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Laminated upright cabinet. [99.9% done]
Lewis Black:
Looking nice
syph007:
Wow I feel dumb for not checking our local surplus store earlier.. they have cheap plexi! I'm working on the marquee area now so I needed some. It was kind of pricey at home depot so I checked the surplus store near me. They had tons of it in odd sizes and they sell it for 3 bucks a pound. I found 2 that are almost exactly the size I needed and it cost me around 4 bucks total!
syph007:
Well I had no luck finding good speaker grills so I just made some today. Cut the board out the right shape, covered with 3 ply of black screen door screening I had in the garage, and stapled that on. I bought half inch aluminum trim then bent and attached it with 2 screws at the back.
I held it up to the speaker area and I think it looks just fine, you can't immediately tell they are DIY ones.
Cheers!
syph007:
Well I have some small progress. Sadly we've actually been gaming on it already which has killed my productivity. We've been playing lightgun games (zero point 1 & 2) and donkey kong with the keyboard. Don't even have a real control panel yet!
I realized I had started making my control panel box 1/8 inch too short, so I tried to glue some 1/8 material on the bottom, and that ended badly, it was a mess. I just said screw it and started over. Redid the whole box from scratch tonight, and I'm finally happy with how it turned out. I took my time and made sure each cut was right and everything ended up fitting perfect. Dimensions are 12" x 32" base, 4 3/8" front and 5 3/8" back with 5 degree slope.
Well it's a long weekend coming up so I really hope I can get a test control panel together and play some games!
Cheers!
Edit: I also got a 15 w florescent light fixture mounted for my marquee light.
opt2not:
Sometimes it's best to just start over on a task, I find that it turns out better and faster the second time through! Don't worry about the productivity thing, you need to give yourself a few "rewards" here and there with some gaming fun! ;)
Great progress so far, I've been watching this thread for updates, mostly because I'm a huge fan of Laminates over painting for scratch-built cabs. Looking forward to more updates!
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