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What inside access do you have to your cab?
crocklobster:
In terms of cabinet rigidity, does anyone think having two doors will be a detriment? If I put doors on both the lower front (coin door panel) and whole back panel, the side panels will be secured along the bottom, at the monitor shelf, in the control panel base area, the angled back panel, and the small top panel. (Not really secured in the bezel area, not along the back, and not in the lower front).
I'll be putting laminate on, so if I allow access through a panel, it has to be through a door, no screwing and unscrewing panels.
Thanks to all for your responses so far and in advance for any further comments.
Chris
Jakobud:
All I have is the back that opens up (and of course the control panel opens up) but I really REALLY wish I would have made the front open.
rampy:
--- Quote from: crocklobster on April 18, 2003, 02:22:30 pm ---In terms of cabinet rigidity, does anyone think having two doors will be a detriment? If I put doors on both the lower front (coin door panel) and whole back panel, the side panels will be secured along the bottom, at the monitor shelf, in the control panel base area, the angled back panel, and the small top panel. (Not really secured in the bezel area, not along the back, and not in the lower front).
I'll be putting laminate on, so if I allow access through a panel, it has to be through a door, no screwing and unscrewing panels.
Thanks to all for your responses so far and in advance for any further comments.
Chris
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Well isn't this how "real" arcade cabinets are built? There should be some crossbracing somewhere... and the back door doesn't take 100% of the back...
*shrug* Just a thought anyways... unless it was designed poorly/implemented poorly it shuld be fine =P
good luck!
rampy
DeathMonk:
I have a hole for my girlfriends head to fit through in the bottom front, so she can uhh...
Craig Pilecky:
Well my cabinets ridgidity is fine even though I have a small door on the back, and a larger one on the front. I braced it with 3 2/4s across the back of the frame, and a 2/4 and a 2/6 accross the front below the control panel, as well as a 1/8 and 1/6 which also serve as the TV shelf.
I wish I had a wireframe of it to illustrate how I did it. Its not a series of doors and someone quiped at me, its just designed to be very practicle.
I see no advantage to bolting the TV frame down, or bolting the door in place. It wont add any real structural stability over what I have now.
Anyway its up to the gamer to design there cabinet however they want, I was just trying to help.