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| Grasshopper:
It looks fine. However, for the sake of consistency I'd have the glass covering the horizontal as well as the two vertical panels. If you don't have glass covering the horizontal panel you're likely to spill drink on it. Slightly off topic: What I think would be really cool would be a cocktail cabinet with 4 control panels - two horizontal and two vertical. You could have different control layouts at each of the 4 positions. I'm surprised no one's done this yet. For example, I'd have one of the horizontal panels with a Multi-Williams layout, and the other with a standard 2 player fighter layout (1 joystick + 7 buttons per player). I'd fit one of the vertical panels with a 4 way joystick plus 2 buttons (for Pac games), and the other vertical panel with an 8 way joystick plus 2 buttons (for everything else). You could set up a front end that would rotate the screen in 90 degree increments, and offer a different set of games for each of the 4 positions depending on the controls available. The only downside is that the extra width needed to accomodate two horizontal panels would cause the table to look a little square. But I think this is a price worth paying. |
| Tilzs:
Comments - on the cocktail that i built, I made the cp's with hinges on the bottom. I really think that is the way to go since it's really easy to open them up and get inside if you need. I can open my cps up from the outside and I have some switches inside used to turn on things such as the sound and whatnot. It's very handy. I understand how you don't like the ms pac cab style because it's kind of boxy and decided on a Australian LAI style. Only concern there is that it's going to be a little harder to construct because of the mitered and angled cuts that are going to be required to make it fit all together. Ask yourself if you are able to do this with your woodworking skills. 780 is great plenty for the length of the side, you might want to shorten that up a bit for the cocktail. The side on my cocktail is 22" which is considerably shorter than 780. You might also consider extending the top out to cover the entire end CP. If you shorten your cab sides you can probably leave the top as is and the adjustment of the sides would probably make the top big enough. I think you'd be much happier if your glass overhung the entire end CP instead of just part of it. Also if you aren't useing the standard cocktail top dimensions, which you aren't then you can't use standard glass and standard underlays. This maybe ok with yout you, my cocktail isn't standard cocktail dimensions. That being said though you may or may not want to hang the top over the 3rd cp like was suggested by grasshopper. On mine I decided not to since it would make the cocktail look more blocky and have a bit less of a classic feel to it. |
| CitznFish:
--- Quote from: Tilzs on March 07, 2004, 08:38:00 pm ---Comments - on the cocktail that i built, I made the cp's with hinges on the bottom. I really think that is the way to go since it's really easy to open them up and get inside if you need. I can open my cps up from the outside and I have some switches inside used to turn on things such as the sound and whatnot. It's very handy. I understand how you don't like the ms pac cab style because it's kind of boxy and decided on a Australian LAI style. Only concern there is that it's going to be a little harder to construct because of the mitered and angled cuts that are going to be required to make it fit all together. Ask yourself if you are able to do this with your woodworking skills. 780 is great plenty for the length of the side, you might want to shorten that up a bit for the cocktail. The side on my cocktail is 22" which is considerably shorter than 780. You might also consider extending the top out to cover the entire end CP. If you shorten your cab sides you can probably leave the top as is and the adjustment of the sides would probably make the top big enough. I think you'd be much happier if your glass overhung the entire end CP instead of just part of it. Also if you aren't useing the standard cocktail top dimensions, which you aren't then you can't use standard glass and standard underlays. This maybe ok with yout you, my cocktail isn't standard cocktail dimensions. That being said though you may or may not want to hang the top over the 3rd cp like was suggested by grasshopper. On mine I decided not to since it would make the cocktail look more blocky and have a bit less of a classic feel to it. --- End quote --- This guy knows what he's talking about. Most impressive cocktail I've seen yet. http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=16432 |
| Blakey:
I considered hinging the CP's, but I'm also considering having a slide in panel that will allow me access to the wiring and controls. I'll have a play and see what will work best/simplest. I know it's going to be harder to construct, but I'll be getting the panels CNC cut, so that will take out 99% of the headaches. The only reason I extended the length a little was to accommodate the trackball. I'm going to make another test panel with it when it arrives (today hopefully.. ahh crap, it's 5pm, guess not.) and compress it as short as possible. I know I won't be able to use standard glass, but it's cheaper to get it custom made here in Brisbane than to import a piece from the US anyway. Likewise for the underlays, my screen isn't 19" to start with, so I'll put together some custom artwork at a later stage. I did mean for the top to reach over the end CP's, not sure why I didn't fix that. I don't want to go over the side CP as I think it'll change the way it looks in a negative way. A few more revisions and I'll be there, thanks all for the feedback so far, it's been very helpful. |
| Blakey:
Oh, Tilz, three things, 1) Awesome cab 2) Your button layout on the end CP's, what's the numbering? 1 234? I plan on having 4 buttons on each end CP, but haven't decided on the layout, so many possibilities... 12 34 1 2 3 4 2 1 4 3 34 12 Or something I haven't thought of yet. 3) And the two sticks on each end CP, what's the deal with that? P1P2 or both for P1, or do you plan to have one a 4 way and one an 8 way, both wired together? |
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