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| Lexiq:
Probably a long shot, but the seller may have forgotten to include it and might be willing to send it. $30 is not a bad price for the coin mechs alone. You could get something like this, which is less expensive because it doesn't have coin mechs, and transplant the ones that you have: https://www.arcaderenovations.com/suzo-happ-double-entry-arcade-coin-door-home-mame.html I think the doors and mechs are fairly standard and everything should fit, but I'm not 100% sure. That link has a diagram - you'd need to check the dimensions carefully. Others may be able to advise. |
| minorhero:
--- Quote from: Lexiq on October 28, 2023, 08:26:19 pm ---Probably a long shot, but the seller may have forgotten to include it and might be willing to send it. $30 is not a bad price for the coin mechs alone. You could get something like this, which is less expensive because it doesn't have coin mechs, and transplant the ones that you have: https://www.arcaderenovations.com/suzo-happ-double-entry-arcade-coin-door-home-mame.html I think the doors and mechs are fairly standard and everything should fit, but I'm not 100% sure. That link has a diagram - you'd need to check the dimensions carefully. Others may be able to advise. --- End quote --- Sadly it was not still around. That said, I am not going to worry about the frame. I can still attach the door and I won't be really trying to make it swing open. The whole kick panel will actually be a door for computer access. Or such is my plan right now. Meanwhile, I finally got my plywood in. This involved renting a truck and having to buy 3 panels of plywood instead of 2 because my cabinet is over 24 inches wide, but otherwise was uneventful. My design allows me to get both sides out of a single sheet, so there was that. For the first side I used my sketchup drawing as reference and drew outline on the plywood. Then using a combination of track saw and jig saw, cut it out. I sanded it and smoothed the curves, then used the first side to draw the outline for the 2nd side. I rough cut that side out of the remaining plywood. Then I clamped the 2 sides together and used a pattern bit on a router to make the 2nd side perfectly match the first. Doing this method meant I didn't need to perfectly copy the 2nd side from a drawing but could instead rely on the pre-existing side as my model. Unfortunately I used crappy plywood :P So my plywood had some dents and chipout. I sanded it and filled the bad areas with putty. And that's as far as I got today. Next up will be all the square pieces. |
| minorhero:
Slot cutters are cool. I used this freud one. I slot cut both side panels and cut down all of the 2nd sheet of plywood and enough of the third sheet that I should be in a good place going forward. |
| minorhero:
It's 3 dimensional now! After I took this picture I realized I forgot to drill speaker holes :P Better I realize it now then later I suppose. I have some old computer speakers I am going to test out, and if they work, incorporate in this build. It shouldn't be too hard to drill for them even now: |
| firedance:
Great work so far, keep it up 8) |
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