Re: Interchangeable control tops


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Posted by TaskMaster on 12, 2001 at 11:26 AM:

In Reply to: Interchangeable control tops posted by Jonathan the Red on 11, 2001 at 7:37 PM:

: I asked this once before several months ago, but didn't really get an answer that I liked, so I thought I'd try it again :)

: I want to design my control box so the control top can be interchangeable. I'd like to be able to have a control top for general purposes, and another one with flight sticks, and another one with steering wheels, and so forth. I'm having trouble with the design and could use any advice anyone can offer.

: Obviously the most important hard-and-fast requirement is that a control top, when in place, is nice and solid. I don't want it to come loose when I'm thrashing a joystick.

: Other things that aren't requirements but would be nice to have are: relative ease of detachment, tool-less detachment, and minimal unsightliness of the detachment mechanism when the top is in place. (This means no big ugly knobs sticking out of the side of the box.)

: Any ideas?

I lined mine completely with Velcro all the way around. You would think that it wouldn't be tight, but it is. It does not move at all. I can yank on the joysticks hard enough to move my cabinet and the control panel does not budge a bit. To remove the control panel, you have to put quite a bit of force at a corner.

At the bottom of the control panel (on the inside) is a guide that rest against the edge of the cabinet.


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