15 hours later....

DPtwiz

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ahhh nintendo goodness. One DK jr had to be sacrificed so many more can live.... started on this at 8am today, and just finished. Who knew inside a nintendo cabinet the wood thicknesses are : 3/4, 9/16, 1/2, 3/8, and 1/4" no joke. 5 different wood thicknesses. I didn't take pics of 2 of them, because there are only a few pieces, mostly squares. Oh, and the part underneath the bezel, is 1 3/8" laminated MDF to boot. Franklin's Robotrons are all cut out, starting on Killercades Nintendo cabs tomorrow morning...

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I'm surprised the dimensions aren't in mm. Everything else is in the cabinet is and I would of thought that it would be pretty hard to find wood in inches overseas.
 
"15 Hours Later"

Wait isn't that one of those new zombie movies? :D

(also loved the Spongebob plug- we say that all the time in my house bc my daughter watches it 24-7)
 
If it were me I'd ask the customer what game they plan on implanting because I'd personally not want you popping all the extra holes in the side of the cabinet if I weren't planning on using a horizontal game. My .02

I firmly believe and have said this several times, we all need to realize there's not a shortage of PCB's but rather a shortage of the original cabinets to put PCB's into. I feel it's arguably safe to say Nintendo cabinets aren't in short supply but there are plenty of other cabinets that are. Good to see you doing this wiz.
 
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yep coinbox is there. Yep, i measured it out in inches, but damn near every measurement ends in /32 /64th i am pretty peticular on that. Plywood does not run the size it's advertised. 5/8ths plywood measures 1/64th larger than 9/16ths thickness, so it's the best possible match. I am going to measure the holes on Johns dedicated popeye and make corrected sides, so both styles will be available. I had 5 nintendo cabs ordered, so that's why i made them. I have other cool stuff coming, EDOT, Quantum, Cliffhanger, I,robot etc..
 
yep coinbox is there. Yep, i measured it out in inches, but damn near every measurement ends in /32 /64th i am pretty peticular on that. Plywood does not run the size it's advertised. 5/8ths plywood measures 1/64th larger than 9/16ths thickness, so it's the best possible match. I am going to measure the holes on Johns dedicated popeye and make corrected sides, so both styles will be available. I had 5 nintendo cabs ordered, so that's why i made them. I have other cool stuff coming, EDOT, Quantum, Cliffhanger, I,robot etc..

Oh how I love VCarve so much!! :D

What methods are you using to translate arc positions from your measurements to your drawings? I have one hell of a time drawing accurate parts in VCarve, since the measuring tool sucks so hard. Have you ever used Sketchup, export dxf, into vcarve, then tool paths?
 
well, partworks is what came with mine. I draw the straight lines in, then connect vectors with a curve option. That works 90% of the time, then i cut out a sample, clamp it to the game side, and tweak anything that is off. Generally, i have 2 - 3 things off, and usually by less that 3/32. i got nintendo very close on the first try, and already corrected what wasnt. i had to measure some angles for the sweeping curve below the CP and made a 1/16 line and did the close vector with a curve and got it the first time.

As far as making plans available, i am talking with Jpopson on klov about a material he can cut with his plotter, so i can make 1:1 scale parts in a posterboard style material, then all you would have to do is trace it onto your sheets of wood, with a plan to show placement.
 
Making plans available

well, partworks is what came with mine. I draw the straight lines in, then connect vectors with a curve option. That works 90% of the time, then i cut out a sample, clamp it to the game side, and tweak anything that is off. Generally, i have 2 - 3 things off, and usually by less that 3/32. i got nintendo very close on the first try, and already corrected what wasnt. i had to measure some angles for the sweeping curve below the CP and made a 1/16 line and did the close vector with a curve and got it the first time.

As far as making plans available, i am talking with Jpopson on klov about a material he can cut with his plotter, so i can make 1:1 scale parts in a posterboard style material, then all you would have to do is trace it onto your sheets of wood, with a plan to show placement.


Not sure if this could be done or even if you would want to. Any thoughts on selling the CNC file of a particular cab so one could take it to a shop and have the pieces cut locally?
Thanks,
Rich
 
i have kicked that around but unsure of it. I was really looking for a Klov member that was at least a few states away from me to do cnc cabs, that either had a setup or could purchase one, and sell cab files, or something sililar, but no takers.
 
well, partworks is what came with mine. I draw the straight lines in, then connect vectors with a curve option. That works 90% of the time, then i cut out a sample, clamp it to the game side, and tweak anything that is off. Generally, i have 2 - 3 things off, and usually by less that 3/32. i got nintendo very close on the first try, and already corrected what wasnt. i had to measure some angles for the sweeping curve below the CP and made a 1/16 line and did the close vector with a curve and got it the first time.

As far as making plans available, i am talking with Jpopson on klov about a material he can cut with his plotter, so i can make 1:1 scale parts in a posterboard style material, then all you would have to do is trace it onto your sheets of wood, with a plan to show placement.

Ah yes, Partworks is just a re-labeled copy of Vectric VCarve for shopbot machines; same program :) But alas, your method is a tried and true way to make accurate duplicates.

i have kicked that around but unsure of it. I was really looking for a Klov member that was at least a few states away from me to do cnc cabs, that either had a setup or could purchase one, and sell cab files, or something sililar, but no takers.

I was pondering asking you about this too, but I don't have the free time currently to be producing and building cabinets. Maybe in the summer I could start producing some for the Canadian market.

Not sure if this could be done or even if you would want to. Any thoughts on selling the CNC file of a particular cab so one could take it to a shop and have the pieces cut locally?
Thanks,
Rich

From my experience before owning my own machine, a lot of shops will outright turn you away if you're bringing your own files and have no cnc experience. Each 'cut file', has to be setup differently for each machine, what tooling they have (ie; DPtwiz using a 1/4" bit to cut the outside profile, where the shop you goto might use 5/16" diamond compression bits for cutout), which then leads into a lot of setup time, and reworking the cut file.
 
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