OK... I'm coming up on the last bits of the cabinet itself. Hopefully the only thing left to do after today will be the control panel. That said, I'm having a stupidly hard time trying to glue one of the back panels in place.
The first thing I had to do was cut the edge at a 45 degree angle so that it could meet the top panel of the cabinet. I also couldn't make this panel too long because if I ever want to get the monitor out it will need to pass under this. I eyeballed it and determined about 2.5" would work. In order to make the 45 degree cut, I used some double sided tape to stick it down to a board exactly perpendicular so that I could use my compound mitre saw to cut it.
This was a little tricky to line up but not too bad. It was much harder to actually cut it because I had to go 18" and my saw can only handle about 12-13" at a time. So I cut one side with the saw tilted 45 degrees to the right, flipped it around and then set the saw to cut 45 degrees to the left and had to line everything up perfectly to complete the cut. It worked for the most part.
This is the result after making the cut:
So now I have to glue it in place and short of standing for 2 hours holding it in place (perfectly lined up mind you) I am not sure how to clamp/glue this. Right now I'm waiting for some glue to dry in my garage - I made a make shift clamping jig - but I am not sure it's going to hold.
The seam looks... OK - not totally perfect but it's fine. I'm going to fill the joint and repaint this area to make it all blend in. The most important thing is that it is level so that the back door will fit perfectly. Assuming I can get this glued up in the exact spot I want (perpendicular to the floor but level going across the cabinet) then I have to work out some stop blocks or something so that the back door panel can stay in place. I am not using hinges - the back dor will be completely removable. These are all stupid details that I never think about but always take 5x as much time.
I'm really hoping that Titebond II can set up in an hour well enough to put some clamping pressure on it... I don't want to sit around all day waiting since I actually have time to work on this today...