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notbillcosby:
Simple but great suggestion on enclosing the controls. I was definitely thinking of just making an inverted L shaped panel, but it would take very little work to add another L to that and make them enclosed "bricks" with an L-shaped shelf in the machine that each control panel block would sit in and bolt/latch down in one way or another.

I took my 19" LCD out tonight and decided it would probably be a bit small to build a cab around. And really, I'd LIKE to use a CRT to get the look right. Sigh... This is where I start spending more money and the cabinet gets less and less portable. If I do this in phases, a CRT "bartop" top half of this machine would still wind up being kinda big. Agh... I guess I have to figure out what's more important here.

Le Chuck:
Build two bezels.  One that holds the LCD for when you're in bartop mode and have a shelf you can add once you go full size for the CRT.  Just make sure you've got the right cabinet depth. 

notbillcosby:
Eh, if I'm doing that I might as well use the CRT the whole time, right? It'll be just as big either way...

<pre post edit> After looking at some lowboy pics again, you might be on to something; The crt would make the bartop cabinet tall rather than wider or deeper than the LCD option, because of the angle. Right? You wouldn't be able to chop it right below the panel to make it the bartop. However, I'm not sure how much of its life would actually be spent as a bartop other than in a moving van. Not poo-pooing anyone's ideas, just brainstorming still... but the bartop chunk may realistically only ever happen when I'm tearing it down to move it to a new location.

I do like the idea of using some sort of shelf to support the monitor. I'd like to use a TV without the whole case removed so it isn't permanently attached and i could open a side/back panel and take it out when i'm going to move it to further reduce how extremely cumbersome it is. Anyone have plans for a good way to do that, or does pretty much everyone actually suspend the monitor form the bezel in a lowboy? Maybe i'm doing myself a disservice by making it this back-slanty.

paigeoliver:
Just build one, then build the other. The cost of wood and of old used CRT monitors is so low that you probably don't need to try to reuse your bartop cabinet.

Build the bartop with a vertical monitor and then do a horizontal on your full size machine.

Le Chuck:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on July 02, 2012, 06:59:58 pm ---Just build one, then build the other. The cost of wood and of old used CRT monitors is so low that you probably don't need to try to reuse your bartop cabinet.

Build the bartop with a vertical monitor and then do a horizontal on your full size machine.

--- End quote ---

This isn't bad advice.  You'll learn so much on the bartop that you'll be ready to fix all the inevitable errors of first time cabinet building on the full size. 

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