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Title: how to fortify my bookshelf
Post by: aqsmorningview on February 19, 2017, 09:35:30 am: so i bought a bookshelf from walmart to use as my arcade machine,it seems to be very understudy and wobbles alot.if I fortify the back of it with a real piece of wood should that be enough to make it sturdy enough to use it?
Title: Re: how to fortify my bookshelf
Post by: JDFan on February 19, 2017, 09:58:30 am: Return it and get the money back and buy a piece of wood to make the arcade out of -- in the long run you will wind up spending more $ trying to reinforce that shelving unit than building it from scratch will cost and you'll wind up with it still being to fragile and unstable to perform well ! :dunno
Title: Re: how to fortify my bookshelf
Post by: Mike A on February 19, 2017, 01:50:24 pm: I already told him that in another thread.
Title: Re: how to fortify my bookshelf
Post by: thomas_surles on February 19, 2017, 02:07:32 pm: How much was it. A 4x8 sheet of mdf is only 27 dollars.
Title: Re: how to fortify my bookshelf
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Title: Re: how to fortify my bookshelf
Post by: yotsuya on February 19, 2017, 02:56:47 pm: Why the hell would you make an arcade machine out of a bookshelf?
Title: Re: how to fortify my bookshelf
Post by: aqsmorningview on February 19, 2017, 06:34:04 pm: Quote from: yotsuya on February 19, 2017, 02:56:47 pm
Why the hell would you make an arcade machine out of a bookshelf?

of course its not going to look like a triditional arcade machine but it will work just fine for what im wanting it for
Title: Re: how to fortify my bookshelf
Post by: UEDan on February 21, 2017, 05:27:10 pm: You're gonna do a pedestal huh?