New TV!

Hopefully this one will actually work.

And the painting is done (again)!

I really hope so anyways! I put the last coat on the cabinet the other day, so now I just need the paint to cure. I also painted the control panel; I only had to put one more coat of paint on the top, because I decided to put a piece of polycarbonate (Lexan) on the top to protect it. I came to this decision because I wasn't sure how I wanted to not only make it easy to clean since it is white after all, but also make it durable enough to withstand the constant rubbing/touching that might make the paint wear through to the MDF. The problem I have been running into is that the only size big enough for the control panel is 36" x 48"! I can probably use the extra for the bezel for the TV, but it's pretty flexible, so I'm not sure how well that will work.

MAME Cabinet Status Update

Last Friday, we started to clean out the shop to make room for a new tablesaw and get rid of all the sawdust so I could paint the MAME cabinet. We finally finished cleaning it yesterday, and I put the first coat of new paint on the cabinet today. A lot of the paint soaked in, but it shouldn't take too many more coats.

Look, it has paint!

This time I am using an oil-based enamel for all of the coats, so it will be a lot tougher, but it takes 24 hours between coats. I need more paint anyway, so I will go to Home Depot to get more paint while it dries tomorrow, and add another coat at 2:00.