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sandheaver:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 29, 2013, 03:42:29 pm ---Unfortunately control panels that stick out way too far are one of those things that have been sticking to original designs since the early days of scratchbuilt mame cabinets. It is because lots of guys in the early days (and some still today) bolted on oversized control panels to stock sized cabinets and the guys who drew up the first few sets of cabinet plans seemed to have little familiarity with any real cabinets and drew way too much upon those weird converted cabinets, and then everyone just copied it from everyone else.  I have a scratchbuilt cabinet that someone else built and I could easily flip the thing over with one hand if I pressed down on the overhanging panel too hard.

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Agreed.  Custom-designed cabinets, though they may look like you want them to, haven't been put through their paces.  Production cabinets have been engineered, tested, modified, tested again, etc.  You'll never find a production cabinet with anything approaching an issue that could have resulted in a lawsuit.

They were built the way they were built for good reasons.  People spent a lot of time and money designing cabinets for production, testing them, and so on.  It is folly to throw that work away and design your own, IMHO.  BASE your design on them, but modify the insides, not the outsides.

That isn't my design aesthetic speaking, btw.  I don't care if your cabinet is ugly.  I care if your 3yo kid reaches up and pulls down on the joystick and gets pinned under there.

Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: Gray_Area on March 29, 2013, 02:55:11 pm ---This may require a leverage plate or something at the foot of the cab, but totally worth the foot room. I find the cp length my candy has is minimum comfort.
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This *was* also done on a few arcade uprights. In any case, design smartly - and how you want it.

DHTech:
Final design for the side of my cabinet, made the CP a little shorter and rounded corners, have a local company that will CNC cut it for me.  ;D

Unstupid:
What angle does your cp sit at?  I think 7 degrees is about the most slope you want... Any more and it starts to get akward/uncomfortable. 

Also the top of your cab, the piece that measures 152,  can you try and make that bigger so that the speaker panel and the top back panel are parallel...  Not saying it has to.... Just curious what it would look like.....

DHTech:
Thought I might try your suggestion and extend the top line to make it more symmetrical, yeah I like that.

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