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Conflicts with Defender Cabinet Dimensions?
pmc:
--- Quote from: mahuti on May 22, 2003, 05:28:33 pm ---I took some detailed pics of the control panel marquee area.. might give you some better context for those measurements.
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Ahhhhh..... I see. That's how I was going to support the CP too (cleats). Great detail on the slope of the monitor shelf and the space behind the CP too (I never envisioned what was there). I like the CP mounting clips. While my CP will be removable, for now it'll be firmly in place. I have no idea how I'll mount it but I'm not worried about that.
Love that orange T-Molding. Very cool. I'll be boring and use black.
pmc:
I wanted to provide some closure to this topic for posterity. I checked with Brien King on his cabinet dimensions and he responded like this (posted with permission):
--- Quote ---those numbers are correct. The drawing was redone on July 12th, 2000
and the measurements where verified and reverified at that time.
http://www.arcaderestoration.com/index.asp?OPT=3&DATA=975&CBT=592
They are as accurate as I can make them, however, it is possible that
there are some variations in the dimensions of cabinets out there.
You should also keep in mind that the measurements are from the OUTSIDE
edges of the cabinet. I didn't make any measurements of the inside
of the cabinet. You could probably round some of the measurements off as
well and it probably wouldn't make any noticeable differences such as
the 59 7/16" measurement could probably be rounded to 59 1/2" since
that's only a 1/16" difference.
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Over the memorial-day weekend, I built my cabinet. I decided to use Brien's measurements and doctor it up with MAMEFAN's numbers. Turns out that Brien's original numbers worked great. I even verified some of the trickier numbers with Pythagorium's Theroem and some other Trig I remember from high-school. I used MAMEFAN's numbers for control-panel size. The cabinet came out perfectly proportioned. I'm very happy.
I think the MAMEFAN cabinet may be a variant of Briens since some of the measurements seem very different.
Thank you all for your help. It's really made a difference for me. I had print-outs of every Defender cab I could find (and all your detail shots from this thread) and had all that data handy while measuring and cutting. This was invaluable given that a measurement or two done incorrectly and needs to be exposed before the saw-blade spins.