Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Spectrum on December 26, 2002, 04:43:34 pm
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Are most of you guys using a plexi or lexan "cover" in front of your monitor? If so how did you attach it? Did you make a frame to sit around it and hold it in or rout out channels on the inside of your cab sides and slide it in? I plan on going to an arcade tonight after work to see if I can figure out the method they use, but IIRC I have never seen screws going through the protective plate in front of the monitor.
Told you I'd be back w/ more noob questions ;)
Robert
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I made an attempt to explain this in this thread (http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=4010), but I
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I made an attempt to explain this in this thread (http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=4010), but I’m afraid my description wasn’t very clear. So this time I’m including a couple of pics to help.
Nah, you were clear last time! :)
I've since arranged a way to make it work in my cab. On mine, I attached a 1X2 onto the cab below the monitor area, but behind when the CP fits. I notched it on the table saw about 1/2", and the lexan will snug down into that.
At the top, above the monitor in the top right and top left, it will attatch via a screw and post. I just picked up some little 1" round dowel rod "spacers" (about 1" deep also) at Lowes. They were cheap and I didn't have to cut them, hehe. I also picked up a threaded lug to hammer into the 2X4 in the cab, then glue the dowel spacers (with the same 1/4" hole drilled into it) over that lug-hole. Then, I'll fasten it with a 1/4X1" machine screw and screw cover.
I'll try and post some pictures later to make this clearer! (hard to do without images, unfortunately...)