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RayB's AMUSEMENT 360 - STATUS: Almost done
menace:
looking good--do you find the decased pc too loud? I opted for decased once and would never do it again--the fans were just too loud. I guess you had space restrictions--but nothing a hammer and a jigsaw couldn't fix ;)
How is game launcher as a FE? I have never seen it running so I was curious--have you tried other FE's--any comparisons?
RayB:
--- Quote from: menace on November 14, 2005, 12:52:05 pm ---looking good--do you find the decased pc too loud?
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Yes/No. It is a little loud.
RayB:
Getting closer! Getting closer!
1. Painting is complete! Sides are white (satin finish melamine). Took two coats of super adherant grey sealer primer, then 1 coat of melamine primer and finally two coats of final melamine top coat. Sanded inbetween coats, but not enough to get a perfectly smooth finish. The end result is still acceptable.
2. Added blue t-molding. Unfortunately, turns out what I needed was 11/16" width. What I had was 3/4". There is an overlap on either side of about 1mm. It's not noticeable to the eye, so no biggie (besides, t-molding.com only carries this weird width in black).
3. I ordered a plastic bezel from Happ Controls, for 19" monitors. Well I encountered a couple problems with it. First, the center cut-out is not sized correctly for 19" monitors (maybe that's why these are on sale for $6 now?). Overall, you lose almost a whole inch in height and width.
Normally, if this cabinet were meant for one game only, this wouldn't be that big a deal, since I can squish the picture down to fit correctly, but in this case since we're dealing with multiple resolutions, some games are already squished quite a bit, and it would suck to squish them down even more just because of this bezel!
So I cut it down as best I could with my jigsaw. Not an easy task considering it's a curved shape. In the end I have a slightly uneven shape, but it shouldn't be too noticeable.
Second problem was that in cutting and fitting the bezel, I managed to get two small scratches onto the otherwise new monitor. :(
Here's the lastest photo:
RayB:
Control panel art file is now waiting for Scott at MameMarquees!
RayB:
Yesterday: Measured and cut holes for speakers. Mounted speakers and plastic speaker covers. Looks nice!
Plan for today:
- Mount amplifier circuit and knob
- cut holes for power switch
- wire sound and amp circuit