Tonight, since I had a couple of hours to spare, I decided to finish up a few of the little jobs before the arcade comes into the house... Mounted the 6 point extension, and since the mounting for the monitor has all been finalised (for a long time now, just haven't gotten around to screwing it down) I've screwed it down, so now you could literally turn the arcade upside down and nothing would move! I've also painted the little bits that can be seen through the bezel, all that remains is artwork (in progress) and the actual computer that's going in it, which my friend will be bringing over soon with any luck.
Not very interesting pics, but just to show how things are mounted:
So, as you can see the monitor mount is now screwed down; same in all four corners. I've used the existing mounts that the former CRT went into when I built the mount for the monitor, it's basically an upside down U so I have access to everything from underneath if required, but it's as secure as the former monitor. I've also put two bars each side for the inner bezel to rest on just to make sure everything stays in place, these have now been painted black, as the edges could be seen through the smoked glass (can't even see them anymore!).
I've also done the plug sockets:
This means all that will be seen out of the back is the one white cable from the power box to the wall; at the moment as it's in the shed, I've blocked it up to stop any "critters" getting into the arcade, as I did find when I stripped it that some kind of critter (either a mouse or a rat) had been living in it; unfortunately the hole was quite big formerly, but I'll be fixing that this weekend and blanking it out to stop anything getting in since all the electronics are going in bit by bit now.
That's all for now, hopefully in the house this weekend... woo hoo!
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