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lukistke:

--- Quote ---Also, I built my cab with ingenious little hidden locking mechanisms on every panel so that I can break it down completely to move it.  I would still do that, but I found a far superior way to do it that I used on some of the later panels and I wish I had done the whole cab that way.
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Please share....

Kayden:
I think my biggest mistake was starting with a cabinet that only had a 19" monitor.

I also should have payed attention to the bottom of my CP when I remade it from the original.  The switch on the P1 start button hits the glass of the monitor bezel and pops out of the button.  So I have to have it rotated 30 degrees   :timebomb: .  Oddly, the P2 button doesn't have the same issue and it's at the same height.  The wood lip that holds the glass up also hit some of the P1 buttons so I just took my saw to it and it fits now. 

I also wouldn't have sold off my 27" CRT TV for $50 last year if I knew I was going to make an arcade cabinet.   :-\

Octo:

--- Quote from: marlborroman13 on April 04, 2009, 08:30:36 pm ---Also, would not have put the spinner in front of my trackball. I bought my CPT from Knievel, so there is a hole in the plexi and CPT for a spinner. We like to play a lot of Golden Tee and I never installed my spinner. It would just be too brutal.

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My solution to that would be to make a mounting bracket under the CP using some of those dual-position cabinet locks. You know the ones that you push and they pop open, then push to close... That way you can push the spinner down flush with the CP when not in use. I've never seen it done, but that goes for a lot of stuff I see on here.  :burgerking:

shmokes:

--- Quote from: lukistke on April 07, 2009, 11:12:01 am ---
--- Quote ---Also, I built my cab with ingenious little hidden locking mechanisms on every panel so that I can break it down completely to move it.  I would still do that, but I found a far superior way to do it that I used on some of the later panels and I wish I had done the whole cab that way.
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Please share....

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I describe it in a rather comical thread here.  You don't spend much time in the EE or Political forums so you may not know this, but many people try their hardest to dislike anything I do.  It's hilarious.   ;D

Here are some pictures.  It's more complete now, with real brushed aluminum t-molding and the monitor installed, but I can't seem to find where the newer pictures are.  Anyway, the first pic shows all the braces and the base attached to one side panel.  The other side panel has eight bolts permanently mounted to it that fit into all the pre-drilled holes on the base and braces.  So it will just slide into place and then I screw nuts onto the bolts.  The second picture shows a close-up of how it works.  All of those long bolts are carriage bolts that are permanently mounted in the side-panels (counter-sunk and laminated over, so you can't see the hardware).  But if you notice the top panels in the second picture, I worked it opposite.  Instead of permanently mounting carriage bolts into the panels, I mounted t-nuts in the panels and laminated over the top of them, so I just need to align the holes and then screw in a bolt.  It's much easier to work with, and when I move it the panels don't have big bolts sticking out of them -- they can be stacked flat.  It's a much better way of doing it and I wish I had done the whole thing that way.

The rest of the pictures just show the project coming together.

Kayden:
That is ridiculously awesome.  How do you make sure people don't keep rotating it the same way until the wires snap?

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