Friday, January 12, 2007

This is where it all starts...

Welcome to my blog!

This will chronicle the adventures I have in building my first MAME cab. I'm starting by building a bartop cab first, since these are the smallest...and should be the cheapest - and hopefully easiest - to build. If all goes well...and not too over budget...I'm sure other cabs will follow.

Let's get to it.

I kinda started in a strange place...I had a pair of old speakers laying around...so I decided that they would be the first victims in my attempt to build some fun.

There were no screws holding it together, and I didn't notice any clips or such that would make it easily pop apart.



So, with a little help from my trusty friend, Mr. Screwdriver (you can see him in the pic), I was able to crack it open. Turns out it did have some tabs, but they were glued into a slot on the other half of the speakers.



Anyway, after yanking out what I need, I gained two 3" speakers and a PCB with a volume knob already attached in a way that I think can easily be used with little to no modification. He shoots, he scores!


I'll need to borrow a bigger car to pick up my MDF...that'll come in a day or two. Then the real fun begins!

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