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Title: Help me find these brackets !!!!!!!!!!
Post by: ctozzi on July 15, 2008, 12:59:08 pm

I need these to finish off my MAME project but cannot find them anywere. I need the monitor glass hold down to be 27 inches and the Z shape bracket the same.

Title: Re: Help me find these brackets !!!!!!!!!!
Post by: fjl on July 17, 2008, 02:55:11 am

I'd go to a metal shop, and have them make copies or something.  :dunno

Title: Re: Help me find these brackets !!!!!!!!!!
Post by: ivwshane on July 17, 2008, 04:12:15 am

I need that piece too!

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Post by: Spaz Monkey on July 18, 2008, 12:16:16 am

Ditto!

Title: Re: Help me find these brackets !!!!!!!!!!
Post by: ctozzi on July 19, 2008, 11:51:47 pm

nobody knows were to get these ? ???????

Title: Re: Help me find these brackets !!!!!!!!!!
Post by: RandyT on July 21, 2008, 01:38:51 am

They are very likely custom parts designed specifically for the cabinet in question.  Many places will do custom extrusions if you have large enough requirements, and the hold down looks like it's metal, which means anyone with a metal brake and a shear could make it.

IOW, it seems unlikely that you will find those parts on a shelf somewhere, unless they were made as an after market component specifically for that purpose.....or you get really lucky.

RandyT

Title: Re: Help me find these brackets !!!!!!!!!!
Post by: brock.sampson on July 21, 2008, 08:45:29 am

Do any of your existing cabinets have those parts?  I borrowed the control panel piece from a friend of mine and had my brother in law bend me one at his work.  He's in heating and air and works with sheet metal a lot.  Painted it black and screwed it on works like a champ.  If you need the same shape just longer most metal shops should be able to bend those in about 5 minutes.

Title: Re: Help me find these brackets !!!!!!!!!!
Post by: ctozzi on July 21, 2008, 09:32:59 am

i found the main one that goes on the glass at lowes, cut it and painted black. I'll see if I need the other when i get my panel

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Post by: ivwshane on August 01, 2008, 12:41:03 am

What?

Can you give some more details? Any picks of what you did?

Title: Re: Help me find these brackets !!!!!!!!!!
Post by: ctozzi on August 02, 2008, 01:03:21 pm

here ya go it's just a simple bracket that I bought in Lowe's for $ 5.00 and cut it to fit, then drilled holes to hold the glass and give that clean vintage arcade look.

Title: Re: Help me find these brackets !!!!!!!!!!
Post by: ivwshane on August 02, 2008, 04:40:05 pm

Oh I see what you mean now.

That's pretty much how I was going to do it as well but I was hoping for a piece that would cover/connect the monitor and the cp top.