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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: DannyH on August 08, 2005, 11:18:30 pm
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I have a 20" lowboy cabinet and I want to mount my Compaq 19Inch PC monitor into the cabinet.
The way the old arcade monitor was mounted was by a piece of MDF that slid into place in a bracket from the back of the cabinet and the glass laid a-top that.
Now the monitor I have is approximately 25KG (55.8 lb).
I was going to take the back plastic case of the monitor and use the mounting guide holes to screw it to the piece of MDF. and then place a bracket on there for further support.
What I am wondering is whether the sheet of MDF and the wood brackets will hold the weight of the monitor or whether this will collapse in on itself.
Do you think I should make a base shelf for further support as well and also to protect the PC underneath it?
The Monitor sits on an angle where the screen is facing almost straight up so the weight will all be held on the MDF sheet.
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My 19" monitor would have crushed the frame that was there that slid in and out So I wripped the guides out and got 2 even lengths of 2x4 and screwed them into the side where the old guides were so that now I have a lip to sit the monitor on instead of screwing to a board and then sliding the board in.
I then too the back cover off of the monitor leaving the front cover and slid it onto the lip. It slides in and out with ease now.
I then attached another 2x4 as a stopper for the front of the monitor that will also serve as the base of a shelf for the control panel.. Tonight I will attach another 2 bits of 2x4 on the bottom of the cab to hold the monitor from underneath and just make it stronger.
I have also re-enforced the monitor by stuffing the sides with strips of wood that I have put washing up liquied on to give it an easy slide. The monitor now slides out the back of the machine in one easy movement.
I am very happy with the result, even though it sits slightly higher than a standard monitor it still sits about 1 inch under the glass. All thats left for the monitor is to make me a bezel. I am thinking I will make a cardboard one but also make an artistick one that I will contact to the glass.
Should be good.
Tonight I will make the nerve wracking cuts into the cab for the control deck
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I built a metal frame for the 21" PC monitor in my lowboy cabinet.
Pics and info can be seen here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=40735.0