Making a Mini-Mame Cab

[HeadRusch]

This is in followup to my Golden Age cab thread below.
I've decided to make a mini-cab...either a miniature desktop cab or a miniatore coctail table style cab.  each will be no bigger than the monitor and motherboard will allow for.

Question 1: I turned my cheap 15" monitor on its side and the colors went wacky....is there a way to correct this?

Question 2: If I mount the monitor internally I'd like to take the bulky case off
to save space, but don't want to kill myself in the process.  Is taking the cover off
a monitor and mounting it vertically or "pointing up" in the case of a mini-coctail cab, is there anywhere inside a computer monitor I dont want to touch?  

Ie: for handling, can I pretty much touch anywhere BUT the area at the back of the tube, where all the capacitors live and breathe??

Thank You!!

[OSCAR]

I made a small bartop cabinet that is just large enough to fit the monitor, mobo, & powersupply, like you described.  The project page is here.  I removed the monitor case like you mentioned, to keep the cabinet as small as possible.

Check out the Monitor link on the left, there is a quite a bit of good information there regarding the dangerous parts of a monitor, and also about monitor rotation.

[HeadRusch]

Oscar, I love it:  A few n00b questions for you if you don't mind:

1) How did you "affix" the front plexi to the rest of the cab? I think I missed
that part.

2) For the decals (P1, P2, etc) did you print them out on paper, glue them, and then laquer them before putting the plexi over the board?  Sorry, I'm confused as to how that whole process works......Im not a "wood guy"....

3) Thank You!!!

[OSCAR]

1.  No, you didn't miss it.  I didn't mention it anywhere except in the PDF download, I think.  What I used was some small brackets attached to the rear edge of the control panel.  I believe the brackets are some kind of mirror hanging clip.  I pulled them out of drawer at Home Depot in the hardware aisle.  I'm not sure how well this pic will show them, but it will give you an idea.



I had also planned on attaching the top edge of the plexi with an aluminum angle or Happ marquee retainer, but the weight of the 1/4" plexi was enough to keep it in place without supporting it on the top edge.  I cut the plexi for a snug fit between the cabinet sides, too, so that helps keep it tightly in place.


2.  I printed out the graphics on Avery full sheet labels, then cut them out and stuck them down.  I didn't use any type of laquer, just places the plexi directly over them.  The cabinet is a year old now, and they look just as good today as the day I printed them.

3.  No problem!