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January 16, 2004
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Now its time to put together the bottom piece for the panel.
It needs wheels.
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I bought some 3” wheels (two swivel, two fixed) from Rona
(like a Home Depot in Canada, but a little closer). The two wheels
in the front are swivel with a lock, the two in the back are just
regular wheels.
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I had a piece of 24 x 24” 3/4 inch plywood left over from
another project and decided to use it to reinforce the wheels. I
liked the way it tied everything together, and giving the bottom a
little more weight.
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I attached the wheels with with 1/4 “ 2” carriage bolts,
lock washers and hex nuts.
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Here is a picture of the assembly from inside the cabinet. I
used lock washers and a hex nut to tie the Wheel though the MDF and
the Plywood. This allows for a very solid link.
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I also glued and screwed the plywood to the MDF…
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Here is a shot with all the carriage bolts installed ready for the
wheels... |
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Here is a picture of the wheels from the underside of the
cabinet with the wheels attached. Not too shab. This will enable me
to wheel this sucker around (it’s heavy!).
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Now it is time to build the monitor shelf….
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I based this design on the 24 hour cabinet guy. I still can’t
believe he did I all in 24 hours. Maybe I’m just slow (only me). I
assume he had help (i.e., more than one person building the cabinet…
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A simple frame made out of 1x2s and a pieces of 26 x 22 inch
framed and fashioned to a 26 x 22 piece of MDF.
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Remember, clamps are your friend... |
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Middle brace
part attached. This should make things a little more solid. |
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Here is a [picture of the dry fitted cabinet on
its new rollers. The rollers make a huge difference in moving the
cabinet. I was humming
of Pete Townsend's “I’m Going Mobile" as I was putting the cab
together.
After I was done dry fitting all the pieces, I
started gluing and affixing the framed 1x2s to the MDF cabinet.
I am having some problems with the marquee
bottom piece. After some second guessing, I decide to go ahead with
the steep angled cut (nearly 31 degrees…)
Till now, not a drop of glue has been used.
Now that everything is fitting nicely, its time to glue/secure all
the 1x2s to the MDF. Don’t kid yourself, this is a time consuming
process…
The way I attached the 1x2s to the MDF
originaly was from the inside out (i.e., drill into the 1x2 first
then into the MDF). Now I needed to reverse the process and clean
things up..
This work took at least 4 hours to complete.
I now had to reverse all the screws so the
head was coming in (MDF first, then 1x2). I proceeded to unscrew and
re-drill all the screws for each 1x2.
I'll let all pieces that were glued sit for
the night to dry now.
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January 17, 2004
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Did not get a whole lot done today. I installed
the monitor shelf and put a piano hinge on the back door.
Here is a picture of the monitor shelf installed…
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Another picture of the CAB Progress to to now with the
monitor shelf. 19" Monitor is going into the cab so the shelf will
need to be securely installed... |
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To do this, I placed a screw every three inches for
the length of the shelf. 8 to be exact. I might build a brace under
the shelf later on just to be doubly sure the shelf wont break. |
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Here is a picture of the back of the cabinet with the door added. I
used a 24" piano hinge to secure the two pieces. I have to trim 1/4"
off the door panel to account for the piano hinge. That's where a
table saw comes in real handy. |
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Here is a closer view view of the installation of the
piano hinge. I used tiny #6 screws 1/2 "). |
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January 20, 2004 |
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Not a lot done today. Mainly worked on the panel under the
marquee and started figuriung out how to install the coin door... |
| I decided to test out the cutting for the coin door on
an old piece of pegboard (only thing I had in my scrap wood bin). I
recommend you do this as well as it is a little tricky to layout the
cutting pattern. Here is the template |
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A nice tight fit. I will use this template tracing out the lines
for the front panel piece of the cab. |
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Had to get 1 more sheet of MDF from Home Depot. Last piece was
cut into 3 26x48” pieces, to be used for inside width cuts.
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This time asked cutting guy (Jason) to cut 8 x 4 in 3 26’’ x 48
pieces. Made sure they were exactly 26”.
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Maybe we’ll use the leftovers for Glenn’s cabinet if he decides
to build one.
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Cut the remaining back pieces. Many of the pieces required 45
degree cuts. This was somewhat tricky but turned out great!
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Here is a picrture of the cabinet on its front time. I am in
the process of cutting the angled cit on the cabinet back. Two drills
makes for shorter work, I’ll say…
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