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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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