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First MAME Cabinet (Mortal Kombat) - can it be finished within 4 years?!!
beastathon:
Well, I took a few days off because I had my last exam on Thursday, so I thought I should probably study a little. Plus, the weather suddenly went rainy while the rest of the country had a heatwave (suckers!), plus I couldn't find the right parts I wanted for and didn't have the transport.
Anyway, I got a couple of Make A Brackets from Bunnings, 6 gauge 12mm screws, and some Selley's Liquid Nails. There was a lot of frustration trying to get the panels to stay with the brackets, I eventually screwed some brackets on to the front of the panels to hold the joints together which have seemed to work. The problem is that I don't know how well these joints and going to hold without the brackets in place, I'll have to leave it overnight to set. Plus one of the sides did not get a great hold with the glue, so if it doesn't hold when I take the brackets off, I'll have to sand it down and do it again tomorrow. If it does work, I'll be filling the gaps you can see in the pictures, that turned out better (ha) than I had originally had them.
DCsegaDH: I must admit, it does look cool and when you construct it IT IS SO FUN! :angry:
kjeffery: I was planning for an all duct tape cabinet, but gravity was against me. Gravity has done nothing good for anyone, I say we get rid of it.
aumameman: Cheers for the think, I was thinking of a coin cabinet, but I had just ordered the push buttons since a coin mech is out of price range.
beastathon:
Progress is slow. I'm really hoping to speed things up this week. I hope I can grab a free tv from the paper this week too, that'll really help.
I filled in the gaps once and then went back with a spatula to get it even. I gotta do some final sanding tomorrow, but the dreaded front panel actually turned out alright.
flakeride:
Where did you get the artwork for the CPO? I've been working on a new CPO in AI but finding he right font and changing a raster dragon into a vector dragon may be beyond my knowledge level. I have a hacked original MK CPO (Drilled and painted for surf city) but removing the paint in order to get a good scan is proving quite tedious.
bigpete405:
mamemarquees.com
saleem:
makes me wander if you could use some fibre glass to reinforce the front you made.if you are not 100% sure it will hold you could just lay a couple of sheets of fibre glass on it at the back (out of sight) then use some of the resin and let it go hard,i would be pretty sure that would definatley hold it.
:)
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