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Moon Patrol and Me - DONE!
Portnoy:
3rd time posting. First, it disappeared. Second, I timed out..ugh. Anywayz, I was able to get to the power and monitor controls. I wanted the power to have a clean look and also to keep my 4 year old from discovering high voltage. I was able to get this out of some old equipment and wired it for an inside outlet...
Mounted to the back dead center..
I built a housing for a one outlet plug which will have a Craftsman Auto Switch plugged in..
The monitor needed the controls relocated. I was dreading this step due to the extremely short ribbon cable I had to work with.
I cut out the face plate from the monitor housing. Why not? It was already a perfect fit for the buttons and gave them the support they needed. I accidentally sent one of the buttons across my garage floor with my knee. It happened to be the one that let you choose between the BNC or VGA input. I had to solder two points together on the back of the board to get the VGA to work again..
The control board came out like so ( yes those ARE Legos )
I wrapped the wire in spiral wrap. I now have enough slack to make adjustments to the screen comfortably and this will tuck away with velcro up in the cab when not in use..
I hope to be posting completed picks of the cab in 2 weeks. Until then.
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cmoses:
--- Quote from: Portnoy on August 12, 2008, 09:29:36 pm ---Very small update. I painted the cab with semi-gloss black. 2 coats of primer, and..well I lost count on the semi-gloss. I thought this would be the easiest part of the whole process but nooooo. I must have sanded down the sides of the cab 3 times to finally get something I was satisfied with. Roller marks..uneven shining in the coat...large moths stuck to the paint. Me not leaving well enough alone! The funny part is the back of the cab I painted once and it is easily the best looking side. Of course this will be backed against a wall where no one will see it. The bottom looks fabulous as well. Considering I can only work on this every other weekend each bad coat cost me quite a bit of time. Next cab is sooo getting laminated! Anyway, it looks great now and I was actually able to apply the Tmolding. Tmolding=sexy....but then again I don't get out much so take that with a grain of salt.
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Can you tell me what kind of primer and paint you used? Did you get the primer tinted gray for the black paint?
Portnoy:
The primer was white, Benjamin Moore Fresh Start - Alkyd- #024 00 and the finish was Benjamin Moore Regal Acrylic semi-gloss black, # N333 80. The finish looks much better in person. The flash on the camera tends to show what you wouldn't see with the naked eye.
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Portnoy:
It was September 24th at 9:45pm when I stepped back and stared in amazement that this project was finally completed! This project that started with this forum and a rusty coin door acquired off Ebay. As it is far from a moon patrol cab anymore aside from the profile, I have renamed with the front end that makes me drool. I should have renamed it "Where the summer of '08 went". I have new respect for those that put these things out in 2 months time.
I started to slack on documenting the progress, but at most you don't get to see 35 zip ties running wires around the inside of the cab. Here are a few shots of the remaining construction.
I have two 12volt fans taking the monitor heat up and out.
Here is a shot of the wiring under the control panel. If you look towards the bottom on either side of the TB you can see two brass inserts. These recieve 2 long screws/bolts that come up through the bottom of the control panel. I originally thought the front two blocks would be enough to secure the panel down...hardly.
This was a really tight fit for everything. I actually sat the GPwiz higher than the Ledwiz to have room for getting the wires in.
Lighting the coin door was done with 2 12v car lights and attached with a wire tie and a bracket I fashioned out of spare PCI slot covers.
The marquee light from Groovey, the fans, the LED's, and the coin icons
are all ran off a spare PC power supply that I have wired to barrier strips.
AND NOW......THE THING THAT MAKES ME SMILE....
Friends breaking her in....
It's been fun! Now....what to build next?
NipRing:
Great job, amazingly colorful! What type of sticks did you use? And is it MAME only?
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