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Yet another Donkey Kong...
BUCKETHEAD:
The reason i suggested www.twistedquarter.com was?
You were talking about your machine below.
--- Quote ---One problem I've already discovered is that this cab has 5/8 particle board sides, and the t-molding slots are offset.
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And Twisted Quarter states this below about their T-Molding.
--- Quote ---5/8" WHITE * USED ON DONKEY KONG 3
**THIS T-MOLDING IS MADE FOR THE NINTENDO PARTICAL BOARD CABINETS. IF YOUR NINTENDO CABINET IS MADE FROMSOLID PLY-WOOD WOOD THE YOU NEED THE 9/16 " T-MOLDING
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http://www.twistedquarter.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=14&products_id=148
DP Louie:
Well, I got a lot done in the last week. I put on the final coat of red paint, refinished the coin door and installed the t-molding. I bead-blasted the coin door and the aluminum coin mechs face pieces in a glass bead cabinet. It really cleaned it up quite a bit, but there are still some noticeable gouges in the coin slot faces. I painted the door itself with Rustoleum textured black spray paint, and it looks great. I bought a cabinet lock at Lowes to finish off the door. The t-molding slot in this cab is offset, so I purchased some 3/4" white t-molding and made a custom jig that consisted of a couple of 2' pieces of pine with a slot cut in the end that was the same distance from the edge as the Nintendo cab slot. Then I would press the t-molding (2' at a time) into the jig and use my flush trim router bit to trim off the excess. Once I had a strip done, I installed it on the cab. I think it turned out great. I also installed a logitech speaker system - two tiny satellites mounted on a custom plate over the original Nintendo grill, and a subwoofer mounted in the bottom of the cab. This speaker set had a remote mounted volume control, and I finally decided to cut a hole in the ledge above the coin door and mount the volume very stealthily there - this turned out pretty cool, I think. It's just a 2" disc that is recessed in the cab so that all you see is the top edge. This weekend I should get the side art installed and start on my control panel - I just received the overlay from Scott at Mamemarquees and it is awesome - he does great work. More pics to come...
DP Louie:
Well, I finally had some time this week to wrap up most of the loose ends. I got the side art on, finished the cp, and installed my Arcade Shop repo bezel. I think it looks great. I love the baby blue DK's, but I'm all about the "Radarscope Red" :applaud:
I'm still adding some final touches to my Mala layout, then I'd like to post a vid of the cab in action. I love playing all the vertical games on an actual vertical monitor. I was intially concerned with the trackball being close to the bottom of the monitor bezel, but it works fine for centipede and the other few trackball games I've tried. I was originally going to use a Mag stick plus, but with funds being short, I had to go with a ball top 8-way from Tornado Terrys. It works fine, but I'm going to have to search for a recent thread that dealt with using an 8 way with 4-way games...
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