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Game Grid -- *ALMOST FINISHED* Rotating panel and rotating monitor.
phildo77:
--- Quote from: drventure on April 10, 2010, 09:36:44 am ---So, does that control panel rotate? Or does it just flip down for access?
The giant rotating monitor is slick, in any case!
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The panel rotates. But I only ever got ONE panel installed so I guess you could say it did just flip down for access. This time around It''ll be a full three rotatable panels.
phildo77:
Found my rotating monitor sprocket and chain for $4.50 at Goodwill. ;D
The sprocket had a large center hole, so I needed something to shrink that hole so it would fit around a bolt. JB Weld rocks!
Here I sandwiched the sprocket between to fender washers and JB welded them together. I spent a lot of time looking for something to extend the threads coming off the motor and let me tell you it was not easy. The wiper motor I got was for a 90's Toyota Corolla. The threads coming off the motor were metric M8 FINE pitch threads (1.00). You will NOT find anything very helpful to extend that at your local Lowe's, Home Depot or Ace hardware. I debated buying pieces online but after playing with a bunch of options while in Ace Hardware found a combination that'll work. I'll post pics of that after I've finalized it.
I hope to have artwork sent off to the shop today.
I would have purchased the EICE2 pushbuttons yesterday but it seems that all you guys are busy at work. GGG is out of stock for a couple of weeks!
HaRuMaN:
Wow that bike is awesome! :D
Turnarcades:
If you are going to this much trouble I'dhve gone back to the drawing board and started again from scratch - you've gutted it anyway and the shell was not finished, so with wood so cheap you could better have designed the cabinet to suit the rotating design and the components you already have.
Speaking from experience, planning around parts you have is much better practice than building/hacking o what you intend to buy. A major thing I would at least re-do is the size of the control panel, which is out of proportion from the rest of the machine.
phildo77:
--- Quote from: Turnarcades on April 13, 2010, 11:05:12 pm ---Speaking from experience, planning around parts you have is much better practice than building/hacking o what you intend to buy. A major thing I would at least re-do is the size of the control panel, which is out of proportion from the rest of the machine.
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I've shrunk the panel by design already by 6". This will bring it more into proportion and allow me to create a "deck" panel that will have UI buttons, semi-auto rotate monitor switch, player 1 & 2 coin/start buttons and a black light to shine onto the control panel underneath some artwork. I'm going to be adding to the existing rotating monitor mount to make it more robust and be operated by the motor.
Stop raining on my parade dammit!! :badmood: This thing will look great when its done! I promise!
;D