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DaOld Man:
My little brother Stevie loves music and probably has 2 or 3 hundred cd's.
After seeing Mountains jukebox, I got the idea to make one for Stevie.
And like Mountain, I am on a tight schedule. Stevies birthday is next Saturday and I hope to have this juke done before then to give him as a present.
First of all, let me say that this juke box was inspired by Mountains juke project, and is a blatant rip off of his juke.
But I would also like to say that my wood working skills are no where near that of Mountains, so I dont expect my project will be anywhere close to as nice as his, so please dont compare it to his.

There will be some major differences between this juke and Mountains.
First of all, I plan to use some pretty good sounding speakers, so I had to make room for them. I am using Creative Inspire T-3100. IMHO they sound very very good.
Also, I had a 15" ELO CRT touchscreen that i bought off ebay a couple years ago. It is heavy, and takes a lot of rear-end room, so my juke had to be a lot deeper than Mountains.
I also plan to include a CD-rom so Stevie can put his CDs on it.

I know there are some great looking Jukes that folks have made on here, this is my first, so if it turns out a fraction as nice, I will be happy.

First, the computer Im using is a ASUS A7N266 with an AMD 900 MHZ processor.
60 gig harddrive and 256 megs DDR ram.
Here it is on my dining room workbench..


Here is a pic of the monitor and speakers:


I cut out the marquee area using the router jig I made for my rotating monitor project:


Here is a close up of the marquee area:


Here is a test fit of the monitor:


Here is the front with the cutouts for the speakers:



The separators between the speakers are pressboard in that pic. I later cut those out and used MDF to seperate the speakers.

More to follow!

edit: images fixt

DaOld Man:
Ok, here is a pic of the rib attached to the front panel, also you can see the mounting bolts for the monitor and the small bolts for the marquee retainer.
I am using 1/4" carriage bolts with MDF spacers to attach the monitor with. I will be using 4 L brackets on the monitor.
My marquee retainer will be 5 plastic bathroom mirror hangers. They will attach to the small bolts, clamping against the plastic of the marquee.


And here is the monitor pedestal, which also happens to be the speaker box. (Notice the shim made from a wooden yardstick?)


Here is the front panel sitting on my workbench. I am ready to apply the 1/8" black plastic. (Plan to that in the morning.) You can also see the bottom of the speaker box better.


Im using my skill saw case for a prop to hold up the top of the front panel.


And here is the first cut of the plastic. I cut it a couple of inches taller than the front panel. It was already a couple of inches wider. I plan to cut it with a laminate cutter the same way Mountain did his.


Tomorrow my plans are to glue the plastic to the front panel. Wish me luck, cause gluing laminate is another first for me..

Edit: changed black plastic thickness from 1/4" to 1/8" (It really is 1/8)
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DaOld Man:
Got the black plastic glued on. It went on pretty good. Im letting it setup for a couple of hours before I move it so I can have room to work on the back panel. According to instructions, it will probably need to set up for a couple of days before I start whacking away at it.
The cement went on good, but the fumes it puts off made me a little light headed.

Sorry I didnt get any pictures. Its just too hard to take pictures while Im doing something I havent done before.
Plus I didnt want to risk getting cement on my camera.

At first, I had planned on just dropping the plastic on top of the front panel, since I had plenty of room around the edges, but a little voice told me I should use wooden dowels to separate the two pieces until I am sure they are lined up. (Thank God for the little voices!).

I ran out to Walmart last night and bought 3/8" dowels. (5 of them).
I did a few practice runs before I applied any glue. Its a very good thing I had the wooden dowels. I think I would have been in big trouble without them, since 2 out of three times I got the plastic way off center.
Using the dowels allows you to slide the piece until it is positioned where you want it.
I dont think there is any turning back after the two cemented pieces touch.

I will try to get some more pics soon.

mountain:
Looking great! Your brother is going to love it. It looks like it will be heavy!

I was hoping some other members would come along and put their twist on this design.  I can't wait to see what you do here, I will be watching.

jban4us:
I had to laugh when I read the thing about the yardstick. One such device is also a part of the cab I am currently building, to hold the monitor shelf level. Great minds, eh?

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