reaching into cab via Coin Door

[currygoat11]

on a cocktail cab, if the coin door is open:

isn't the monitor exposed?  I do not want to have the risk of my son to reach into the open coin door and shock themselves...

the more I think about it, I may NOT want a coin door on my cocktail cab. If I forgot to lock the door, it could be a safety hazard...

and if the volume knob was accessible via the door, the likelihood of it being open would be higher....  :\

[grueinthebox]

If there is no door, you'd have to put the volume knob elsewhere anyway...  Why not just go ahead and do that so you don't have to open the coin door so much?

[RayB]

There should be absolutely no reason to open up a cabinet anyways, unless you're working on it. So chances of leaving it unlocked should be 0.

[currygoat11]

yeah i think you're right  - I should put the volume control somewhere else on the cab.....

[paigeoliver]

On a Midway cocktail opening the door DOES expose the monitor, but it is basically blocked by the monitor mounting harware.

Jap cocktails generally don't have coin doors, so no worries there.

You can always put the door there, but isolate it from the general cocktail interior. A lot of games are that way anyway.

[Stingray]

My Midway Space Invaders cocktail does expose the monitor when the coin door is open, but if this is a concern for you it wouldn't be a big deal to build a box around this area so you (or your son) could reach in and empty the coin bucket, but have no risk of touching anything "hot" on the monitor.


-S