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Dust washers, on top or underneath the control panel?
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TOK:
Many sticks have a lip around the top to provide clearance for the dust washer to be mounted beneath the panel regardless of material. Up top looks amateur to me, I can't help but associate it with all the bad JAMMA conversions I've seen.

emphatic:
I don't have homebuilt cabinets no more, so I don't have to decide what look better, I just do what the flyer shows:
http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=5910&image=2

 :cheers:
dandare:
Slightly off main topic here.

Being a recent convert from US/Euro (Happ) to Japanese controls (Sanwa/Seimitsu) I got a couple of JLF's and the came with 2 washers each.

Is one a spare? 1 over 1 under?
Bludgeon:
Yeah, one over one under.  That's the JLFs come installed from my understanding.

Those 31mm washers from Art's Hobbies look really nice for those who prefer the unobtrusive look.  Though, I wouldn't go as far as ordering a custom plexi for underneath, they don't fit the shaft quite as tightly as the official parts.  But I mean, if you weren't going to have one on top at all, then you're probably not paranoid about a little dust making its way down into the stick anyhow.
Xiaou2:
Ohh, I just remembered another reason....

 While yes, there is a lip for a dust washer on most sticks...  there were machines which the dust washers were mounted directly under the plexi.  Meaning:

 Plexi, dw, wood, joystick.

 Not

 plexi, wood, dw, joystick


 The wood thus still had to be routed for the DW.  This is how it was supposed to be installed with a wood control panel.  Otherwise, the hole is too deep, allowing hand pinching, as well as crap getting in the hole.

 The lip is meant for metal control panels only.

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