I used a file to clean up any jaggies left over from my jigsaw and to square the holes up. The hardest part of making your own coin door is getting the holes to be square. Will these stay put if I hot glue them into place? You will have to get on your hands and knees to be able to see them so looks are not too important. Inside the coin return holes, I am going to put usb plugins using usb extension cables. If I was to do the coin door again, I would not have made the corners so round. I need a new router bit though as mine is getting dull and scorched the wood in a few places. The coin door is coming along quite good I think. I printed up the marquee at work on a color laser printer and installed it to see how it looked, not too bad for a paper marquee. I started work on the keybord encoder from a keyboard I picked up from the goodwill, I'm going hardcore on this one (plus I'm kind of on a tight budget). I got a hole cut in the top for the exaust fan. Someone once said the devil is in the details and I have to say that the farther along on this project I get, the more messy and disorganized my garage gets and the harder it is to find the tools I need, so progress is slow. I also picked up some Midway 25 cent coin door inserts from thisoldgame. I received the marquee retainer from Ebay(TornadoTerrys was out), pushbuttons (from TornadoTerrys) and tmolding () last week. I'm planning on printing the bezel and sandwiching it between 2 pieces of tempered glass. Any tips with working with bezels? On my first cab I elected to use graylite #14 smoked glass and I did not use a bezel at all. Do you think it looks too busy? What can I do to make it better? I have 18.5" wide by 15" tall with about a 2" thick border. If anyone wants the large version, pm me and I'll email it to you. It is almost the same as JamieMcShan's except for the button layout. My son who is only 5 likes playing some of the fighter games like marvell vs capcom, otherwise I would have stuck with the traditional vertical layout and only stuck with classic games. I'm also going with a horizontal layout so I can get the most bang for the buck in terms of games that can be played on it. My cab will be using a 6 button layout unlike the 2 or 3 buttons I see on most minis. In fact most of the graphics will be based mostly on his and I'm planning on building a mini coin door like the one he built and hopefully I'll be using the Midway label he created for his coin door. This cab is inspired by (well Pacman, duh!) the mini cab featured in Saint's book, which helped a lot on my first cab BTW, and by this post by JamieMcShan. To see the full post plus comments, head over to BYOAC.Ĭlick the read more button for the whole story. The following was copied from BYOAC minus comments from other BYOAC members. This article was originally posted at BYOAC on 10-19-2008 and last updated on 11-16-2008 Home-made arcade cabinet I built for Hayden My advice for anyone wanting to section hike the Wonderland Trail My WT Adventure – Fryingpan Creek to Box Canyon My WT Adventure – Mowich Lake to Fryingpan Creek My WT Adventure – Longmire to Mowich Lake
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