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The mini upright that was formerly a bar-top - update.

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captainpotato:

--- Quote from: Minwah on October 11, 2005, 09:46:34 am ---Cool looking project.  Does your monitor require degausing after rotating?

I have an old 14" Amstrad rgb (15khz) monitor but when I turn it on it's side most of the picture goes purple...

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I turn it off for a few minutes before I rotate it. If I turn it on too early, one corner goes strange - otherwise it's not too bad.

Once I had the colours really bad, and it wouldn't clear, so I used a fridge magnet to fix them - that was fun ;)

captainpotato:
Okay, it's been a while, but now it's time for an update. For the last three(!) years, life has got in the way of completing this project. My room is usable (it's not finished, but it's usable, at least...), the garden is done (including a brick oven and fishpond), the vegetable patch is thriving, and I've since changed job twice. I've built shelves, planter boxes, a wall that has a fountain mounted on it and built in a barbecue. I'm sure that there's other stuff, but that's a few of the highlights.

I've also hardly visited this site in the last three years.

Upshot is that it's time to finish my cabinet. It's been staring at me for the last three years, occasionally in a usable state, but completely unfinished (ie - PC in the tower case outside of the cabinet, no artwork or bezel).

Now that I have more space (not to mention other projects), the bartop is now going to become a mini-cab. Fortunately t-molding.com sells t-molding in 20' lengths, which means that I had far too much for a bartop - but just enough for a mini-cab. I'm also dumping the rotating monitor for simplicity's sake and mounting it vertically. Sure, I've got some woodworking to build the base and attach it to the top (and then blend it in), but I now have space for a cabinet that sits on the ground. It will also give me a bit more room under the CP, as it's currently very tight.

Another reason for the change is that once this cabinet is finished, I have an old Sprint 2 cabinet (minus monitor and game boards, but with all optics and volcano buttons intact) to restore and convert into a 360-degree upright cabinet :)

Anyway, started working on the cabinet tonight by stripping out the fixings that I'd stuck in it.

It's nice to be back here :)

glonq:
Welcome back!  Can't wait to see the finished product.

IG-88:
Wow! Almost 3 yrs to the day. Glad to see that you haven't given up! I had forgotten all about this sucker.

captainpotato:
I hadn't forgotten - it's hard to when there's a bright yellow box sitting in the corner taking up space and collecting dust (not to mention the Sprint 2 cabinet behind my desk waiting for restoration) ;)

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