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ButeLegz:

It's actually a 20"! It was always gonna be a tight fit but I had to extend the wood base by 7cm/3" to give it ample clearance. Part of the restoration including re-laminating the base so the join is totally hidden, you can see in the last photo where I haven't fully attached the black laminate yet. Once I figure out how to get verticals to play full screen top to bottom as possible, they'll be pretty much as big as they were with the original 31cm vertically mounted. It looks cool with the smoked plexi... you can't tell how big it is till you power the sucker up!

RetroBorg:

Personally, I don't like cocktail cabinets that have the controls pointing at the player rather than the ceiling, my favourite cocktail cabinet design is the Australian Leisure & Allied designed tables that look similar to this one that you can purchase at OzStick.




Minwah:


--- Quote from: ButeLegz on March 11, 2004, 07:41:42 am ---Ha ha! I looove this style of cab, mostly because we've got heaps of 'em here in OZ... I scored one a while back with plans to change the vertical controls to a more wrist friendly angle. I've done most of the major structural stuff... the new control boxes are also detachable so player 2 can jump round to player 1's side & kick his ass at Street Fighter!

I put a slightly larger screen in too. As well as dominating my memories of arcade machines, this style takes up less room than other types of cocktails I have seen... but that also means less room for all the computer parts you've gotta fit. Unless you've got a particular affinity to 'em there's probably easier options...

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That looks great :)  I wasn't sure how the control panels would turn out (I've looked on your site before) but you've done a great job there, looks really as if it was 'made' that way :)

Mickey Juice:

Yeah those controls look great Mr Feldman ;)
Are you going to update with the plans anytime soon? I need some ideas as i'm up to the same stage with my MAME project and it's proving to be the hardest part!
I've got a *very* similar cab to yours, got it on eBay from Adelaide...

Edgedamage:

Here's what I have to work with.

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