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Author Topic: anyone ever put a 25" monitor in a 19" midway cabinet?  (Read 1252 times)

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anyone ever put a 25" monitor in a 19" midway cabinet?
« on: March 12, 2006, 01:02:40 pm »
looking for photos or help on getting my 25 inch monitor into my 19 inch multipac cabinet.

i remounted the monitor cross bars and slid the monitor into the old
position. it looks like it probably shouldn't go down into the cabinet
any further from a viewability perspective.


obviously i'll need to remove the back wall and move it back a few
inches.


i'm noticing though that i won't be able to put the back door on the
machine.. the monitor frame is it poking out the back.


do i need to lay the monitor at less of an angle?


can someone who's done this please take a couple of pics for me? i've
looked online and all i keep getting in a search is the new 25 inch ms
pac combo machine.


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Re: anyone ever put a 25" monitor in a 19" midway cabinet?
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2006, 05:36:44 pm »
Operators usually just cut a hole in the back door, and then bolt some sort of "bubble" over the hole, so that the monitor frame protrudes into the bubble.  I've seen them made out of wood, sheet metal, and plastic.  Tron/Gorf cabs came from the factory this way, there was a plastic bubble on the back. 

The problem with doing it this way is that it makes the game hard to move, because the bubble interferes with the dolly. 

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Re: anyone ever put a 25" monitor in a 19" midway cabinet?
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2006, 07:08:03 pm »
i thought about that as well but with the little space i have .. i try to keep my games butted up back against the wall.

maybe I can disassemble the frame and make some sort of custom mount for the monitor pcb.

thx.