Monitor Fitting Continues

Spent some time looking at the monitor and how it could be modified to fit in the cabinet properly. Using a couple 1.5" wide pieces of scrap wood as spacers, I was able to mount further forward in its monitor cavity so that it's nearly flush with the MDF bezel spacer.

With the extra space, I had the the electronics (neck board), inside the aluminum monitor cage clear, but still there was about another inch and a half of aluminum cage still sticking out too far. Time for the cutters!



First, I removed the rear panel of the cage which came off by bending back a few metal fingers. In this picutre, I am (possibly unwisely) cutting the metal shielding cage around the neck of the monitor. The two lines shows the difference between mounting the monitor with and without the spacers.



There were two grounding wires running from the back of the cage to the neckboard that I will reattach to the remaining cage. With the cutting complete, the monitor now fits nicely in the cabinet.

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The next step is to pull the monitor back out and build out those spacers a little better and secure them to the frame. Perhaps a little reinforcing is needed too. I'll mock up some support brackets for the rear of the monitor when I work on this next.

Next steps:

• Mock up rear monitor support mounts
  
• Remove monitor and store away during painting & wood repair phase
• Reinforce the monitor frame and screw down frame spacers
• Strip out all electronics, wires, & hardware
• Build Control Panel box