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rcrules:
Here is a shot of the leathery looking t-molding. (edit: I guess it doesn't show the leather texture very good in the picture)

This shot shows the temporary X-Arcade control panel on a piece of spray painted wood to mount it.

rcrules:
The speaker grill location. The 4" holes are lined in t-molding and speaker grill cloth I got at from the craft store Joann.

Keyboard drawer with an old keyboard and mouse. I plan on getting a wireless keyboard/mouse for it.

Here is the bottom door open with the computer in it. The computer case was so big the subwoofer wouldn't fit in the cabinet. I will probably get a smaller pc case to put in there sometime.

Timoe:
HOly Cow! That looks great. Where do you guys get this stuff? Are there plans or something?

The finish looks great, even on the backside of the door.

Anyway, good job, now get that x-arcade off of there already. >:D

IG-88:

--- Quote from: Timoe on October 22, 2006, 01:04:05 pm ---HOly Cow! That looks great. Where do you guys get this stuff? Are there plans or something?

--- End quote ---

Ya, I'd love to build one with those cam locks. How do you get those all too line up squarely? Do they have templates or something?

Also, what kinda software are you running on it?

rcrules:
Timoe:
Thanks for the words of encouragement. The cabinet came from the mind of Knievel. He was kind enough to share the dimensions with me. The finish color is really hard to take pictures of. I tried with natural light and the flash on the camera. I am ordering the rest of the control panel parts so I can get the X-Arcade off of there STAT.

IG-88:
Rockler.com sells a jig for the cam locks. The jig only works for two pieces of wood that make a perfect "L" shape. If the pieces make a "T" shape you can use the jig for half the holes and you have to measure the other half of the holes. I made a simple jig for drilling the holes in the "T" shape.

:dizzy: CAUTION: the "minifix" cam locks that Rockler.com sells are not very strong because the dowel part does not "screw" into the wood. The dowel only sits in the hole. I got the "screw in" kind at outwaterhardware.com, I have also seen this type at homedepot. Rockler.com does sell a heavy duty camlock but they are huge.

If your measuring skills are good, you could measure the placement for the cams and locks. I didn't trust myself so, I clamped each piece together and made a mark on each piece so I knew they would line up. Once I practiced on a couple of pieces of scrap, it wasn't hard aligning them.

I am running Windows XP and MAME 1.08. I had never used a frontend before (besides MAME32 that is). I tried MAMEWah but couldn't get it to work (quickly anyway). I put on MALA and a handful of games for the wife to play. I will mess around with the frontend, other emulators, jukebox and booting directly into a front end when I have time to play.

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