CNC my eye... Give me a few clamps and a SkilSaw!
I like your attitude!
Dunno where you find the time!
Is this going in next to your SF Rush double?
Covid chaos work-wise has given me time recently.
Everyone around us seems to be sick and our household keeps coming out clean.
I haven't actually paid attention to the height of this cabinet versus the other cabs up there so I don't know if it will be upstairs or live down in the workshop really!
Hope it fits up in the loft without wrecking the feng shui of the joint but if it lives down below I can live with that.
I had (made!) a few hours to work on it after dinner today so made some progress again.
Having a good table saw and a bevel square makes a remarkable difference in construction speed.
I'm still trying to figure out if I will be covering the sides with white vinyl or formica before the artwork gets put on but I couldn't wait any more to keep building.
Stitched the sides to the base and added the top-most panel so that I could get it standing.
Another consequence of designing as I go is that I will need to trim the base sheet by 3/4" on the front edge to accomodate the toe kick-panel.
Maybe next cabinet I can get the base right the first time?!
I decided that I will build the coin door/pedal box into the cabinet rather than cut the back portion of the kick panel around it.
Seemed like it would be more stable that way (although the sides of it wind up this kind of quadralateral/ trapezoidal kinda thing that will be interesting to get cut properly.)
There are so many little panels for this cabinet that it is nuts.
Since this thing is never going to live in an arcade where I need to worry about people thrashing it I can leave out some of the detail of the original really.
The dimensions are such that if for some reason I wind up with a proper Paperboy boardset I could install it all, but I won't be holding my breath for that.
The other thing is that I can't see the metal control panel of the original really being necessary either.
I beefed up where the CP will sit enough that it shouldn't be moving at all and I will add a strongback along the rear edge once I see how the controller and monitor fill the space.
If for some reason I need to rout out a spot and drop a metal plate in I can do it.
I have glued and braced the front part of the control panel to the top also so that I can round off the edge like the authentic metal panel and have an assembly that won't move around during play.
It will be screwed into the blocking so that I can remove it also, in case it needs to be worked on (or even redesigned because I missed something) and the screws should keep it in place easily.
It is getting two 4" speakers that will not be behind one of the original style grills that are as wide as the cabinet.
Again, no need to sweat the abuse that thing was built to stand.
After building a decent number of these things now I can see how you really don't need much to make them solid and functional.
Still haven't decided what system will be running the game.
I believe I have another PC that I could use but this is only going to play Paperboy at this point (maybe also Road Blasters in the future with a panel swap?) so maybe a RPi build would be in order.
Still haven't built one of those up yet so no clue how the Paperboy emulation is there and how integrating the potentiometers would work.
Any wisdom on the details of an R-Pi build vs, PC for this case would be appreciated!