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21" monitor in cocktail cab?
rchadd:
--- Quote from: Tilzs on April 30, 2004, 11:17:40 am ---...a good approach might be to mount some cleets made from some scrap pieces of wood on the inside of your cab. You can then set the monitor down and brackets sit down on these like a shelf.
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sorry but i don't quite understand what you mean by cleets. can you explain? maybe a simple illustration would good?
thanks for your advice.
Tilzs:
Check out this thread by oscar. Check out the photo "Bezel board Brace" Since you already have mounting braces on your monitor, you can skip probably the whole building of a bezel on your cocktail.
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=18049
rchadd:
yes! oscars mounting method would do the job well. just wondering how easy to find the Z brackets only ever seen L's in Homebase ( i'm in the UK )
Also...somebody suggested in another posting: boxing in the monitor so if i ever moved the cab i could remove the monitor (to save weight) and it would then be well protected outside of the cab. what do you think?
i assume i would have to make sure there were plenty of ventilation holes in the box!
do arcade monitors get very hot during operation?
maybe it would need a fan on it?
mmmPeanutButter:
--- Quote from: rchadd on April 30, 2004, 05:40:37 pm ---yes! oscars mounting method would do the job well. just wondering how easy to find the Z brackets only ever seen L's in Homebase ( i'm in the UK )
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OSCAR just bent L-brackets in a vice. Good luck.
OSCAR:
That is correct, I used a vise to add the extra bend in the L-brackets. What I use for making special brackets and such is a vise brake like this one: http://www.grizzly.com/products/item.cfm?ItemNumber=H3243. It's one of those types of tools that you pick up on a whim, then wonder how you got along without it. I use the vise brake so much, I bought another vise for my workbench so I could keep them installed all the time.
Anyway, another method for installing a monitor with a shelf-style frame is to attach it to the side panel of the cab, like how the Midway cocktails were made. The side opposite the coin door swung down (the top is permanently attached to the side panel), and so the entire top, side, and monitor swings out of the cab when you open it up. Below is a pic of how I installed a W-G K7000 in my cocktail. Notice how I built a riser base for the monitor to center the monitor in the top cutout.
This makes it very easy to access the entire monitor and guts of the cocktail. There are more pics at www.oscarcontrols.com/cocktail.
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