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Here we go again my 2nd cab project


monkeychunkuk

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Todays gum tree gold

So i needed power supplies for 2 cabs i

Hit amazon and found the one i bought for the retrocade £12 each before i hit the buy button i checked gum tree and found this advert

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Basically if they had working psu i would be paying £10 for some extra bits

I threw him a email and asked if he still had them and would he take £20 and emailed back said yup he would as he wanted it cleared

This is what i got

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He kept the software cds and manuals for everything

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After i stripped it down, the 15 inch monitor will make a great 1 player mini bartop

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Left over bits

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Great little amp for one of the cabs

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I plugged in both machines they booted but did not output a picture i have both manuals so i can have a read

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So busy building again today

Bought me wood

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This nice man cut it

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My cut stuff

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Then i cut the sides and sanded them smooth both side ready for vinyl

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Then applied the vinyl the bottom one got Scratched ; (

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Then i built them up again

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More updates

4 x lights wired and fitted to backing plate

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3x hinges and doors fitted,3x top panel fitted,3x mobo shelves fitted,4 speaker mounts drilled ready to fit,2x monitors mounts cut and ready to fit

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I think they're breeding! I bet there'll be one more when you open the door in the morning ...

Reminds me of the Star Trek episode 'Trouble with Tribbles' with mister Shatner ...

Impressively quick work and the shape's none too shabby either. Great stuff monkey.

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lol, perhaps you should get the title changed to "2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th cab projects"

i know i didnt think i would build this many,im also thinking of using a laptop to build a minecraft only bartop

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Man I got to the last page after reading through all of that and got so bummed when there weren't more pictures to look at. Good work man.

Thank you ill keep you updated

Today i bought Another box of bits from gum tree

1x working laptop novatech

1x Laptop need attention

3x 160gb hard drives

4x laptop hard drives

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£40

The hard drive are for the cabs

But I wanted the laptop as im going to make it into a standalone minecraft arcade bartop

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Maybe best gum tree find

The perfect machine for the tron cab

Intel Pentium 4 Desktop PC - Custom build

Asus P5LD2 Mainboard with Realtec HD Audio (digital/analogue outputs), Ethernet, USBx6, parallel, serial ports

Intel P4 HT 3GHz processor

2GB RAM

190GB SATA 3.5" Hard Drive

Nvidia Geforce 210 with VGA, DVI and HDMI

DVD-ROM Drive

DVD-RW Drive

3.5" Floppy Drive

Hyper PSU

Allso included:

Logitech LX710 Wireless Keyboard and Laser mouse

£30

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I may leave this one its case

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I wonder this would look cool on the front with some blue lights behind

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You must live in a really good area for Gum tree. There's only a few computer parts advertised around here and they're asking ridiculous prices for them.

Maybe I'll have to spread my net wider.

Steve

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3 set up but not running anywhere close to what i need them to do, i need to install graphic drivers etc and i need two monitors and 1 good pc to finish

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Order the t moulding cutter and enough to finish a couple of machines be my first time fitting it so im a little worried

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They seem to be shaping up nice now buddy great work, you inspired me to build a cabinet for my daughter similar to your design, where you based in uk

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These are looking great! I wish I had that much free time to build so many. Its taking me months to do a simple bartop.

One question how are you powering the monitors? Are you powering them from the mains for directly from the computers PSU?

Also how about making a light gun cabinet :D cant have enough time crisis.

Plus you have amazing gum tree skills I only seem to find junk that costs the earth on there.

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These are looking great! I wish I had that much free time to build so many. Its taking me months to do a simple bartop.

One question how are you powering the monitors? Are you powering them from the mains for directly from the computers PSU?

Also how about making a light gun cabinet :D cant have enough time crisis.

Plus you have amazing gum tree skills I only seem to find junk that costs the earth on there.

Cheers

Im in south of the uk a few miles from bognor regis

Dont worry everyones project have different paces we will all get to the same end goal

The monitors/psu/marquee light/speakers will all be plugged into a power strip/4 way socket not the greatest of looking things but great for fault finding if something goes wrong it will be protected by its own fuse without risking the other components

Woo a light gun game machine would be great!

Gum tree has been a hit and miss 80% off the stuff i bought i can use the rest is just spare parts i cant use or sell ( i have 9 cd roms)

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Little progress today,for the first time i cut slot for the T-molding

All machines are ready for t molding

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Fitted T molding on one machine

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Its chrome not blue BtW

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To my stupidity i didn't think there would be this much dust

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And like all thing my first attempt didn't turn out great when i slipped whoops

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I also sprayed up 3 speakers grills with unders coats

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And i also picked 3 monitors from gumtree as the one i had were not great

For £25

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Now they all have monitors

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I was really shocked but how much their was ; )

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It's not so much the mess it's the reaction of her indoors.. Who goes turbo at the amount of carnage you have created.. :P

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