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Working on the control board some more, apart from the one button that was missing wired up all the buttons and joysticks.

Picked up a 28" lcd moniter at the boxing day sales, hoping to test out the jamma units and contols just sitting on the coffee table.

Turns out that jamma puts out such a low resolution picture a lcd moniter can't load it.  

After a bit of research online I can run a cga to vga converter which I have orderd along with some spare buttons for the cabinet.

Also playing around with a raspberry pie which I will attempting to run in the cabinet as well.

Progress picture - sanded back the bottom panel to apply another coat of floor treatment.

Marked out where the frame sits against the side pieces so the screws go into the right place.

Installed hinges on the top front piece on the base unit of the cabinet

Inside this compartment I will install controls to change what device is being run, the amp/speaker controls and a power kill switch

Working on the part of the cabinet that will be home to the controls.

Applied the floor coating to more pieces and attached some pieces to the frame.

Hey, i've got a Table saw you can borrow, will fit in car.

Sorted now I went out and saw nickrock and his friend in the weekend and they sorted me out with some help and the tools I needed, but thanks for the offer!

Or just clamp up some scrap wood as a guide and it will cut straight as an arrow

Some of these pieces are quite small and it makes it very hard to clamp down and run a skill saw across it.  Also one way is ok but cutting a angle the other way the skill saw fouls the clamp and its all to hard basket.

can you be bothered venturing to kelburn?

I would have been but I think I may be sorted now... If it falls through I'll msg you, you around this weekend? and do you have a buzzer I'm pretty keen on this buzzer business now!

I'm porirua based but I'm keen to make some progress on a project this weekend so I can travelish...

Hey people

I'm in need of a table saw that can cut angles, Ideally I'd love to find one to use this weekend.

Can pick one up if it'll fit into my car, or if someone has one setup somewhere I can use or if someone wants to do some cutting for me that would be fantastic, I think there's about 5 pieces I need to cut angles on and some pieces will be both sides, pieces are only about 600 long so shouldn't take too long. 

Can provide homemade whisky or cash for the troubles

Thanks in advance!

Bugger, feels, I found the prices at ironman (?) recyclers on whakatiki Street upper hutt pretty reasonable. Way cheaper than new, but still probably a bit more than you want to spend lol.

Booted up that raspberry Pi yet?

Would prefer to use the same wood throughout the build but thanks

No, today is crappy outside so might have a go at it soon.

would work it you turned up upside down wouldn't it?

This wouldn't work at all even if I made a new top piece, the angle of the front face is steeper than the angle on the back piece, I considered seeing if I could cut it all down a little to get two pieces that would work but they end up a little small for what I'd like.

I just have to remake a piece, it's not that bad was just very frustrated at the time.

Remove the wood from the mdf as careful as possible then light sand where it was glued and flip the wood and glue to a new piece of mdf.

(Opposite to original glued side)

Will give you a mirror image of what you got now.

Messy- yes

Time consuming -yes.

But may save ya buying more wood panels

I could try this but I don't like my chances the PVA is amazing and the wood breaks before the glue lets go on the joins, the only hope would be that the MDF breaks off just a little bit leaving some on the wood.  That's the best case scenario and even if that happens I have to hope the glue that will be on the wood paneling won't effect the stain that's going to go on it.

Could you trim both to be symmetrical? Frame will need adjusting obviously, but that is easier / cheaper than remaking one side perhaps?

I looked at that, it ends up a little small for what I'd like it to be, I was considering running a 27" screen for a while and if I did that I'd be fine but I'd prefer to be running a 32"

Thanks for all the ideas, I think the best answer is to just grow a pair stop winging and make another piece, I don't want to compromise the desired end result over it.

damn this is tonight/now/im useless

So spent some time this weekend working on the cabinet.

Have pretty much completed the two bottom side pieces (need a couple little cuts and some sanding).

Glued plenty of panel together and glued them to a side of a top piece

Because the cabinet is made from recycled flooring glued to thin mdf I can't really just screw or nail the outer pieces together to make the cabinet so I started making a frame for the bottom half of the cabinet aswell.  This cabinet is going to way a ton when its finished the frame isn't light and neither are the side pieces .

Neat! Have you seen these?

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLice_sU_6Rfhw7LK-tl8A8u1XYQKeuFri

Has some cool ideas.

Following your thread with interest.

Hey I have seen Pi before as I'm a Nintendo fan boy and follow a few Nintendo groups where these have popped up.  I havn't looked into trying to run both Pi and Jamma but I know I want to run Jamma but I may look into how messy it would be to have the one cabinet run both.

Thanks for the interest.

So the plan is the cabinet is going to a wooden exterior, I purchased some recycled wooden rimu flooring, the flooring has been milled down and is 12mm thick so I also got some 6mm mdf sheets I can glue the rimu to the mdf and make a cabinet.

I spent some time making up a paper pattern of how I wanted this new cabinet to look, its similar to my original one but it isn't rounded anywhere all the edges are straight, the top is wider to accommodate for the 32" screen and the area where the controllers are is smaller.

I then drew the patterns onto the 6mm mdf

I then clamped tow pieces of mdf together and cut out the two sides of the bottom half of the cabinet

Pieces of rimu were then glued together with some PVA

good meat, good to see you all again, had been a while.

I'm still getting through the meet sweats

will be interested to see how the clear sticks to the roof esp around the surface rust

Do you mean in a few months/years time? because it on there and seems fine.

So this happened!

Drove her to football then home.

Her hard at work lowering the value of my neighbor hood.

As you can kind of see, the bonnet bulge is all painted and on, it's bolted on and sealed, I actually made a bit of a mess with the masking on it and the position/shape of the sun but at first glance its not the worst. 

Got the blue steering wheel on! but im having issues with the horn so i'll try sort that this week.

Also picked up a Jaf grill badge and a monster tacho with shift light so there's some more work installing those, I'm also going to go super hard core cliche and get a train hang ring/tsurikawa and some form of ugly exhaust muffler.  If I can, I think I'd also like to find a ali mesh sun visor and oil cooler with lines but I think that's probably just wishful thinking.

So I managed to pick up another gearstick and grill the other night, got straight into putting the new gear stick in.

 

Is that a bulge in your bonnet or are you just happy to see another post?

Picked up a box of city parts a while back, included with the parts is a city turbo bonnet bulge.

Sanded down the bulge, I've decided I'd take it to the next level and really ruin the car by painting the bulge something terrible, you'll have to wait till I've done it thought before I tell you what I have planned.

drilled some mounting holes in the bonnet and the cut out a nice big hole in my bonnet(no going back now) so I can get to the inside the bulge so I can tighten up the nuts and bolts.