of flat aluminum stock pieces across the top and bottom of that plate. sandwich the screen between the aluminum flats and the plexi, with double sided tape holding the screen to the flats until you got the plexi in. You could then attach the flats to the inside of the cabinet with aluminum angle pieces. (all this is available at Lowes).
Attach angles to the inside wood sides using threaded inserts.
Or instead of flat stock, you could run aluminum angle, then you could notch out for that ribbon cable.

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