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shock_'s Aussie cocktail [Complete. Plans now attached]
theCoder:
--- Quote from: shock_ on December 03, 2006, 03:36:49 pm ---Nothing like working with monitors to slow you down somewhat....
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Be careful of your lower back, not to mention the "big red wire". Welcome & good luck with the build.
shock_:
It's funny how some things you think are going to be easy turn out to be bloody ridiculous, and other things you lose sleep over seem to fall in your lap...
Getting this monitor cage constructed in a way that will still allow for rotation is ruining my waking hours at the moment, but my brother-in-law is a shop teacher at a high school and instructed a teachers' aide to weld up some 40mm steel legs for this project between lessons :) Another friend wants to contribute a bottle opener to mount under a control panel. That's friendship!
danny_galaga:
what will you make the 'cage' from? mine was fine in mdf but then it was only a 15". mdf was good because i was able to keep chopping bits off until it rotated freely. will the monitor rotate electrically? and dont forget to kep the aussie arcade thread updated too :)
shock_:
rotation will be manual, unless I change tack yet again.
Cage is to be essentially plural strips of ply - I have made a squarish frame for the front (i.e. the screen side). That frame rests up against the front plastic housing which I have left intact. The weight of the screen should put downward pressure on that frame, which then will transfer to angled and braced strips of ply (several per side). Those strips themselves press onto a bit of, wait for it, ply, which is the base of the cage. If the whole thing doesn't spring apart in an instant, then I'll be laughing.
All I need is a couple of hours where I can operate a circular saw without having to hold a 3 month old baby :)
I shall cross-post to aussiearcade once there's something useful to add, which is hopefully soon!
loadman:
I shall cross-post to aussiearcade once there's something useful to add, which is hopefully soon!
Hey I'm an auzzie too (Sydney) .. Where is that Website?
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