Sega Mini Cab Conversions

[FrancoB]

Personally I think you're mad to sell your NAC btw. These mini cabs are nice, but I rapidly decided that mine was simply not comfortable enough to keep as my main cab. I also felt like a total pillock playing it, as you have to straddle the cab with your legs either side

I've still got the Naomi and Pony as full size cabs. These are just a fun project more than anything else.

It doesn't look like the NAC is going anywhere fast at the moment though

They are deffo 1P cabs only IMO. It's nearly impossible to get 2 joysticks and more than two buttons per player on the CP in any kind of decent configuration even without having two people cramped around one cab.

you have to straddle the cab with your legs either side

Thats the best part of playing on a mini cab, makes me feel all sexeh.

I must say I did enjoy straddling them whilst 'test playing' them (pew pew noises and all)

[TadCool]

You guys have way to long and sexy legs...

[gargoyle67]

Surely with the size of these cabs your not thinking of making them 2 player ?

[FrancoB]

They are deffo 1P cabs only IMO.

[gargoyle67]

[crunchywasp]

you have to straddle the cab with your legs either side

Thats the best part of playing on a mini cab, makes me feel all sexeh.

I must say I did enjoy straddling them whilst 'test playing' them (pew pew noises and all)

pew pew noises

[FrancoB]

Yay, Spring. About **** time!

Back to work......

Next up was modding the white plastic front of the cab with the rotating monitor so that the bezel can be mounted vertically.

Here's the bezel in the horizontal position. As you can see it sits in a slight recess and it screws to the plastic front with M4 countersunk screws:



I had a few ideas about how to mount the bezel vertically but I went with the easiest in the end. I calculated the area of material that needed to be removed and marked the plastic front. The thick lines are there just to remind me which sections I'm removing as its easy to make a mistake when there's plastic shavings flying everywhere:



To route it I just used some scrap pieces of acrylic as straight edges and stuck them to the plastic front using double sided tape. Then it's just a case of carefully routing the excess material off and then using the bearing on the flush trim bit to follow the straight edges.





I did the same think for the bottom corners but I hacksawed most of the material away first:



Centre drilled and drilled some 4mm holes to bolt though, job done:



Test fit



Both cabs together for reference:



The only downside to the simple method of mounting the bezel I chose is that it sits proud of the recess 1mm. It's not a major problem though and you'll not see it anyway once the front plastics are on.

I'll make two front plastics for the rotating cab, one with a horizontal shape cut out of the graphics and one with a vertical shape cut out and I'll just swap them over when rotating the monitor.

[CPS2]

Plastic fantastic...

Can't wait to see these finished. Nice work Franco.

[emphatic]

Very clean, buddy!

[crunchywasp]

Skillz

[andygeezer]

Splendid.

Any love for Dino Kings cabs - rumour mill tells me 20 or so are on the horizion - not sure if they'll be coming my way though..

[CPS2]

Splendid.

Any love for Dino Kings cabs - rumour mill tells me 20 or so are on the horizion - not sure if they'll be coming my way though..

Is it true that Sega have stopped producing keys for them now?

[Stevearcade]

These look great Franco. Very interesting.

[Bababaloo]

Just fantastic work

[FrancoB]

Cheers dudes

I can't wait to get them done or at least playable! I've got a lot of plastics etc work to do for others but I'm going to have to at least work on my stuff too 50:50 or I'll end up working for another year and getting nothing done for myself.

Splendid.

Any love for Dino Kings cabs - rumour mill tells me 20 or so are on the horizion - not sure if they'll be coming my way though..

Is it true that Sega have stopped producing keys for them now?

Fingers crossed geez

Speaking of keys, am I right in thinking you got some keys/locks for these? I'm going to need full sets for both of mine from somewhere.

Next thing I want to do is get the speakers sorted as these will affect the front plastics which I want to get sorted next.

This is the speaker mount from one of the cabs:





They both have a single rectangular speaker in the top of the cab above the monitor and a 4" or so round one in the front door. I'm thinking of putting two rectanular ones in above the monitor for dual JAMMA mono and stereo for the boards that support it. Possibly thinking of putting a small sub in the front door unless it rattles the cab to bits.

For the rectangular ones I've seen [these] that I'm thinking might be suitable? They're shielded and are rated at 10W 8Ohms. I'm guessing I should be able to run them from a little amp inside the cab?

[moh]

wow, they turned out looking so beautiful

wish I had your skills

[o1s1n]

These look absolutely amazing. Stellar work

[opt2not]

Good job Franco! Clean work as always!

[gargoyle67]

1st refusal if you decide to sell one

[wonderbanana]

Amazing work Franco, you are an artiste Sir!