Windscreen

Having cable-clipped the wireless receivers and USB hub to the inside shelf under the coin door to stop them falling into the bottom of the cabinet, and fiddled about trying to screw the keyboard encoder in (turns out partially knocking in a nail and removing it is a good way to create enough of a pilot hole to get a self-tapping screw in) it was time to go for gold - the last remaining major component - the windscreen.


I measured up my A3 piece of blach card and found that it was an inch wanting on all sides. Ho hum. At least it was only 75p. I decded to do a practice run with it anyway and used 2 by 4 and a glass pot from a Gu pud to get the straight edges and rounded corners respectively. I then used my new stanley knife to cut out the centre and voila, one bezel.

Back to the shed and I don't know how I mis-measured it but it was a dead loss! Never mind. I ditched it and decided to put the glass on, at least temporarily. Havind impatiently already fitted the mirror, and with the machine running, I did my best to trap sawdust as I piloted the screw holes.

I almost suceeded and blew the rest away with a few huffs and puffs. After another glass-cleaning session, I had to flip the windscreen round to every possible orientation in order to find the one that matched the drill holes.

Finally, in with the screws. One was scraping against the glass so I filed the hole sideways with the drill and got the screw into a decent positon. Job done.

I now had, but for a bezel and a few items on the snagging list, the arcade machine I have been working to build for 18 months. Whew.