Rotating monitors...

[Nerd Of Nerds]

Those of you who have rotating monitors, how did you go about getting it in and rotating it once the arcade was closed up? I am putting a 17" vga (16" viewable) monitor in my arcade and would like to have it rotate. THANKS

[AlanS17]

I've been looking at different ways to get my 19" front-mount arcade style monitor to rotate, but still be stable and jerk-free. Still haven't found one... Any ideas? I was thinking about a really big lazy susan with a large enough hole through the middle, but I still haven't found one.

[Nerd Of Nerds]

Well, the way i was going to mount mine isn't going to work . I need to find some different wheels for it to move on, the monitor would sit too high up , but once i have new wheels it should be fine

If by not jerky you mean not moving around while playing then you could make it so that there is something you have to pull out to move it(the monitor). i still don't know how i will move mine while the arcade is closed up any help would be great

[telengard]

Those of you who have rotating monitors, how did you go about getting it in and rotating it once the arcade was closed up? I am putting a 17" vga (16" viewable) monitor in my arcade and would like to have it rotate. THANKS

Getting it in really depends on your design for allowing rotation.
My 19" monitor was a very awkward to put inside the cab and
luckily I've only had to remove it once to adjust the height.  As
for rotating it after it's in, I originally wanted it motorized but
I came up with a pretty low-tech solution which works well.
I put a cabinet knob on the assembly and made it so that I can easily pull back the glass to get at it.  It sounds bad but it actually works quite well.  Check out my link below to see more details.

Good luck!  The rotating monitor part of the cab took me quite a while to do but is *WELL* worth it.  

~telengard

[AlanS17]

Keeping it from rotating wouldn't be hard. My concern is lots of people use a circle resting on wheels. It depends on gravity to work right. I want something so stable it cuold work upside down. That would never happen, but you get the idea. If I'm moving the machine through a door or up staris I don't want the monitor popping out.

[telengard]

Keeping it from rotating wouldn't be hard. My concern is lots of people use a circle resting on wheels. It depends on gravity to work right. I want something so stable it cuold work upside down. That would never happen, but you get the idea. If I'm moving the machine through a door or up staris I don't want the monitor popping out.

hehe, yeah, you'll have a tough time coming up with something like that.  Mine is pretty dang solid.  I have no worries about it at all.  I went through extra trouble to make sure everything was very stable.  I've also shuffled the cab around from place to place in my living room and had no issues at all.

~telengard

[AlanS17]

I was thinking of using the rotating assembly of a really large lazy susan and just cutting the middle section out. Unfortunately, lazy susans of that size are like $50 or $60. I don't want to spend that much.

[Carsten Carlos]

I've got a commercial build motorized monitormount. Though in very early stadium, my frontend rotates the monitor automatically if needed for the selected games.

Check out some pictures on my homepage (link below)!