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Wife- / Living-Room-Friendly Cocktail Cab
piecesof8:
Thanks, guys. Learn something new every day!
piecesof8:
Last post in August, huh? Wow, slow is me.
I figured nobody really wanted to see a "mounted my fans" post followed several weeks later by a "wired up a joystick" post, so I've been saving up my progress until I could post a more significant update. Yeah, let's go with that explanation - nothing to do with me being too lazy to gather up all the photos and resize them.
Hang on, this next update's gonna be a doozy!
piecesof8:
Okay, time to wire up and install the vertical control panels. I used button head screws with nylon lock nuts to mount all my joys. Maybe not quite as clean looking as carriage bolts, but they definitely made for easy installation. They seem to catch a lot of the camera flash for some reason - they're actually much blacker in real life than they appear in the photos.
piecesof8:
Fans! Of the silent variety!
I used the same type of button head screws to mount these. I wasn't crazy about the Yin Yang theme of the fan guards, but they were black and cheap and I figured nobody would be looking at them up close anyway.
piecesof8:
Time to finish up that third control panel. I found that the circular recesses under the joysticks weren't quite adequate for the diamond-shaped bottoms of the U360's, so I had to get creative with the RTX:
After everything was closing properly, it was on to installing the joys (button head screws again) and wiring up all the buttons. I used bat tops over here, because I thought they would feel more authentic for the type of games I'll be playing on this side.