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Best hinges for cabinet lower back panel? (re: Project Arcade cabinet)
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hyiu:

--- Quote from: rdagger on June 25, 2004, 01:05:00 pm ---
Magnets can be damaging to monitors, hard drives, disks, etc...
You can just put a small wood lip on the lower portion of the door to hold it in place and then some type of  latch or lock on the top.

If you really want hinges, you could use lift-off hinges.  They work like a regular hinge except you can lift the door and the hinges come apart so the door can be removed like on a jeep.

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well... if you put a magnet next to a monitor... then yes,  you can cause discoloring effect...

but to be honest.... you'll need a VERY POWERFUL electromagnetic field to distrub hard dirves or other stuffs...
a STRONG MAGNET CATCH MAGNET simply will NOT be strong enough to cause any harm....

I have numerous magnetic catch in my cab now.... (cos my front and back can be opened...) and no effect whatsoever....

not that I'm forcing anyone to use magnetic catch....
but our day to day use magnets (even heavy duty ones...) will NOT cause any effects on appliances....
sofakng:
Ok, I bought four "Double Magnetic Catches"...  It looks like there are three magnetic strips inside of these.  I plan to plan two of these on each side of the cabinet.

I was really unsure which kind of latch/hinge to get.  I wanted a way to completed remove the panel so really my only options were velcro and these magnetic catches.

I'm still a bit worried about them interefering with the TV or the computer.  Are you sure they won't cause any problems?  Suppose I take the case off my TV?  The back of the TV is going to be right above the back panel containing the magnets...

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