Got some time to take care of my Star Wars Cockpit that sat around in pieces for a couple of years.
IntroductionReason for disassembling & rebuild was the bad condition and overall weakness of the structure. In this thread I hope to share out regularly the progress of getting the whole cabinet to buildup again. Maybe not something for the purist, as I will manufacture a good amount of the cabinets' wood/particle board. Also I will use woodplugs in combination with particleboard screws to be able to take it apart (at least a couple of times).
If you want to get the whole story so far (2004 - 2009) ... http://www.andysarcade.de/projects_sw.html
If you want to se the pictures of disassembling (2004) ...
http://www.andysarcade.de/data/picseries/sw_restore/overview.htmlBuilding the base assyThe last couple of weeks I have put together my shopping list of black covered particle board and plywood mainly, wood glue and particle board screws. Having the original cab as a reference made things pretty easy. I have first build the bottom frame from 3/4" (19mm) plywood, only challenging thing was to cut the various angles, as I don't have a circular hand saw
so I used a setup/tool where I can cut the angles with my router. The original rollers (including screws and nuts) have been cleaned, greased and reused. The bottom part of the base assy will just be screwed, the upper part with the connecting side strips are glued together. The large holes for the rollers/wheels were also cut with a router.