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seoushi:
After really wanting to make a showcase cabinet I decided against it because unfourtunatley I just don't have the space. So I looked at alot of other cabinets and drew up this one. I chose to make it a two piece so it could easily fit in my car when I move to a new place.  For the more experianced builders is there anything that you see just plainly wrong with this design? or maybe a sugestion to make it look nicer? Any comments are welcome... Anyways here  it is.

*Edit* looks like the image below is pretty small and the text is unreadable... here a link to the full thing http://www.eng.utah.edu/~chapel/cab-design.jpg
paigeoliver:
Two piece is more trouble than it is worth. Do your couch and fridge split into 2 pieces as well? Better off making it easy to take the monitor out. Someone (Lusid?) had a brain fart which resulted in a two piece cabinet that is now copied by zillions of cab builders, even though it is a bad design. If it made sense then real games would be like that. Real games got moved ALL THE TIME. It wasn't odd for a game to change locations every month out on route. You aint movin that often.

Also if you are really concerned about ease of movement, then build out of plywood, it is half the weight of MDF.

How often do you move that you need this feature anyway?

Also, that cab isn't fitting in a car, one piece or two pieces. That base section is huge.

And really, I do know what I am talking about with the cabs and the moving. I own 20 machines and have moved 4 or 5 times in the past 4 years.
seoushi:
This is why I asked :). The thing is I move about once a year or so (renting places to live) and I don't have a couch or anything else big.. also the bottom piece while being huge will fit laying down in the back of my explorer. Just to be fair real games also problem had professional movers with big trucks. The real question is my two piece design really that bad? It looks like it would be stable to me, then again this will be my first cabinet.
paigeoliver:
You have an EXPLORER? The game will just fit in the back of it in one piece anyway, you might not be able to close the tailgate, but it isn't like you are gonna be doing it every day. If your panel can come off (and it SHOULD be removable with that design) then you are golden.

The 2 piece design is silly, extraneous, complicates the build, gives you one more place to mess up, makes for a weak point where the top and bottom meet, can possibly result in a "jiggly" cabinet, and it makes the cabinet heavier. And instead of having one big hunk of wood that takes two people to move you end up with two of them.

Also, if you move apartments annually then watch your width. 28" doors are pretty common in some apartments.
seoushi:
hmm 28" limit.. that one is pretty tough with my current design as it would be 28.5" with the two 3/4" mdfs I have... but if I make the inside any smaller then I can't fit my 27" TV in there. also I need the length clearance for  the tv's length.

Thanks for pointing out the weaknesses in the two piece design. I can easily convert that into a 1 piece and just put casters on it. As for the size limit I might have to see what I can do.
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