MyztikJenz
Beginner
Wasn't sure where to ask this, apologies if I'm in the wrong forum.
I'm attempting to build my own candy cab-like cabinet, complete with rotatable 25" monitor. I've been using the Q25 as a model and for the most part, it's been super helpful and not impossible to discern ways to make this work based on what I've been able to see from the few videos/photos of these things that are online. However, I've run into a bit of a roadblock: I can't reason how the front cover lid does what it does. My attempts to replicate always end up with the bottom corner of my lid running into the housing of the cab.
Some pictures will help. This the side of my cab currently (I've yet to cut the sides of the cover, because of this problem). The red lines are the bare minimum the cover needs to clear to allow the lazy susan on the inside to rotate. The white lines are my speculative cut lines and the green are 2" from the top and bottom edges of the front of the cab:
https://imgur.com/MoLiD44
I've been trying to find the right pivot with a template that I hang off the side. I've found that unless I'm at some pretty severe pivot really deep in the cab (where the top of the cover wouldn't clear), I always run into some variation of this:
https://imgur.com/v4tOGh5
where the bottom corner will run into the housing of the cab. I also know that cutting the wood will leave some additional space (I do expect some amount of gap, probably 5mm or so) but that's not going to be enough.
What I could use are better videos of how this mechanism works. Or if someone's in the Bay Area who happens to have one of these who'd let me study it for a while, that'd be optimal... but I recognize that as a long shot. I'd also appreciate someone giving me hints on what keywords to search for that describe this problem. I'm not a mechanical engineer or terribly good at woodworking so I'm guessing there's some way to describe the problem that isn't "the bottom angle doesn't clear the housing". My kid's 8th grade geometry has been helping a lot on this thing, but I'm afraid even that has its limits.
I'm attempting to build my own candy cab-like cabinet, complete with rotatable 25" monitor. I've been using the Q25 as a model and for the most part, it's been super helpful and not impossible to discern ways to make this work based on what I've been able to see from the few videos/photos of these things that are online. However, I've run into a bit of a roadblock: I can't reason how the front cover lid does what it does. My attempts to replicate always end up with the bottom corner of my lid running into the housing of the cab.
Some pictures will help. This the side of my cab currently (I've yet to cut the sides of the cover, because of this problem). The red lines are the bare minimum the cover needs to clear to allow the lazy susan on the inside to rotate. The white lines are my speculative cut lines and the green are 2" from the top and bottom edges of the front of the cab:
https://imgur.com/MoLiD44
I've been trying to find the right pivot with a template that I hang off the side. I've found that unless I'm at some pretty severe pivot really deep in the cab (where the top of the cover wouldn't clear), I always run into some variation of this:
https://imgur.com/v4tOGh5
where the bottom corner will run into the housing of the cab. I also know that cutting the wood will leave some additional space (I do expect some amount of gap, probably 5mm or so) but that's not going to be enough.
What I could use are better videos of how this mechanism works. Or if someone's in the Bay Area who happens to have one of these who'd let me study it for a while, that'd be optimal... but I recognize that as a long shot. I'd also appreciate someone giving me hints on what keywords to search for that describe this problem. I'm not a mechanical engineer or terribly good at woodworking so I'm guessing there's some way to describe the problem that isn't "the bottom angle doesn't clear the housing". My kid's 8th grade geometry has been helping a lot on this thing, but I'm afraid even that has its limits.
