Plans For Building A Mame Cabinet

I include a great many photos of the construction process to assist even a complete novice builder.

Plans for building a mame cabinet.

I decided on a 25 1 2 width based loosely on the measurements from build a mame cabinet in 24 hours. With that in mind picking what style of cabinet you want to build for your mame machine is one of the toughest and most important decisions you ll have to make. Using mame building a mame cabinet. I hope this helps you with your goal of building your own mame cabinet.

The plans for the cabinet were loosely based upon lusid s work but with modifications to the dimensions and control panel. I thought i would post my progress and such. Although exactly what your. I could have saved myself a lot of time and effort there instead of attempting to build one myself.

For the lazy in all of us the easiest way is to just go to ebay and buy a pre assembled mame machine for around 2 300. Any time i start a new project i always love going out and doing research. But it was still quite expensive and i wouldn t have had the same satisfaction that i know i m going to get after building my own cabinet. I saw a mame cabinet on ebay a few months and i very nearly bought it.

A small hand miter saw was needed to do the molding. There are two ways to own your own mame arcade cabinet. Also below is a pdf file that will help y. A huge win was discovering the build your own arcade controls website dedicated to people who had already built mame cabinets and resources with how to find anything you need to make your own cabinet.

As we weren t using the same wood thickness as was mentioned in the plan it really just served as a guide to ensure that the machine looked correct once assembled. The cabinet was completed in the garage using only a circular saw a 15 jigsaw from kmart a 15 hand sander and a drill. Build one or buy one. I spent hundreds of hours looking at all of the websites absorbing all the information i could and considering a.

This is a semi full tutorial that will break down each piece of building a cabinet. Needless to say i m pretty happy with the way it turned out. This document was created to provide individuals with an easy to print paper copy to work from.