Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: CthulhuLuke on August 25, 2011, 11:11:53 pm
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Been a long time member here, but I haven't really touched my MAME cab in a few years. I sold my TKO/Vs. cabinet last year, and I finally decided it was time to update the current MAME cab and finally finish this thing.
So I picked up a 27" Sony Wega 27FS100 off Craigslist for $25 and I'm planning to de-case it and mount it on a custom piece of wood. Here's a picture of the TV, the frame has a crack which made it very easy to haggle down so low :D
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/cthulhu32/Monitor1.jpg)
Now my question is, how thick should the wood be and what type of wood is necessary to mount something this heavy? I have a nice big piece of left-over 1/2" standard plywood from the workbench I built (the same wood used to build the workbench this TV is sitting on), but I'm wondering if that is thick enough?
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Just wanted to give a quick update.
I went with a 3/4" plywood sheet for the mounting board, and used the cut-out from the inside of the board to make the mounting plate for the guts. I screwed the corners from the back-forward which is probably not as strong as if I lined up the front and brought the wood all the way through the tube on the back. But this was easier for me and the mounting plate is VERY strong. I couldn't get cross-braces on the corners because the TV was so tight in the cabinet, but it just means moving the tv will require facing it tube-down.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/cthulhu32/MonitorBoardTestfit.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/cthulhu32/TVdecased.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/cthulhu32/TestFit.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/cthulhu32/TallTV.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/cthulhu32/TestFit.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/cthulhu32/ItsAlive.jpg)