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Working on my new Frankenpanel
pinballwizard79:
--- Quote from: wp34 on March 12, 2011, 08:38:11 pm ---That Tron stick looks nice. I'm working on something similar. Did you get the thumb switches from Happ?
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Yeah its from Happ. I bought this one here & it came with the two switches already installed (there are 3 sticks to choose from @ the bottom): http://www.happ.com/joysticks/50997000.htm Then I bought Randy's UV-Tron shell & some blacklight LED's
pinballwizard79:
Word, getting closer
VanillaGorilla:
PBWiz you do such clean, nice work, but I gotta ask, why is the tron stick top mounted when everything else is not? Is it staying that way, or is it a mock-up?
pinballwizard79:
Dude tell me about it.
Flush mounting the flight stick was going to be a huge PITA due to the fact it really just has to be top mounted. Its sorta like a trackball mounting plate but with carriage bolts on top of it going all the way from/through top to bottom where they fasten.
As much as I agree with you regarding how slick it would have looked flush mounted the person who helped me with the CAD/CNC work & I just opted to just let the black plate show vs routering it out deeper (reducing the panels strength) & putting a 1/2 inch of sloppy bondo on it (it would have to be routered out deeper than the trackball area due to the surface mount bolts).
I cant wait to play this thing, a glowing fudging Tron stick & hi/lo spinner OMF!!!!
drventure:
Sucks about the flightstick top mount, but, regardless, that's a nice looking frankenpanel!
I might just have to go searching for those cupholders in brass.
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Oh holy hell
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160562895328&hlp=false&rvr_id=224089272183&crlp=1_263602_304652&UA=%3F*F%3F&GUID=510307631280a02663a3a393ffed2c08&itemid=160562895328&ff4=263602_304652
Thanks. Now I gotta go buy 2 or 4 of these.