{"id":411,"date":"2007-11-10T22:11:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T05:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2007-11-10T22:12:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T05:12:03","slug":"building-a-mame-cabinet-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Building a MAME cabinet 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another weekend, and more cabinet work. Staining and varnishing I&#8217;m still putting off until I have all the woodworking done. In the week, I picked up some Lexan from Home Depot and today I finished the control panel. First, I routed the area for the trackball mounting plate, since I want to lay the Lexan on top, and I sunk some holes for the bolts that will hold the joysticks in place. Then I cut the Lexan and clamped it to the CP, ready to transfer the required holes. I&#8217;m impressed with Lexan &#8211; it&#8217;s very easy to work with. I used some sacrificial wood on the bottom for the button hole drills and trackball area routing. I feared the trackball hole would be the trickiest part, but in the end it was easy &#8211; I fitted the mounting plate, routed the rough hole, then used a sanding bit on my drill to work towards the plate. Anyway, here are some pictures:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88319047@N00\/1958991299\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2190\/1958991299_27e6daedbb.jpg\" alt=\"Control Panel after routing for the trackball mounting plate\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88319047@N00\/1959826010\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2333\/1959826010_57424507b8.jpg\" alt=\"Lexan CP top complete\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having finished the CP, I turned my attention to the keyboard tray, and routed my planned groove for the super-slim Apple keyboard to make it <em>insanely<\/em> low profile. Here it is: designed by Apple, and Elbeno, in California.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88319047@N00\/1959828770\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2404\/1959828770_4aebb834c2.jpg\" alt=\"Keyboard tray routing\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88319047@N00\/1959006821\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2045\/1959006821_09d70b8844.jpg\" alt=\"Keyboard fitted to tray\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another weekend, and more cabinet work. Staining and varnishing I&#8217;m still putting off until I have all the woodworking done. In the week, I picked up some Lexan from Home Depot and today I finished the control panel. First, I routed the area for the trackball mounting plate, since I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}