Monitor Chassis Suppliers???

[mahuti]

I am looking for a metal monitor chassis to put my TV tube into so I can securely bolt it into the cabinet. Anybody know of any suppliers of those metal chassis?

[rampy]

I am looking for a metal monitor chassis to put my TV tube into so I can securely bolt it into the cabinet. Anybody know of any suppliers of those metal chassis?

uhm... 8liners?  but you probably don't mean chasis in that manner...  (chassis in arcade lingo refers the circuit board part of the monitor (basically everything that connects to the tube))

Sounds like you want some sorta bracket thingie...  are you de-casing your TV?  or are looking for more generic mounting options?

rampy

[SNAAAKE]

bah..you will have hard time finding just the metal bracet...I dont even think you can buy those .
Just so you know...

[mahuti]

Chassis, yeah, I know the lingo, but I don't mean the boards, I mean the mounting brackets.

I haven't been able to find any, Which seems silly, with all of the other things that arcade suppliers sell. I know I can build something out of wood, etc. but I like the mounting hardware that comes with real cabinets. I like shelling tv's to install into the cabinets, and I don't like using the cases. I want an arcade cabinet I can lay down flat in my van and move easily, or have it get pushed around and jostled without any movement.

[rampy]

ahh... well, sometimes the TV's have those same style mounts already once you de-case them so it's baddaboom.  (if you have the outer/cabinet mounts...)  which I assume is the missing piece in your case...

Uhm...  I know arcade distributor/operators should have these, especially if they work with conversions/gutting old cabs/ stripping for parts...  I think they are or can be called universal mount (something)...

for example kevin from kands near me has this stuff.... although I wouldn't know what would be right to fit your TV or your cabinet...

http://www.ksamusements.com/monitorpts.htm

[Ken Layton]

You should be able to buy the metal frames from Wells-Gardner and/or Sharp Image.

[Ken Layton]

I just spotted a complete monitor mounting brackets setup on ebay. Check out item number 3251309020 and it has 8 days to go.

[paigeoliver]

You should be able to get one local for nothing or near nothing if you just post on RGVAC. I have thrown tons of them away in the past.

BUT, I prefer to mount decased televisions and PC monitors on wood myself.

[SirPeale]

Paige: how about a step-by-step?  

I've got a Dynamo that a monitor mount would just drop into it, but I don't know how I'd do a wooden mount.

Same goes for a Moon Patrol I've got.  Easy with brackets, but a computer monitor just sitting on the shelf seems rather unstable.

[SirPeale]

I know there was a picture in Paige's reply, but it's gone now.  Can you reattach it, sir?

[paigeoliver]

I will take some good pictures later.But the basic idea is that you get a flat board and cut out around the tube so that the tube mounting bolts go into the wood. Then the boardset either gets mounted on a second piece of wood, or THROUGH the bottom of the one the tube is on (mine is done the second way).

[OSCAR]

Paige: how about a step-by-step?  

I've got a Dynamo that a monitor mount would just drop into it, but I don't know how I'd do a wooden mount.

Same goes for a Moon Patrol I've got.  Easy with brackets, but a computer monitor just sitting on the shelf seems rather unstable.

Is this the type of mount you are referring to?  It's a TV tube on a wooden monitor board:

http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/monitor-wood-frame.jpg
http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/8liners3.jpg
http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/8liners4.jpg

[SirPeale]

Pretty much.  I'm working things out on this end.  Next monitor I break open I'll have to play with how that will mount.

[paigeoliver]

Yeah, I did mine like that picture except that I cut a slot underneath the tube part and bolted the chassis into the slot (it was on a metal plate and had two mounting holes in front which made it easy).