One thing I should add if you go the tilt-up route: work out the geometry before you start cutting/drilling anything. Unfortunately I haven't worked out the exact engineering for it so I can't point you to a diagram, but if I were working with a salvaged cab like you are, I'd try to reverse-engineer the playfield mounting that's already in place and try to duplicate it for the TV. I'd instead try to work something out more like the regular playfield pivots. That works, but I wouldn't do it quite the same way again. The front of the frame then rests on a couple of blocks attached to the sides of the cabinet near the front. I then attached some ordinary door hinges to the back of the frame, and attached the other end of the hinges to a 2x4 that runs across the cabinet at the proper position to hold up the back of the TV. On my own cabinet, I mounted the TV on a simple wood frame I custom built out of 2x2's. I like designs that do the same thing with the TV, so that you don't have to remove the TV or even disconnect it to access the cab interior. I'm sure you're aware from working with a real cabinet yourself that the real machines have the playfield on a pivot that lets you tilt it up to access the interior of the cabinet. I'm very much in favor of any kind of design that ends up with something like the way real pinball machines work. Everyone comes up with their own ad hoc solution. It's one of the big engineering tasks in building a cab that no one has reduced to a science yet.
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