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DreamWeb:

Tailgunner,

That'd be great!  I look forward to seeing your next project!

ginno:

Hey guys, spent a little time on the bezel setup today,

Just placed the braces in the cab to have a look how much spacing i would have between them and the monitor.

The bottom brace will not be screwed to the cabinet as it is too thin, instead I will tack it to the front of the monitor shelf.



I am leaning towards using 1 piece of cardboard, cutting the screen shape out, wrapping it around the monitor and stapeling a lip to the left and right side of the cabinet (fold lip backwards so that stapels will not be seen)
I can do this easily because there is no vertical curve in the monitor (being a trinitron)

This will still leave a gap between the braces and the bezel as can be seen in this pic:



I was thinking of filling the gap with black foam that will mold to the shape of the cardboard.

I also manageed to solve the fact my piece of perspex was too short by finding a skirting board, the lip on it is the exact distance i needed.



Now with the 2 braces in I can actually visualise the $2 style bezel working as i can now take some measurements and see how to finish the bezel edges around the cabinet and the braces.

Thanks guys, keep you all posted.

ginno...


SadGamerGeek:

I'm interested to know how this worked out.

Any photos of the finsihed bezel?

Cheers,

Richard

ginno:

Hi Richard,

The best solution I found was TailGunners $2 Bezel idea.

Basically in the end I made the bezel from cardboard.

Using a sony trinitron meant i could not purchase a plastic bezel as the have a curve vertically whereas the TV does not.

Basically from there it was trial and alot of error,

SadGamerGeek:

That's very helpful - cheers!

I'm definately going to use some of your ideas to help me with my own bezel & monitor mounting.

Many apologies for the massive delay before my reply! For some reason I didn't get a "thread updated" email, so I assumed there had been no reply.

Thanks again,

Richard

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