Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum

Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: delta88 on February 02, 2005, 02:50:29 pm

Title: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: delta88 on February 02, 2005, 02:50:29 pm
Remember this thing from way back when?
 Well I took it and remounted  a differant monitor in it vertically and put a 450mhz pc with 300 someodd megs of memory.
Removing the keyboard hack for a joypad hack.
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: hbm*rais on February 02, 2005, 04:44:47 pm
Looks nice!

How is the monitor mounted? It doesn't seem to be a lot holding it in place  :).

Just curious: Why did you change the keyboard hack for a keypad hack?
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: delta88 on February 02, 2005, 04:59:38 pm
Removing the keyboard hack for a joypad hack.


Change it for a joypad hack? I dunno, Havent done it yet but the joypad it chillin here and the kbrd hack is old and old with a touch of old and wired in cat5...*shudders*

Heres a closer pic of the mount.
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: menace on February 02, 2005, 09:28:41 pm
looks good but throw some washers on those monitor mounting screws--thats a pullout waiting to happen by the looks of it!
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: The 80s Man on February 02, 2005, 10:40:21 pm
What's a pull out? Nice Bar Cab by the way.
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: OSCAR on February 02, 2005, 11:31:43 pm
 :o :o

You forgot to mention why you had to put a different monitor in it....   :laugh:

BTW, put a decent joystick in there, it's not like you don't have boxes of them, huh?

Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: delta88 on February 02, 2005, 11:37:58 pm
New monitor? oh ya mean when it spontaniously cumbusted? lol....I forget what I was doin but I snaped the neck..regardless I wasnt partial to the monitor that was in it.. I think it was dirty ;)  that stick stays unless you gimme that green balltop for it  ;D
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: maraxle on February 03, 2005, 07:38:08 am
New monitor? oh ya mean when it spontaniously cumbusted? lol....I forget what I was doin but I snaped the neck..regardless I wasnt partial to the monitor that was in it.. I think it was dirty ;)  that stick stays unless you gimme that green balltop for it  ;D


There's a nice green ball-top for the Ultimarc T-Stik Plus.
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: captainpotato on February 03, 2005, 07:50:56 am
What's a pull out? Nice Bar Cab by the way.

Where the monitor and screw mounts go their separate ways. Look at the image - see how close the screws are to the edge of the monitor mounts? - that's it.
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: menace on February 03, 2005, 08:37:41 am
woops--i guess i should have said fall out and not pull out--my bad.  but you guys got the idea so i guess no harm was done  ;D
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: thedyingmatt on February 03, 2005, 10:23:46 am
I hate to "hijack" a thread and all, but is there any way delta that you can get a shot of the cooling fan mount??  I'm in the process of making the same bartop and would really love to know what kind of fan you used, the measurements for the fans (3.5 inch, etc.) and maybe a snapshot of the mounting from the inside of the cab???  If you could do this it would help a lot because I plan on going to buy the fans tomorrow if I know what to look for!!  Thanks in advance everyone!!
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: delta88 on February 03, 2005, 11:55:36 am
Hey as far as the monitor goes...Its not gonna fall out, yeah I should have use washers but man that thing is in there. I may put some in there and try to put a 17" in there at the same time. the one the I have in there will nt display windows nor mame full full screen...blegh...
and for the fans OSCAR used normal 90mm? case fans with little grills.
here are some pics.
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: thedyingmatt on February 03, 2005, 07:50:52 pm
Sweet!!  That's all I needed to know.

Best but has a 10 dollar 80mm case fan so I think i'll go with that.  I'm sure that it wouldn't really matter if I used smaller ones, would it??

Thanks again Delta!!
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: delta88 on February 03, 2005, 07:59:01 pm
10bux is a lot for just 1 fan. Id look online and or a smaller shop..
my opinon

-d88
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: quarterback on February 03, 2005, 10:41:17 pm
Best but has a 10 dollar 80mm case fan so I think i'll go with that.

You could get three of them shipped to your door for that price if you ordered from NewEgg (http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=35-150-007&depa=0)
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: apeekaboo on February 04, 2005, 04:30:24 am
Best but has a 10 dollar 80mm case fan so I think i'll go with that.
Title: Re: Happy hour bartop rebirth
Post by: javeryh on February 04, 2005, 12:40:27 pm
Best but has a 10 dollar 80mm case fan so I think i'll go with that.

You could get three of them shipped to your door for that price if you ordered from NewEgg (http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=35-150-007&depa=0)

Actually for $14.85 you could get 15 of them shipped to your door!