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To Frame, or not to Frame?
Gamecab:
I also built a 1 UP Cab but had not sway to it and I was glad for that. I made my 1UP from 3/4 MDF, 1X1's as 1Up suggested and about 2 billion very corse threaded screws which were all pre-drilled and counter sunk into the 1x1's. I also think that joining the pieces with liquid nails also helped.
My First Cabinet on the other hand had a dangerous sway to it but that's another story for a different thread..
paigeoliver:
The monitor shelf or mounting stuff, along with the control panel and the extra wood in the marquee area pretty much eliminates the need for a frame.
Real cabinets don't have frames.
hyiu:
ohh... and for the monitor sagging....
I just realized that most of your guys are simply mounting the monitor inside the cab... (so... the monitor position has a rectangular hole... and the monitor sits there and the whole frame is supporting the weight.... (that might be a better case since the weight is distributed a little more evenly....
on my cab... I'm simply using a computer mon (completely intact....) and the monitor is standing on a shelf.... so... for me... the weight is more concenttrated in the middle... and harder on the wood... (that's why I added the metal bar...)
Santoro:
--- Quote from: 1UP on March 09, 2004, 03:56:04 pm ---My cab doesn't have a frame and it is solid. It does use 1x1's to join the sides.......
{snip}.....Also, I am talking to a builder about having my cabinets mass-produced, and he says a frame isn't necessary at all if you put the panels together correctly (he recommends using dadoes.)
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How do you connect the 1x1's to the sides? {edit -never mind- found it on your website. thx}
(Thinking out loud here......)
I am also thinking about dadoes. I have the tools required, but am not sure where I would use dadoes. I imagine on the bottom, middle "shelf", and top is where most would do it. But I think I am going to rig up a 2x4 mounting apparatus for the monitor instead of a shelf. Would that provide adequate stiffening of the frame? Would the bottom dado be able to take all of the downward forces from the sides? I would probably need to shore it up with ledgers or something.
By the time I do all that, I might as well have built a frame!
Sounds like I need to experiment a bit.
Santoro:
Ressurecting a dead thread here....
I have started work on a frameless cab, and I have to say that my worries about sway were probably unfounded. I am using ledgers and not dadoes, and it seems really sturdy nonetheless.
As an added bonus, it is a lot easier to build this way!
Just for the record.