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Laminated upright cabinet. [99.9% done]
syph007:
I was tired of looking at the empty marquee hole, but I was determined to make my own design. As a temp measure I ordered a standard one from MameMarquees. I think it looks pretty sweet, for sure high quality workmanship.
I was nervous about cutting the plexigass to fit, but it turned out to be super easy with a router. My marquee area is 26x6.5. I cut a board to that exact size then clamped the plexi on top and went around it with my flush trim. Cut it like butter, no cracks, nothing. I feel silly for worrying about this, but router cutting was for sure the way to go.
I have to hit home depot tomorrow and look for something to use for marquee holder, so its just temporaily taped up for now. What a difference some art makes, its starting to feel more arcade like already... now I just need oh that silly control panel thing... :D
syph007:
Ok I finally stopped being lazy and got my marquee mounted properly. I went with the home depot trim method. Cut it to size, drilled 5 holes each, and then painted with the hammer texture spray paint. For some reason it's impossible to find small black screws and hardware stores, so I ended up taking about some old crumby desktop speakers just to harvest the screws. One other modification I had to make was to add another small board behind the marquee light as there was significant light coming out the back and then lighting up the area about the monitor.
Feels really good to have the marquee on properly now, even thought it's not my 'forever' one.
Well I gotta go back to the garage and finish the CP box... so close I can taste it now!
Cheers!
syph007:
Finally got the last piece of laminate installed and trimmed on the CP box. I was worried about how the corners would turn out, like maybe i'd nick the lower part when I was doing the flush trim, but it went totally fine. I used 4 carriage bolts and bolted it on. Now I think I have every single piece done accept the actual control panel. I should be able to have a rough one ready for tomorrow. I plan on testing a few configurations to make sure I have one I like.
Cheers!
Bender:
It's really coming together
Nice work on the laminate!
looks great :cheers:
syph007:
Ugh... in a test fitting of my controls I came to a horrible realization.. I didn't make the box deep enough from the monitor. In my inkscape control mockups I had a 32" by 14" inch box. For some reason the one I made is 32 by 12.... I really am not sure what happened in my logic here. The problem is when I test fit my trackball its too close to the screen for good trackball games... so.. yes.. I will be making ANOTHER CP box... *sigh* 3rd time better be right, or I may be the first to shed tears over my misshapen project!
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