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Madman's Arcade - Contol Panel build
MadmanDK:
Thanks Franco B..
Couldn't see if his shop still was in business, or shut down long time ago.. so mailed him last night, and he is still going strong..
I think i will start by ordering the around 150cm i need for the control panel, and in some different colours to see which colour goes best with the full cabinet colour scheme..
Black cabinet with CP and Maquee with a mostly blue look..
I'm thinking of :
Black : The classic, but might be a bit too borring with black cabinet and black t-mold?
Light Blue : Just to see how light blue it really is
Dark Blue : My favorite which i hope will look good around the blue fire
Yellow : Might be too dominant, but would fit the pacman track in the CP
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Today wasn't that productiv as i hoped. I had to get rid of alot of junk, and drive it to the recycling-station.. That's the downside of having a large basement and garage : you gather alot of junk and garbage, instead of getting rid of it in small bits..
I started by drawing the joystick's body and mountingplate
Sawing the inner out with a jigsaw, and then router the countersinking of the mountingplate
The mountingplates didn't have countersinked holes for the screws, so had to take care of that
The result : The plate is the same height as the wood
I have been thinking if the CP should be a closed box, or you should be able to open it for maintenance, so played around with some brackets from a kitchen cabinet
But somewhere somehow the measurement went down the drain, so had to rout some extra, and mess around with the mountingpositions
But i think i'll skip the idea of the brackets, because it also needs some sort of a lock in the front, so the lid won't open while two guys a playing hard, so i think it will be a closed box, where the bottom part won't be glued, so it can be screwed out if i need to open it for maintenance..
The holes i made kan be fixed with this : Chemical tree.. a two-component filler
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The plan for tomorrow:
Build a new box, and paint it all black..
I won't mount the top-plate until i have routed the groove for the t-mold, and i don't have the router-bit yet..
I think the £35 for a routerbit is way too harsh, so have to find it elsewhere..