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help! whats the best way to attach the top of the cp to my box (base)

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ras2a:

Just done a VERY rough sketch (below)...which is the best method/position for the piano hinge: Position 1 or position 2 ?



cheers

Craig

LordDamo:

I used L brackets and 14mm screws. The bottom of my CP box isn't whole. Its like a U shape thats 2.5" wide. With the open part of the U facing the cab. If I need to fix anything in the CP, I just open the coin door and its like working on a car.

I have other L brackets that hold the whole CP together, hold the U in place and L brackets on the bottom of the U that attach it to the cab.

I used heeps of these in the CP, but nowhere else in my cab. The whole thing is held together with little woodern blocks that I screw through (pre drilled) from 2 different dirrections, using 4 screws - 2 each way, at right angles to each other.

The whole thing is as solid as a brick shithouse. Hope this helps.

Oddfeld:

This is how mine works. Probably not the simplest way to build it, but it's a gutted old jamma cab so I didn't do the woodworking...

The CP is hinged at the bottom of the front panel so that it folds away from the base of the CP box which is much deeper than the CP and extends back into the cab, so it's like a big shelf with the CP box on one end. This is held in place in the cab  by some wooden batons screwed into the sides of the inside of the cab to act as runners that it can slide in and out of, so it can't wobble up and down but the whole CP box and base board can slide forwards and backwards. It's prevented from doing this by retaining latches either side (you can reach up inside the cab through the coin door to fasten or undo these due to some big cutouts in the CP base board so you can stick your hand through it).



ras2a:


--- Quote from: LordDamo on December 12, 2004, 05:04:22 pm --- Hope this helps.
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Not really, lol.  but thanks anyways.  At least I have an idea how other folk do it.  I think 'for me' (as I'm using a UAII based cab) and a box construction CP (with lid/CP top), the piano hinge is the easiest option.  I can screw it to the front edge and the CP top overhang should obscure it enough.  I could also spray it black so it will blend in against my (already black) CP.  I can't hinge it at the back as it will clash with the monitor shelf when lifted up as other people have discovered.  Now I could do with some 'black screws' too as I think it will be too fidly trying to /spray them...besides the paint would come off when driving them in!

Thanks again mate

Craig


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