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Bill Mote:
 :-[

Should have searched.  Sorry.  Knee-jerk reaction to my frustration.  At least I'm not crazy ... errr ... as crazy as I thought I was.

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SteveJ34:

--- Quote from: dot on August 31, 2004, 08:29:19 am ---OK, so I'm building my 1st MAME cabinet.  YEAH!  :-*  I'm using both the "Project Arcade" book, the information on-line at LuSiD's site and the many, many, many helpful posts in the forums.

Here's my problem.  There just isn't enough wood in 3 sheets of 3/4" MDF to build LuSiD's design.  His cabinet is 6'2" tall, but his "back" boards are a whopping 36" in total -- 26" wide and 18" tall each for the top and bottom section.  I finally figured out that the drawings don't account for the 3-1/8" the sides sit below the "real" bottom (inside) on the cabinet.  The angled top takes off some, but I'm still left with ~55" of cabinet back to cover.

Am I missing something?!

dot

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I used Lusid's plans with a few modifications.

It's been quite awhile since I did the construction but revisiting the PDF documents just now it does appear the design does not include covering the entire back. I seem to recall this was the situation and I ended up getting an extra sheet of MDF. I built mine out of 5/8" and used 1x2 stringers, wood glued, and counter sink screws for attaching sides to top, bottom, back, etc.

I think I also used 2x4s under base support rather than the MDF stringers the design plan calls for.

My back has about an 18 inch piece on top, 18-22" on the bottom, and then I made a single piece that drops in between. I attached a 1x2 stringer on the inside of the top piece and a 1x2 stringer on the inside of the insert piece and keylock on the top of the insert piece.

In this way the large section can be removed.

I've never had a problem with heat....I added chrome soffet vents on the angled piece on top.

That's what I did, hope the above helps.

Steve
DougHillman:
In the cabs I build, I'm using 1/4" hardboard (sorta like pegboard material without the holes) for the back inserts.  Saves alot of weight and hassle if you've gotta remove them.  Costs less too.



Jakobud:
I'm not sure if it will help you guys or not, but take a look on my website for my LuSid cabinet plans that I drew up.  They might help shed some light on certain aspects of the construction that are unclear in LuSids original plans.
Bill Mote:
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Holy cow those are nice.  Why in the heck didn't they include that detail in the book?!  Do you have that level of detailed for your control panel?

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