12v Cooling Fans Installed Top (Left) and Bottom (Right)
Marquee Light also Installed (visible in left photo)

Marquee Printed - sorry about the blurriness, too lazy to go in and get the tripod ; )
The pix don't do the marquee justice, lights up very nicely.

Controls panels, cut and routed, my wife wasn't too happy with
me practicing with the router on her kitchen cabinets first ; )

Ya know, I (along with a few trees) really wish 1UP
had put up his plans for these darn things ;)

Ah yes, the roller latches - the bottom one is in place,
the top one still needs screwed into place.

Panel 1 & Panel 2 installed - Woo Hoo!

Looking at the inside of the two attached panels

Panel 3 Installed...and it spins! Maybe this thing will work ; )

I did paint the back of the cabinet black.
Two reasons: 1, cheaper than laminate and 2, more authentic looking

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Panel 3 has a piano hinge to allow me entry into the "wiring nightmare." Picture on right shows Panel 3 flipped up.

I also installed a steel retaining rod on panel #3. When fed through the holes in the control side panels and fed through clamps attached to ther bottom of Panel #3 stops the panel fron flipping open when it is underneath - that is, when using Panel 1 or Panel 2 for gaming. I can easily remove this rod when I need access to inside the panels by rotating the panels up and pulling the rod out. Did that make any sense???

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"Backsplash" installed (flipped down on left & up on right)
This allows the rotation of control panels without de-capitating the joysticks.

This will contain 1 & 2 player buttons plus Escape and Insert Coin (Illuminated push buttons)
By placing them on here - I don't have to add these buttons to each panel.

Monitor bezel trimmed and installed.
Using silver alluminum J-Molding track on bottom for bezel and plexi front to secure.

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Whew! Heavy Heavy Heavy! But.... it's in = )
It took a few tries to get the measurements precise so the bezel would fit, etc. etc.

Some of the "finishing" work - click on an image to view a larger version

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Laminate is complete, Coin Door is installed.
Click on Pix to see larger image.

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Control Panel #1 (2 Eight way and 1 Four way)

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Control Panel #2 (Spinner, Trackball, Tron style joystick will replace the Super on the right)

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Ahhh, yes, the cable jungle (yes, I will be tidying this up)

Trackball Glowing via LED

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All the LEDs for the cab are in place and working. 4 Illuminated Pushbuttons on backsplash, 2 behind coin door return switches. Pix doesn't really do it justice, I work on lighting and better pix to post. One more joystick (the trigger Tron stick) to go and I can fire this puppy up and see if it works!

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Ok, been re-doing the wiring jungle. Looks alot neater and is easier to close the panels without worrying about wires tangling up into the rotary "stuff" (spinner, joysticks) or smashing the trackball led into the base of the TB. Also, here's a couple pix of my trigger stick hack.

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The bottom pic of the coin door lights - using the default yellow plastic buttons from Happ; but, by using the 4 bulb wedge base leds from SuperBrightLeds.com, I am able to keep my green theme going.