@ Ond:
Yeah, yeah. I know how to use a router with a ball-bearing and a flush cutting bit, and if I were to simply strip the existing plain laminate and replace it with another plain external covering, gluing down a rough-cut sheet of it and then trimming it to fit, that would definitely be the way to go. The point of doing this measured drawing is that I can now look for/modify/create custom side art and then make it fit the actual dimensions of the sides before blowing it up to full size only to find that it then doesn't look right.
Specificly, I'm looking to use multiple species of wood veneers to form a wood in-lay/mosaic rather than using plastics and stickers. Field gluing a framing sheet down and then re-removing the areas to be replaced by other bits of veneer may, ultimately, be the way to go, but that's an implementation detail. Between here and implementation lays the design process. For that, the measured drawing is a useful tool.
And no, I don't imagine using this cabinet as a model to build my own from scratch. The wood is solid, modulo a bit of mildew, which will be knocked down with a fungicide, and a bit of water damage to the bottom inch or two, which will be far, far simpler to repair than to build an entire cabinet anew.
And yea, this thing is a large beast in my living room ATM, but I like the extra volume. I'm already planning to add a lot more hardware inside than just a 1 TB HD with GNU/Linux/MAME and a nano-ITX mobo driving an LCD. This thing screams out to be pimped out inside and out. And with god as my witness. I. Am. That. Pimp!
I guess this would be a good time for an update as well...
I've got the power cable and plugs. Now to drill out the power pass-through on the lower-right-rear and glue and screw in the mounting blocks for the cabinet socket. I've also ordered several Kenwood KFC-6972ie's, mostly for a HT project, but two of them are destined for the speaker panel on this beast. I'm having to spend the good weather days cutting down trash trees in the back yard, but once that's done, the next good weather day will be spent on this cabinet.
I'm really falling in love with the idea of a pair of booms holding a pair of rear speakers behind the player positions. With that 6" bump-in in the lower-rear, I really want to make it so the booms can fold to place those rear speakers in that space without the need to remove the speakers themselves.
I've realized that the three of four front player joysticks that the CP has are, in fact, Happ Competition units, but I can't find anyplace that sells JUST the batts and associated hardware, which, modulo the one that's missing entirely, is all that I'm missing for the front players. Still, $50 will get me all new Happ Competition joysticks in red, green, blue, and yellow oval bats, and having these existing units in the parts bin would not be a total waste. I'm also of the opinion that for my tastes, I would rather reorder the four player hardware to be, from L-R: player 4, red; player 2, green; player 1, blue; and player 3, yellow. Is there a compelling reason not to implement that arrangement/color scheme?
A friend of mine who used to be on here said there's a sort of out-of-control-control-panel Hall of Shame thread somewhere showcasing control panels that tried to cram too much stuff in. I can't seem to find it by searching, though. Can someone please link me to any such threads?
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