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Gamecab:
I also built a 1 UP Cab but had not sway to it and I was glad for that.  I made my 1UP from 3/4 MDF, 1X1's as 1Up suggested and about 2 billion very corse threaded screws which were all pre-drilled and counter sunk into the 1x1's.  I also think that joining the pieces with liquid nails also helped.
My First Cabinet on the other hand had a dangerous sway to it but that's another story for a different thread..

paigeoliver:
The monitor shelf or mounting stuff, along with the control panel and the extra wood in the marquee area pretty much eliminates the need for a frame.

Real cabinets don't have frames.

hyiu:
ohh... and for the monitor sagging....

I just realized that most of your guys are simply mounting the monitor inside the cab... (so... the monitor position has a rectangular hole... and the monitor sits there and the whole frame is supporting the weight.... (that might be a better case since the weight is distributed a little more evenly....

on my cab... I'm simply using a computer mon (completely intact....) and the monitor is standing on a shelf.... so... for me... the weight is more concenttrated in the middle... and harder on the wood... (that's why I added the metal bar...)

Santoro:

--- Quote from: 1UP on March 09, 2004, 03:56:04 pm ---My cab doesn't have a frame and it is solid.  It does use 1x1's to join the sides.......
{snip}.....Also, I am talking to a builder about having my cabinets mass-produced, and he says a frame isn't necessary at all if you put the panels together correctly (he recommends using dadoes.)

--- End quote ---

How do you connect the 1x1's to the sides?  {edit -never mind- found it on your website.  thx}

(Thinking out loud here......)
I am also thinking about dadoes.  I have the tools required, but am not sure where I would use dadoes.  I imagine on the bottom, middle "shelf", and top is where most would do it.  But I think I am going to rig up a 2x4 mounting apparatus for the monitor instead of a shelf.    Would that provide adequate stiffening of the frame?  Would the bottom dado be able to take all of the downward forces from the sides?  I would probably need to shore it up with ledgers or something.

By the time I do all that, I might as well have built a frame!  

Sounds like I need to experiment a bit.

Santoro:
Ressurecting a dead thread here....

I have started work on a frameless cab, and I have to say that my worries about sway were probably unfounded.   I am using ledgers and not dadoes, and it seems really sturdy nonetheless.  

As an added bonus, it is a lot easier to build this way!

Just for the record.

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