I then laid a 2×2 frame screwed into the side panels, then screwed the floor panel into those: I also went ahead a cut the hole for the coin door up front:Īnd here’s the first three panels drying: I used biscuits to join the major panels: This go-round I decided to use a new (to me) tool. On my arcade cabinet I drilled and screwed directly into the sides which then took a good bit of filling and sanding to level. This led to a sore back and less precise cuts than I may have wished for but in the end I have my cabinet sides and bottom: I do have a miter saw, but anything over 12″ or so would need to be done with a circular saw. It was a small folding portable model anyway and using it for this project would have been a challenge. Unfortunately I no longer have my table saw. So here we have the rough sketch to work off of: That’s 15″ in the front, 22.5″ in the back. I decided to give it about a 7″ rise, a few inches for the playfield and a few more for the glass. There is some debate over the ‘best’ angle for the playfield and glass with no real consensus. Add a couple inches breathing room and I went with 47″ overall length. Starting from the front: lockdown bars seem to be in the 3.5-4″ range, the backglass needs a 5-6″ flat ‘shelf’ to sit on, and 40″ TVs seem to come in around 36″ wide. So, cabinet width of 22″, subtract out 1.5″ for the plywood thickness and the interior dimensions are 20.5″. A lot of people suggest building the cabinet to match the dimensions of the TV going inside it however I would like the option of using a legitimate lockdown bar in the future and they are far easier to find for standard width cabinets. In keeping with the streamlined (relatively) design of my arcade cabinet I decided a standard body was about right for me. From what I read the 120hz may not be super useful in the cab but the screen is nice none-the-less.Īs for design, it seems the most popular cabinets on the forums are widebodies followed by various flavors of mini-pins. Newegg had a holiday special on a refurbished 40″ Visio TV with 120hz. The screen is fine but the stand was destroyed. In addition, I have a 24″ Samsung monitor that was damaged in a move over 5 years ago for backglass. Hopefully they’ll have the juice to push these tables. I have a spare Core2Duo motherboard, CPU, and RAM and an older nVidia graphics card lying around. What I did know is that I wanted to get moving on *something* and I’d have some free time around the holidays so I ordered a coin door, legs, and some buttons to get my butt in gear. Even after spending a number of hours browsing vpforums and the HyperPin cabinet forums I still wasn’t totally sure what I wanted to build.
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