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| LD1984:
Hello. This is my first topic posted here on this FINE website. You should all be proud to be part of such an awesome community. I salute you all. Now to my question: You see, I'm in college. Here at school, my friends and I try to compete to have cooler items in our dorm rooms. Next year, my roommate and I are moving into a place with bigger rooms. The opposing room is getting a stripper pole in their room. I was thinking that the only way to combat that is to finally go with my dream of owning a MAME cabinet. Here's the problem: Our room is going to be on the second story of the building. Also, this cabinet will have to travel many miles in order to get to said dorm room, as I live afew hours away. Do you think it would be worth it to build a cabinet that can make the journey (stairs included) for the goodness of my room? Are my dreams just too big!? Let's hear some responses. Who knows? Maybe we'll all come up with the plans for the most portible MameCabinet ever...with hinges and secret doors! Maybe likes a transformer or something! |
| dommer:
Well, the ultimate arcade plans (which I used as a basis) can be modified to split into 2 parts very easily. Rather than affix the top to the bottom permanently, just I just use 4 bolts. Here's the final result... I think it's got a stripper pole beat: http://stormclan.servebeer.com/mame/ It's fairly easy to make a cabinet modular. Or, if you dont want to do that, you can build the parts, dry test it for fit, and then stack up the panels and assemble in your dorm room. |
| Nailz:
Welcome! If you want something a bit more portable I would suggest looking at doing a cocktail cab or even a bartop cab, for such a small space as yours, that would be the way to go. |
| zaphod:
Bartop. |
| Tilzs:
A full cab would win in the "coolest" factor. A cocktail however would still be plenty cool and might work a bit better in a small space. Also has the added advantage of serving as a desk |
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