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pointdablame:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on July 11, 2005, 03:30:37 am ---He phrased it funny, the back door on an arcade game isn't the WHOLE back, it is an area from about a foot off the ground up until the top starts sloping forward. This varies game to game, and some games don't have "back" doors at all, instead having access somewhere else.
Some cabs are almost all doors (and even THOSE don't have frames).
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yeah sorry about that, but Paige knows what i mean. If you think of the back panel as a percentage, the door mignt be something like 80% of the back, with 10% on the bottom and top secured to the rest of the cab, which adds support.
USSEnterprise:
I understand now. Thanks
nickbuol:
My first cabinet was "frame free" and was VERY sturdy! The one I am building now does not have a frame either, but I am using some home-made 1x2 (took a couple of 2x4s and ripped them in half) and I am using them to make quick and easy joints to screw in to) to make it easier to assemble by myself. I was able to screw a piece of the cabinet to one of my cut pieces of 1x2, and then I used some clamps and held the next piece to it and screwed that in as well.
Hard to describe. I am sure that my joints will be stronger, but I was never worried about them in the past either.
So anyway, if you aren't sure, then put some wood pieces on the inside of all of the corners and you will have a nice area to screw in to, but beyond that, you will be fine.
spystyle:
I build a cabinets that have a partial frame, that would be sturdy without a back panel.
elvis:
My cab uses 18mm (3/4 inch for you US kids) MDF. At each point where two pieces meet at 90 degrees, I use a 42mm square (roughly 1.5 inches square) piece of pine, which is screwed and glued.
To be honest, that's probably overkill. The unit is tough as can be, and very heavy.
Check any other cabinets, shelves or kitchen cupboards in your house and see what they've used there.
The only really important support bit for me was the monitor shelf. That needed to hold my 37KG (82 lbs) ancient lead-lined monitor. Outside of that, everything else is happy enough.
Check out the "images" page on my site for a visual diary of the build process, including the pine supports:
http://benchmark.mameworld.net/cab1/
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