Control panel hardware buttons

Looks Pro, but that's a lot of extra work and sheetmetal for the 'integrated' keyboard look.

If you're dead set on it, I think you could tidy it up by:

• Piano hinge across the front
• Curved, slotted locking tabs slide inside the main enclosure and some small thumbscrews to clamp it through the outside.

It's not just an "integrated look", The keyboard can be tucked completely out of the way and still be pecked at when necessary.

Definitely more work to make but it's already designed so I may as well make one or 2 even if it's not really feasible to make more. Cost of the sheetmetal is negligible, the keyboard and touchscreen are metal industrial units, a bit of extra steel and aluminum isn't much of a concern.

Not a fan of piano hinges which is why I did it this way. Recessing the brackets into the enclosure is a thought but the external hinges are easier to deal with.

Gotcha.

You just tell me what you want, and I'll make the torch go thereimage missing /media/kunena/emoticons/wink.png

Much appreciated, these things would definitely be too expensive to make without your help

Why not have the pivot piece as part of the keyboard holder?
Can you make the pivot piece sit on the inside? 

That can be done sure, but here's a couple of problems with that. Can you guess what they are? All that would just be for aesthetics so I don't really think it's worth the downsides.