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Question for MAMErs with large CRT televisions as their display
Vash:
--- Quote from: Paladin on April 20, 2008, 10:55:03 pm ---Now I'm getting paranoid. I bought all the guts from the 38" monitor version of Gauntlet Legends that someone bought so he could use the cabinet for MAME. I'm building a showcase cabinet from scratch, and have been worried about strength. I downloaded the showcase cab assembly instructions from mameroom.com, and their plans look like it's only held together with screw cams. I've been downloading all the pictures I can find online of the Atari/Dynamo showcase style cabs. So far I've only found two photos that show the cabinet with the door open, and it looks like 1x1 reinforcments are all that are used.
I downloaded the showcase plans from jakobud's site, but the measurements contradict themselves so I'm pretty much winging it based on that design. I'm using 3/4 particle board with 1x1 reinforcements. I'm gluing and screwing all panels to the 1x1's and crossing my fingers that it's going to be strong enough. I just started assembly today on the monitor pedestal, and I should have it done tomorrow. I'm letting the glue dry on the foot section before adding the front and back panels as well as the top and single shelf.
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Any idea how much that beast weighs? Either way, let us (me =p) know how it goes. My original plan was to use only a piece of MDF screwed and glued onto the sides of the cabinet with a shelf bracket underneath that would also be glued to the sides.
Paladin:
I don't know how much it weighs, but it took 2 of us to get it in and out of the truck. Here's a sneak peak at the bottom of the monitor support structure before I attached the bottom piece. I added the extra 2x4's in the middle to help support the weight. The holes in the pieces are to allow the wires to pass through to the control panel section.