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Title: MAME INTO CABARET CAB (PAIN IN THE ASS)
Post by: hayabusa_fmw on March 30, 2007, 04:18:26 pm
hey guys

Im trying to finish up my mame cab
it's pretty a pain in the ass since starting the project

first the monitor that was inside was ''a 13''

so im putting a 17'' pc monitor...

so i had to cut a hole into the door & recover it with an other peice of wood but the other side..... so it looks ''ugly but still you never look at a cab's behind....(don't we?)

haha

nayways
my question is the following

How can i put brackets for the monitor to hold...
& be straight

I tryed drillings some little L brackets it didn't do the job
now the monitor is holding by some Wood on top & on the bottom i couldn't put a long peice of wood so i put only 2 squares of wood so it can slide in & hold there....
everything is bolted with washers...

but it sucks...
i don't like my project so far... but i guess i could live with it if the monitor could be straight  straight dead center...


Title: Re: MAME INTO CABARET CAB (PAIN IN THE ASS)
Post by: SithMaster on March 30, 2007, 04:34:52 pm
could you take a pic of the area?
Title: Re: MAME INTO CABARET CAB (PAIN IN THE ASS)
Post by: Crowquill on March 31, 2007, 04:04:40 am
Pics would definitely help.

Do you want it stable enough to just sit in the cab correctly or do you want the monitor permanantly bolted in there?
Title: Re: MAME INTO CABARET CAB (PAIN IN THE ASS)
Post by: hayabusa_fmw on April 01, 2007, 10:38:36 am
I want the monitor to never move again
i don't see the point of taking it out once the ''cab finished''

but now i drilled too much time on one of the side so the screw is loose on the bracket

so i tryed putting a bigger gauge of screw wich didn't worked really

so if i shake it a little it can move a tiny bit but ppicky as i am it bothers me so much to know that ..


:what i did ...''
i took Flat backets & put them on all 4 corners of the monitor & then i took a wrench & put them secured there  & put peices of wood to slide it in

but what i would like is do a cleaner job & so it's VERY hardly bolted into the cab & straight

pics :
(http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/9374/mameprojectupdate002yz4.jpg)
(http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/9550/mameprojectupdate004tl9.jpg)

im not happy of the job i did but not at all .
i would like to find a way to make it cleaner & very solid

The backdoor part i don't mind since no one will see it even if i didn't have a back door ...
thanks!!!