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Faking the classic/se30 curved screen

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spoonie1972

macrumors 6502a
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Aug 17, 2012
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I've seen the post on instructables (and i think that's awesome).

link here:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Upg...osh-to-run-OS-X-S/step3/A-replica-CRT-screen/

if i go with a super-thin lexan instead of the 6mm or 3mm the author is suggesting, do you think i'll have a superior result?

would i have to vaseline the back-side of the lexan to stop the lexan from sticking to the original monitor?

Has anyone else here done something similar?
 
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spoonie1972

macrumors 6502a
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Aug 17, 2012
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well i gave this a shot with clamps and a heat gun and the desired effect was...

pretty crappy.

i'll try again w/ a different product.
 
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spoonie1972

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Aug 17, 2012
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well, my screen finally showed up:

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8" at 4:3 is hilarious!

this is 800x600, but allegedly does something to fake 1024x768.

should be fun!

mobo etc still to be decided. might even just buy a mac mini.. but building is more fun, to be honest.
 
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spoonie1972

macrumors 6502a
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Aug 17, 2012
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roughed in. need to get some tint to hide some of the black mask used to round out the acrylic.

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spoonie1972

macrumors 6502a
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Aug 17, 2012
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not sure anyone cares, but here's the screen from the back.

i've test-wired the 12v display into a switching ATX power supply and it powers up into VGA mode, which is great!

going with a Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3 mobo, some GeForce 210 passive (no fan) card, a celeron 530 core processor (not fast, but not slow), and probably 4 gigs ram. it wont need more. unsure if i'll just set it and forget it at 10.6.8 or try something newer.

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GermanyChris

GermanyChris

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Here
spoonie1972 said:
not sure anyone cares, but here's the screen from the back.

i've test-wired the 12v display into a switching ATX power supply and it powers up into VGA mode, which is great!

going with a Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3 mobo, some GeForce 210 passive (no fan) card, a celeron 530 core processor (not fast, but not slow), and probably 4 gigs ram. it wont need more. unsure if i'll just set it and forget it at 10.6.8 or try something newer.

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This I like! You should post it on tonymac
 
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