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Title: Anyone got a good plan for a cabinet to house a 36" crt?
Post by: Drakin on August 27, 2009, 10:30:13 am

Looking for plans and or advice on what cabinet design I should go with to house a 36" crt monitor.

Thanks for any input.

Drakin

Title: Re: Anyone got a good plan for a cabinet to house a 36" crt?
Post by: severdhed on August 27, 2009, 10:39:44 am

we have a 36" gateway destination monitor on our cabinet at work.  i use the term cabinet loosely though, because we never really finished it.  for something that large, you should definitely go with a showcase style cabinet, where the control panel is on a separate pedistal that can be back away from the monitor.  our's is two separate pieces so we can move the control panel up against the monitor when not in use, then when we want to play, we pull it back so that there is at least a foot between the back of the panel and the monitor.

i dont have any plans, we were kinda just making it up as we go.  i remember seeing someone had dynamo showcase cab plans here somewhere, but they would have to be modified because they were for a smaller monitor i think.

Title: Re: Anyone got a good plan for a cabinet to house a 36" crt?
Post by: Drakin on August 27, 2009, 10:45:08 am

Thanks, I'll do a search and see what I can dig up.

Title: Re: Anyone got a good plan for a cabinet to house a 36" crt?
Post by: javeryh on August 27, 2009, 11:12:38 am

Shouldn't you be asking if anyone has a good plan for a house for a cabinet with a 36" CRT?   ;D

If you are going that big then a showcase cab is probably the way to go - anything else and you won't be able to follow the action standing so close...   :cheers:

Title: Re: Anyone got a good plan for a cabinet to house a 36" crt?
Post by: Drakin on August 27, 2009, 11:53:06 am

Quote from: javeryh on August 27, 2009, 11:12:38 am

Shouldn't you be asking if anyone has a good plan for a house for a cabinet with a 36" CRT?   ;D

If you are going that big then a showcase cab is probably the way to go - anything else and you won't be able to follow the action standing so close...   :cheers:

LOL...yea not shure if the house will house the cab...

Title: Re: Anyone got a good plan for a cabinet to house a 36" crt?
Post by: RyoriNoTetsujin on August 27, 2009, 03:54:20 pm

LOL.  As someone with a 31" Desti in his cab (which had to be scratch-designed around the monitor: quarterheaven.livejournal.com (http://quarterheaven.livejournal.com)) I cannot recommend a showcase style cab enough!  ;D

In the end, a showcase style will save you massive amounts of pain and trouble, not to mention it's a really easy style to scale up or down depending on your needs.

Edit: In other words, DON'T try to do what I did.

Title: Re: Anyone got a good plan for a cabinet to house a 36" crt?
Post by: DJ_Izumi on August 27, 2009, 06:50:57 pm

http://www.ricweb.com/webyep-system/daten/5-48-im-Bild1-neu-e-8592.jpg

Something like this, only not light guns and instead a podium type control panel.  SEems to be the way to go.  You could also thusly seperate it to make it more transportable.

Title: Re: Anyone got a good plan for a cabinet to house a 36" crt?
Post by: zelony on August 27, 2009, 07:12:45 pm

Go buy yourself a showcase cab.  This is what I did and then put a 36" SVGA monitor in it.  Here is a picture of what I bought.  The picture is from the KLOV website.

(http://www.klov.com/images/11/1181242139159.jpg)

Buy the nicest condition cab you can afford, it will make the conversion to MAME easier.

Title: Re: Anyone got a good plan for a cabinet to house a 36" crt?
Post by: Dr Zero on August 27, 2009, 07:27:05 pm

The showcase cabs are pretty cool lots of room and modular, I have this style of Dynamo showcase

(http://www.drzero.org/videogames/dynamo/hs-15%20showcaseb.jpg)

Title: Re: Anyone got a good plan for a cabinet to house a 36" crt?
Post by: D10 on August 27, 2009, 09:46:16 pm

There are some drawings for a 34" Dynamo cab on Jakobuds site. Maybe you can modify it to fit your needs.

http://www.jakobud.com/cabinetPlans.php

Title: Re: Anyone got a good plan for a cabinet to house a 36" crt?
Post by: wp34 on August 28, 2009, 08:30:06 am

Quote from: javeryh on August 27, 2009, 11:12:38 am

If you are going that big then a showcase cab is probably the way to go - anything else and you won't be able to follow the action standing so close...   :cheers:

Well said.  I tested a 36" Destination for a while trying to make it work.  I really didn't want a showcase just due to the size.  But you really have to be standing back from a 36" tube to play comfortably.