How to Build a Television Cabinet
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This is how I went about making the TV cabinet from some cheap non-structural pine
and some pallet wood. |
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This is what the mounted TV cabinet
looks like finished. |
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Side access door to get to all the wires
for the TV and the speakers, and it also holds the DVD player. |
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I started by running a length of
timber at 45º |
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and then I moved on to a simple frame,
keeping everything level as I go. |
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These two chocks get attached at the
top and the bottom |
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to keep both of my vertical pieces
evenly spaced. |
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For this piece that sits up against the wall,
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I set my circular saw at 45º and run it down the length of the piece of timber.
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I attached a support piece to
keep everything square and solid. |
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I marked and cut out a channel for where the plastic strip in the ceiling sits.
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I make several cuts,
just moving the speed square up a little bit each time. |
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And then I got some help chiselling it out.
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Just a bit of a look to see how the frame is coming together.
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Then I moved on to making
the bracket for the TV. |
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I used a piece of angle iron
and flat bar, |
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drilled some holes,
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and then welded it together.
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Center the television into the frame.
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Moving onto the speakers.
I just built a simple box for them out of pallet palings. |
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For the frames around the speaker,
I made a paper template and then traced that on |
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Drilled a few holes to fit
the jigsaw blade down |
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and then roughly cut out the center.
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I cleaned everything up
with the trim router |
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I used some off cut black shade-cloth
for behind the frame |
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and attached it with contact adhesive.
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After it dried I then cut off the excess.
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The base speaker has a 22mm thick MDF, so I attached the palings straight in to that.
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I made a cardboard template and transferred those lines on to the palings.
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cut it out with the jigsaw and then smoothed it up with the 80 grit flappy disc on the angle grinder.
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I used the flappy disc to smooth out the larger rough spots on the palings.
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and then moved to the 120 grit on the sander.
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Gave it a quick coat of stain
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then attached all the palings.
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For the hinge up door,
I attached some backing strips which are just some trimmed down pallet palings. |
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I then put on two little latches
and added a handle. |
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For the bass speaker side,
I cut my angles at 22.5º and for the TV side I cut those angles at 45º. |
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Now to cover in the front face.
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The frame corners are cut at 45º angles.
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The back of the frame is dodgy looking,
but strong. ( I was so over this build ). |
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I grinded out this channel because the TV protrudes a bit along the front edge.
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And then I gave it a coat of paint.
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I attached the frame around the TV.
And then I also covered the sides of the cabinet. |
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And it is done.
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