I had to start somewhere - so I started at the bottom and planned on building up from there - using the bottom as the reference. I purchased some large wheels from Lowes. They seemed to have the better choice compared to home depot. I picked up some wood out of a trash can. It was nice and solid and was probably part of a crate. Perfect for using as a base for an arcade machine! I used some screws I had already. The bolts are from homo depot and cost almost as much as the wheels!
I picked up a post from home depot for about $1 or 50 cents. It was in the 'off cuts' section. I cut it into stunts to use as feet for the machine.
I rounded off the square post with my router to make it look a little nicer.
As this base was to take the weight of the whole machine - I made the base quite strong.
Here are the two panels. Notice I put the imperfect side with wood knots on the inside of the machine. The nice side is on the outside. The idea is to not screw anything through the side panels. Thus I will screw blocks of wood to hold all the front/back panels in place.
Side by side they seemed to be quite the same...
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