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Bezel for 19" rotating computer monitor ideas
telengard:
At this point (maybe 4+ years after starting) my cabinet is pretty much done other than adding new control modules. The *one* thing I for the life of me can't looking good is a bezel. I've tried making them out of construction paper and they come out awful. I bought a 19" Happs bezel but it's made for an 19" arcade monitor. I'm currently using black foam core and double sided tape. It works, but it ain't pretty.
The rotating part isn't a big deal except that it needs to be low profile so it doesn't rub up against the front glass.
Any ideas/pointers/examples?
~telengard
Angry_Radish:
How about just throwing some greylite over everything?
TOK:
You can get black foamboard at most craft stores. There are a couple different thicknesses, and you can also get it in black. I've wound up using that on all of my cabs. Cheap, easy to cut, and disappears under tinted glass/plexi.
telengard:
--- Quote from: TOK on July 14, 2007, 06:14:53 pm ---You can get black foamboard at most craft stores. There are a couple different thicknesses, and you can also get it in black. I've wound up using that on all of my cabs. Cheap, easy to cut, and disappears under tinted glass/plexi.
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That's what I'm doing now. I use black foam core and I have tinted glass. I guess I don't like that it doesn't come forward towards the glass like a cardboard bezel does. Ideally I could use something like my Happ's bezel but it doesn't fit a std PC 19" monitor.
How do you attach yours to your monitor? I used double sided tape since I wanted to cover up the black strip around the CRT tube.
~telengard
TOK:
I used velcro so I can easily remove it from the monitor to work on the cab, etc.