The Monthly Challenge

I've spent most of today getting tools and hardware to start some legitimate work on my arcade cabinet, but I'm finding that almost everything is just a little bit off. It's incredibly frustrating, and i don't even know where to start. I guess it was kind of dumb to buy an old cabinet which had been customized to fit a particular board and monitor, and expect to just be able to "plug in" my own setup. Ugh...I should've just built this thing on my own from scratch.