Mini Galaga UPDATE 9/21

[crashwg]

I'm currently building a 4' tall galaga, with a few modifications...

The control panel will of course have more to it than the original, including 7 player & ?admin/coin buttons and a 2

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Here are my plans.  Notice my resoursfulness with the 8

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I've managed to squeeze most of the material needed out of 1 97x49 sheet of  MDF.  I also needed a 2'x4'x

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this one is aproximatly where the mdf will be cut, not much more to explain...

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It's been three weeks since I started this project and I haven't made much progress.  Matter of fact, I didn't do anything over the past few weeks.  But what I did do was cut out the the sides and install some strapping (not quite sure that's what you call it).  I also got the monitor that will be going into this cab, it's a 17" pc monitor, nothing special.

Well, here's the pictures.  I think I'll call it moviepropcab for a while  

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another

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last one

[dirt]

looks like that is going to be a cool cab. i like it.



dirt

[CitznFish]

I dunno, I think it looks a little thin in the last image. Will a monitor fit?  

[Stingray]

LOL @ CitznFish!

The overall shape looks nice. I look forward to seeing it progress.

-S

[patrickl]

Hmmmmmmmm ... Galaga ...    *drewls*

[pathdoc2]

Your construction tecnnique looks exactly like mine and I always put the 2 sides together to make every thing lines up.  Nice work.

[crashwg]

Well, it's been about 7 weeks now since I have kept you all updated on my progress.  Mostly because there hasn't been much...    Infact, I pretty much stoped working on it for about 6 weeks.

So here's what I've done:
Assembled the bottom and attached it
Attached the top and kickplate
Sanded, painted and attached the hinge for the CP
Attached the two pieces that will be the CP to eachother
Rounded over the edge of the CP
Attached back door
Attached locking mechanisms to back door
well, I guess that's about it for now

A few things I will probably do in the next week or so are:
Remove back door hinge, sand & paint it
Trim CP about 1/16" so it fits right
Order t-molding & slot cutting bit
Figgure out how I'm going to mount the monitor
Fit trackball and joystick onto CP and coutersink them both
Finalize button design and drill holes

I think I should be ready to paint it if I complete the list above, even though some stuff will not necesarrily (sp) be attached.  We'll see...

Ok, here's some pics now.

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Here's the big picture, with yard stick for size comparison.

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and here's a close up of the CP, which is not attached yet as it is a little too tall.  notice the super awesome curve on there... The way I had to do that was rip the corner off and sand it by hand because the angle is more than 90

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Well, my camera died... so no more pics tonight   maybe I'll post some more tomorrow.

[dmsuchy]

Looks great! Is your CP on piano hinge?

[crashwg]

Looks great! Is your CP on piano hinge?

YUP!

Piano hinge for CP and back door.  CP will flip down for easy access to wiring & such.  It will be held down with two screws, one at each of the top corners.

[AlanS17]

I would suggest some sort of clamping system over screws (or even velcro for that matter) because mine used screws and over time it finally stripped out the holes... Those things can only be re-inserted so many times before they start to slide right back out.

[crashwg]

I should rephrase that I guess...

Bolts, not screws, is what I will be using.  I think probably some sort of pan-head bolt with maybe a hex head.  And for the corasponding side ?t-nuts?, I haven't figured that part out yet.  

[Minwah]

and here's a close up of the CP, which is not attached yet as it is a little too tall.  notice the super awesome curve on there... The way I had to do that was rip the corner off and sand it by hand because the angle is more than 90

[JoyMonkey]

Looking good! I did look at this before, but couldn't picture it when we were talking about it at the get-together. You need to get her playing that thing as soon as possible, mould a future champion for the FunSpot tournament!

[patrickl]

... The way I had to do that was rip the corner off and sand it by hand because the angle is more than 90

[Acids]

... The way I had to do that was rip the corner off and sand it by hand because the angle is more than 90

[crashwg]

In case you haven't noticed by now, I'm working on this project rather slowly for some reason or another.  Usually it's just because I don't realy feal like it or I don't wake up early enough in the day to get some good outside work done before the sun goes down.

It's been painted for about 2 months now, I probably should have taken pictures and posted them before, but I never got arround to it.  Oh yea, and it's had t-molding for about the same amount of time.

The control panel has been routed and drilled to accept the mounting plates for both the t-stick and 2

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Another

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and another... check out the piano hinge on the left side of the back door.  Oh yea!

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here's the CP with the mounting plates and the base of the t-stick installed.  Yes there's a piece of paper towel stuck in the joy hole, it's there because I couldn't remove the base of the stick when I primed it.

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Here's the monitor that will be going in the cab.  I drew on the pic to illustrate where the piece on the side will be cut off, the approximate location of the speaker holes and also the supports I added for the monitor's PCB.  

In case you're wondering, yes I am a little worried about the PCB's supports but it seems to hold up pretty well as it has been tied to that chair like that for a couple weeks now...

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And to answer your question partricl...  I wanted the front part of the cp to follow the outward angle of the cab but if I did it with a 90

[AGGIEZ]

And to answer your question partricl...  I wanted the front part of the cp to follow the outward angle of the cab but if I did it with a 90

[patrickl]

And to answer your question partricl...  I wanted the front part of the cp to follow the outward angle of the cab but if I did it with a 90

[Minwah]

In case you haven't noticed by now, I'm working on this project rather slowly for some reason or another.  Usually it's just because I don't realy feal like it or I don't wake up early enough in the day to get some good outside work done before the sun goes down.

Heh, I know the feeling.  I've clocked up 50-odd days on my cab, but most of those 'days' were probably an hour or 2.  Full-time jobs, alcohol and working in a shed several miles away don't help.  Not to mention UK winter weather  

Your cabs looking good now tho, get on with it and finish it!

[crashwg]

Or did you just not like the standard 15 degree CP angle (from the kickplate or 13 degrees from the front of the sides) of the regular cab?

I had two sets of plans that were quite different so I kinda winged it.  The plans, seen in post #2, were pretty much free handed with the help of a yardstick and a string (for the radii).