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stigzler:
Looking to get a number of Marquees printed. What I'm looking to design is a quick change marquee system. The basics of my marquee below:



What I'm thinking is for some kind of C shaped housing along the left, bottom and right to slide the marquees into from the top.

The top could have some kind of hinged L-shaped (auto-locking?) bracket to lift up and fix down to free up the top of the marquee space to let you slide it in...

Hope that makes sense!?

Problem being, my imagination is stuck there! No idea what materials or things would be available for this!

Any ideas?

ChanceKJ:
I had an idea for a removable top and bottom L Bracket that was held in place with flush mount rare earth magnets.

I have some drawings and tests of the idea in my FLYNN's build thread. 

The idea is basically to use L brackets made from bending tin.  1" along the one side, and ¾" along the front facing side.

Rabbit the top and bottom edge of the the marquee box and inset some magnets.



a bracket like these. however this is Aluminium and has a 1" rise and run. If it were done it would have to be simply fabricated.



here are the inset rare earth magnets. these were available in North America via Lee Valley Tools, but i'm sure you can get them other places. 4 on the bottom and 2 on the top should be more than enough to hold the light tin brackets in place.



here i was just testing imbedding the magnets. i used a spade bit, but a forester bit and ¾" wood would be best.



ultimately the plan was to use this to avoid seeing screws rather than being able to simply swap out my marquee plexi. Since i'm only using one marquee there is really no need for this on my build. and now that i'm outweighing seeing 3-4 screw heads (or using glue) from all the extra work this would be i've decided to ditch the idea and just attach it in a traditional manor.

Not sure if this will help, but i figure this way you could just have a box with the plexi marquees in it and a couple magnetic brackets.   

DaOld Man:
You could also maybe make a cab marquee like I did on my current project "Gayles Jukebox".
I have changed it several times in the past few weeks.
Link to the thread is in my signature.

heyyouguys:
I was thinking about this topic as well. I was thinking about building, if possible, a slide in paper marquee in between two pieces of plexi. Just trying to figure the point where the opening would be for this, side or top? If on top, possibly making a small hidden hinged door, using barrel hinges or similar, saw them here in HaRuMaN's post http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130522.msg1431299.html#msg1431299

and use the rare earth magnet idea to keep it held down. Or even easier, use a magnetic cabinet latch with metal strip on door and magnet on side of cabinet. It costs $1.27 at Lowes.
 http://www.lowes.com/pd_424846-45395-ATG1633432_4294711029__?productId=4713065&Ns=p_product_qty_sales_dollar


I would draw it up but I haven't messed with google sketchup before and don't have paper around to draw up.

This may even work with your idea to just replace single plexi marquee as well.

What do you think?

eds1275:
I used some velcro on my small cabinets. The heavy dity stuff is awesome and leaves no screws showing, and lets you open up the two pieces of plexi easily and get a tight fit back together every time.

I fear though that the novelty of swapping out marquees will get old fast.

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