Moving indoors .....

Gave the cabinet another coat of black enamel saturday morning , things seemed to be moving along nicely until the wind blew up and blew some sawdust on the side panels.
Enamel paint is very sticky in its early stages of life , so i have found out .. LOL
So after another round of sanding down I dragged the cabinet inside to finish it off.
The panasonic car speakers and the keyboard drawer have been installed , and the blue edging has been painted too.
Cant take any photos as the Mrs has packed the camera into her suitcase and is going away for a week.

Anzac Day

Having the day off, I thought i'd get into it and get the first coat of black paint done. Had it all done pretty quickly , and it looks nice and glossy. Had to buy the can last night as I knew Bunnings wouldn't be open for the public holiday.
Picked up the monitor (Samsung 1100p) from the guy i won it off from ebay - he only lived 5 mins up the road.. lucky that. :)
Theres a pic of the cab as it is now , I positioned the monitor surround panel in its place to see how it would look. - Thats been undercoated now , and I'll give it another coat tomorrow night.

Another weekend bites the dust.

Its starting to look like the end is getting closer now, I finished the second layer of undercoat on saturday and its just about all ready to be painted its final colour. The speaker holes have been cut and that panel is painted and placed in its position.
Had to make some minor adjustments - the coin door was cut for the full size but i decided to put a fixed piece about it , so it had to be cut about 90mm shorter. That panel will be for volume controls, headphone sockets , and I'll put a USB terminal there too.


Ive cut the control panel out now , so ill just have to start on the box.

Monitor aquired

I won a 21" monitor off E-bay last night. Never knew last minute bidding could be so furious !!! I think i placed the winning bid with about 9 secs to go !!!
I'll be picking it up during the week , so next weekend i can position the shelf.
Filled the screw holes and painted the first coat of undercoat yesterday, so ill sand it down and do another coat thismorning.

2nd weekend all done

Managed to get a good start on it on sunday , but I was under pressure as I promised the Mrs we would go out for lunch to celebrate our 3rd anniversary.
I had to get her to come out and give me a hand in the end , and she was quite happy with the way it was turning out.


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I havent installed the speaker shelf yet , as I have to get them this week sometime and cut the holes to suit.

Im waiting till i get a monitor off ebay before i install the monitor shelf , and also i might have to shorten the keyboard drawer depending on the angle of the monitor shelf.






Here is how it looks at the moment , i have put 2 rollers on the back and some large wooden feet on the front ( I'll get a pic of those soon)
Next weekend I'll putty the screw holes , and use some no-more-gaps and then it will be ready for the undercoat.
As it turned out , I didnt finish till around 1:30pm.... so lunch was a little late. :D

Late start today ...

By the time i finally started working on this today (after lunch) , I knew i wouldn't get everything done that i wanted to. At least i managed to plane the edges down on the 2 side panels , and apply the bracing to the sides.

I'm not going to put "T" molding on the edges , I'll just paint them in the offset color - blue, as the rest of the cabinet will be black.

Gotta make sure i start on this early tomorrow ....... lol

The end of day 1

I have based my design on Elvis' plans (here) , and a little on Knievel's Neon







After about 6 hours of measuring , sawing , double-checking and modifying the design, all the pieces have been cut out and ready for sanding.




So next weekend I will start the sanding, and start assembling the cabinet.

In the beginning .....

Well , the beginning of the end for my spare time has come.
After a week or two of studying plans and getting ideas , im about to start on the arcade cabinet.
It all began years ago when i came across MAME in a computer magazine. After downloading a few roms , i was hooked. But playing on the keyboard wasnt much fun , so I searched a bit and came across www.ozstick.com.au and bought a 4-button joystick.



I bought the panels the other day , and borrowed some tools from my dad.. (hope he doesnt want them back too soon. LOL )

I'll post some pics of thismornings work later on ...