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Jukebox nearly finished - more photos
MiKman:
looking pretty darn cool. I like to see what people do to make jukeboxes. looks like you can get some pretty good curvature out of soaking a peice of plywood. How thick is it?
clonestar:
Hi Guys
Just to answer your questions walls83, and you might want to sit down before reading the next line - At the moment I am not planning to have a Marquee! The main job for this cab is as a jukebox and the marquee is not necessarily in keeping with the look. The intention is to have the Vpinmame as a sort of hidden feature. I have a small collection of pinballs (about 16 mostly bally from the early eighties) that I will shortly be opening up to the public. Everyone who comes always mentions a particular game from their youth and I thought it would be nice for them to be able to play a virtual game on their favourite machine. But now you have me thinking and I might incorporate a marquee between the top speakers. The would be no problem with space as I could route out a slot for the strip light and there are two more layers to go in front of the speakers anyway. One of hardboard with cutouts covered by audio transparent black speaker cloth and one mostly cosmetic layer of metallic grill.
MiKman the curved ply is about 1/2 inch thick, the rest of the cab is 3/4 inch ply.
walls83:
Cool. I cant wait to see the progress...
clonestar:
Made a frame to take the screen today, but when I fitted it I found out that the top was not quite square. What happened was that I measured the diagonals to check everything was square but when I took it apart to move the speakers back I didn't check again. Still I put most of it right but didn't get much done as I had arranged to take the kids to see Hellboy this evening.
As for the Marquee I thought what I might do instead is have a silverball on top like the header on Data East's Tommy pin table.
clonestar:
I started laying out the control panel yesterday on a piece of mdf, expecting to do several versions but I'm pretty happy with what I ended up with.
It's ok for you mame cab builders laying out circular buttons in almost random clusters on a large panel, but all these square buttons are murder to line up. As you can see I still need to tweak a few (taking the picture helped me decide which are out of line). I was torn between making the placement holes on the large side and adjusting by the screw collars or going for as accurate a hole as poss. In the end I cut holes slightly undersize and made small adjustments with a file, not finished yet I hasten to add.
I expect when I fix the control panel on I shall start suffering from functionallity hiatus syndrome. That is when enough of a cab is built to become useable you stop working on it while you play with it all the time. Luckily with the jukebox I can carry on listening while I work.
If anyone one is interested heres what the buttons do. I am using Virtual Msic Jukebox and the blue triangles slide the album trays left or right. The blue rectangles are for SKIP and RANDOM and the squares whites are numbers 0-9. The orange rectangles are SELECT and CANCEL and the round white buttons select between three different music libraries, mine (parental guidance explicit lyrics) the wife's (sentimental ballads) and child friendly.
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