finished tidying up the internals and mounted the back door: I had some noise on the video signal which turned out to be caused by the 12V psu for the amp and LED strips. Simply connecting a wire between the PSU negative and the monitor chassis solved this. (the black … Continue reading →

More pics than text because I’m on a short time span here Mounted the marquee LED strips: The lit result needs to become a bit more yellowish, hope I can achieve this by adding some yellowish vinyl behind the artwork. Mounted my amp on a piece of wood that is … Continue reading →

Spent some time on wiring the control panel today. Damn what a time consuming job Just reminds me why I do these projects for fun, not for commercial purposes. That would never pay of First of all the grounding harness: And fully wired: Didn’t solder the shift and power leds … Continue reading →

Yesterday I’ve picked up my artwork and apllied it. The clearview stickers look great behind the plexiglas and polystyrene:

After a well earned holiday I picked up my cabinet base last wednesday. In the meantime I’ve mounted my speakers and drilled the last two holes in the CP for the joysticks. Did a quick placement of all buttons etc. just to get an idea what it will look like. … Continue reading →

Glued the base together so it’s now ready for staining/painting.

I’ve put aside some of the other stuff I’m busy with atm and finally did some more work on my bartop. First of all because my admin panel is 41mm thick (2x18mm wood + 5mm top) I had to route down the backside of it so the happ buttons can … Continue reading →

It’s been a while because of the cold weather and I’ve been busy with all kinds of other stuff, but here’s a small update of the project. First of all I’ve mounted my speakers. After that I could measure how much room there was left between the marque and the … Continue reading →

Just routed my cp top. First I’ve done some testing since the polystyrene tends to melt and for those ever needing to route this material: Use a lower speed, work counterclockwise and move fast, that gives the best result. the pics are directly after routing, no sanding yet and the … Continue reading →

Finally after some drama: some success! After ruining my plexi twice I decided to go for polystyrene this time (they didn’t have thick enough lexan at the local hardware store). This tends to melt a bit faster so I had to drill a bit slower, but doesn’t crack as easy … Continue reading →

Yesterday I mounted the hinge panel and glued the cp to it: Unfortunately I did a slight miscalculation on the hinge point, not a major problem, but I wanted the cp to open up just a bit further than it does now, but yet again not too much because else … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since I posted an update, mainly due to the holidays and being busy with all kind of other stuff. Amongst which “Selling my motion sim”. But picked this up again today and started with making my cp hinge points. At first I wanted to use standard … Continue reading →

Not really an update, but more of a teaser of a routing template I’ve been working on an I hope will work out (need to get myself a new router bit first because the current one is quite blunt and good enough for routing the template, but not for the … Continue reading →

Since my speakers didn’t arrive yet I decided to do some other work and mounted my monitor today. Made 4 simple brackets to mount the monitor to the panel: Next I mounted 4 aluminum brackets for mounting the monitor panel to the cabinet. Found some nice brackets with slot holes … Continue reading →

Just finished taking apart the cab, rounding all edges and putting it back together: As you can see my plexi for the marquee arrived as well (for the cp as wel but nothing interesting about a square piece that needs work ). I’ve ardered 2 pieces, 4mm thick and 3mm … Continue reading →