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Is there anywhere to buy monitor bezels besides Happ?
u_rebelscum:
You can cut you own if you want to give it a try.
Here's some quick dimensions of a (minor water damaged) 19" (or maybe 18" ??) atari UR pole position monitor bezel:
Folds are color coded. The bezel is in two parts of black card board glued together; the red folds are also where the the bottom piece is attatched to the large upper piece.
The inside really isn't a rectangle; the edges are curved outward to match the arcade monitor, and so the lengths aren't precise. The inside diagonal is ~18". If the front of the bezel was straight vertical, the monitor would be tilted back ~30 degrees. The blue folds are mountain folds, with the card board scored on the front side, I guess to prevent tears.
FWIW, I thought the bezel was heat warped black plastic until I removed the glass, umm, bezel (?). You know, the flat one with the instructions and other art painted on it, and protects the monitor. Are both the glass and the black cardboard "bezels"?
BTW, sorry about the pic, I use a drawing app. I wish I had a good CAD prog. :'(
paigeoliver:
Well, plastic bezels perfectly follow the curves of the monitor glass, but the casing on a PC monitor gets in the way of that. I have a bunch of plastic bezels and a bunch of assorted 19" displays, and none of the bezels will properly work on any of the displays that are still "cased". But they all seem to fit fine on "uncased" displays.
If you happen to have a spare arcade monitor frame then your PC monitor tube might bolt into it. Take the back of the case off and measure the eyehole things at the corners of the tube.
Cue-Ball:
Unfortunately, i don't have an arcade monitor at all, much less a spare one. And i spent a lot of time and energy fitting the PC monitor into the cab. I wouldn't want to pull it all back out in the hopes that i could attach it like an arcade monitor.
I think i'll try my hand at making a bezel out of some black tagboard using rebelscums graphic as a rough guide (thanks, man!). If that doesn't work out or doesn't look as good as i'd hoped, then i'll see how the plastic Happ bezel works once i get it. If it doesn't fit (19" bezel on a 21" PC monitor, so it might not) then i'll just resell it either on the Buy/Sell forum or locally.
Thanks for your ideas, everyone.
paigeoliver:
Here is what I did when I had a PC monitor like that.
Used a sharpy to color the plastic around the screen black. Then used black foam weatherstripping as a bezel.
hevnsnt:
Why would you tape off your monitor to spray paint it? I just took off the back of my monitor, and then there were 4 bolts to take the front of the monitor off. Spray painted that and then put it back on. Worked perfectly!