The box is simply glued over the top and a long arm micro switch detects the coin 'insertion' while also providing enough spring force to make the coin pop out of the slot. I also cut a corresponding slot in the front of the cabinet and secured the shaft in place using three screws. The shaft that the coin rotates on is part of the slide mechanism from an old CD-ROM drive that I cut to length. To shorten the box I cut a section out and re-glued it with epoxy and cut another hole slightly larger than the coin. The box for the mechanism was a CD-ROM drive bay blank from an old computer. You can push the coin into the slot to insert a coin but when you release it the coin pops back out again. I liked the idea so I built a simple coin mechanism by drilling a hole in a 'novelty' 20 cent coin and mounted it on a shaft so that it sticks out of the coin slot. While showing the cabinet to a friend he said that it would be nice to be able to insert a real coin rather than having a simple credit button. That I could then use them to attach the other panels to the cabinet. These pieces were inset 8mm from the outside edge so I glued and nailed some pieces of 2cm xĤcm (3/4' x 1 & 5/8') wood on the inside of the

These would allow me readyĪccess to the inside of the cabinet while the remaining panels wouldīe fixed in place to give it strength. Underneath and at the rear of the cabinet. Removable panels that would be held in place with screws on top, Screen/laptop inside the cabinet and so I decided to make three 1/3') plywood.Īt this stage I hadn't decided how I was going to mount the 2'2') (see the plan below but note that it is not drawn to scale). The side-profile I chose is similar to the top of an Armor Attack cabinet with an overall width of 45cm (approx. I also wanted a decent sized marquee and an overall look like the top of a stand-alone arcade machine. The cabinet is powered by an old Toshiba Satellite A40 laptop so the cabinet needed to be wide enough to fit the laptop inside with a few devices still connected via the USB slots located on one side of the machine.

Tank force arcade marquee