Re: Interchangeable control tops


[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Build Your Own Arcade Controls message board ] [ FAQ ]

Posted by Lilwolf on 12, 2001 at 11:02 AM:

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

I currently have clasps from the original arcade. But I'm having trouble getting the metal pieces under the control panel. So I have two control panels on hold until I either cut them out myself or find a supplier somewhere (anyone)?

If I was going to do it myself, I would use a router to make a track on both sides of the cabinet that the control panel slides into. Then another board (for the front) that lifts up and locks into place (pins maybe). So that the controlpanels are just a flat peice of wood.

This would allow me to build control panels cheap to see if it's worth it... and worse comes to worse, I loose a foot of plywood. If I like it, I would finish it off.

Why? I'm not possitivie if building a asteroid control panel is worth it... I have all the parts and it would take me 10 minuts to try... (ie, you can build stuff that you might just take apart after you try... and not get mad)

: 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?




Follow Ups:



Post a Followup

Name:
E-Mail:

Subject:

Comments:

Optional Link URL:
Link Title:
Optional Image URL:


[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Build Your Own Arcade Controls message board ] [ FAQ ]