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| USSEnterprise:
Finally getting going working on my cab again. It sits in my living room, empty and unpainted, and my parents either want me to finish it or throw it out. Because I cannot bear the thought of tossing it, (with the $100 in MDF already invested), I'm going to finish it. Currently, I have a 17" Acer LCD that I plan on using as the main display. I have to use an LCD, because I already cut the cab shallow to fit where we want it to go. A CRT really wasn't an option. Because I do enjoy a variety of different games, both horizontal and vertical, I want to make the monitor rotatable. How difficult is this to do? I've seen examples using casters and making the front of the monitor a disc, essentially. Is that the only method of making a rotatable monitor? |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: USSEnterprise on February 14, 2007, 05:30:20 pm ---Finally getting going working on my cab again. It sits in my living room, empty and unpainted, and my parents either want me to finish it or throw it out. Because I cannot bear the thought of tossing it, (with the $100 in MDF already invested), I'm going to finish it. Currently, I have a 17" Acer LCD that I plan on using as the main display. I have to use an LCD, because I already cut the cab shallow to fit where we want it to go. A CRT really wasn't an option. Because I do enjoy a variety of different games, both horizontal and vertical, I want to make the monitor rotatable. How difficult is this to do? I've seen examples using casters and making the front of the monitor a disc, essentially. Is that the only method of making a rotatable monitor? --- End quote --- You could put 1 hand on one side of the monitor, another hand on the other and pick it up and turn it. |
| leapinlew:
You could also check out Cornchips build.... if your an engineer and own a machine shop - you can do what he did. |
| johnperkins21:
You could mount it to a lazy susan and use those little cabinet bumpers to keep it in place. It's a manual solution that would also require you to use leapinlew's original suggestion. http://www.thehardwarehut.com/catalog-product.php?p_ref=4536 |
| csa3d:
Edge used to have a page up where he had used some parts from Grainger.com to achieve something a bit more simple the chornchips build as well. Here's a pic.. I'll be modeling my build after this method. |
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