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bobbyb13:
Thank you all. :cheers:

The artwork call is a tough one for these- especially since I should only wind up with one of them in the end anyway?

The third one I'm going to try to shoehorn a 19" tube in vertically and put in an old 4in1 jamma board, 4 way stick, and 1 button.
I had a few small pieces of bug gut green T-molding laying around anyway so figured that would go nicely with some Galaga side art for a classic look for that one.

The other two horizontal ones I really can't make up my mind about.
They will probably just get some odd T-molding for a bit while I wait for something to occur to me or for someone to request something specific that I can have printed up and put on the second one.

I'm making them to put in my buddy's girlfriend's shop just for the vibe but you never know, somebody might want to buy one of them?
:dunno

Zebidee:
Love this, so glad you're squeezing CRTs in there :applaud:

bobbyb13:
Well...
It seems like a great idea to keep a tube in it until you try to carry the damn thing.
:)
Must be 80 lbs complete.
Anyway, on with the vertical orientation one!

Remembered that I had this 4in1 board (how old must this be?!) and this seemed like a great use for it.
Ms. Pac, Frogger, DK, and Galaga.

Got a few shielded isolation transformers because this is so shoehorned together that I discovered that an unshielded one was making the image do the hula.

Sideart on, T molding in and it starts to look like a reasonable facsimile:

Of course then there is one of the least fun parts of the whole building your own stuff- bezel/surround/whatever you want to hide the inside of the machine with.
I was NOT in the mood to get crazy with this one so I tried to think of what would be easy.
1/4" plywood seemed like a great idea.
And then you try to get a decent start on the parabolic curves of the stupid tube perimeter and figure out that this approach may be as ridiculous as all the other crap you have done so far.

I hope all the 19" tubes are this same stupid shape and I can just trace my pattern in case I get this dumb idea again.

After what seemed like a half hour of shaving and sanding I finally got something that fits well.
Biggest issue with this approach was having to go so damn slowly because once you take the wood off it is gone forever.
But the silly thing fits.

The next thing I hadn't thought at all about is how the hell do I hope to get speakers in here since I turned the tube vertically in a cabinet I designed for a horizontal 19".
Can't go above so must go beside.
Anchoring them was a head scratcher since I didn't want to screw with how nice and clean the smooth surround was going to wind up and then I thought "why not just epoxy some machine screws to the backside of the thing?"
Cut holes for the speakers, try to bullseye where the screws should go, and then get out the glue.

Paint the thing up, put a little screen over the holes so that some punk kid can't stick their finger through the cones, and then bolt them up.
Damn, they fit.

I'll spare everybody the process of glassing the control panel.
Love the finish that it produces though.
Controls wind up easy with just those four games.
Ambidextrous even.

And the first one is complete.

Now if I could just make up my mind about all the crap on the other two I could send these somewhere and clear out some space.

Mike A:
Well isn't that pretty?

Nice work.

pbj:
How am I supposed to play Street Fighter 2 on that?

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