So yesterday morning I was at this stage
Which I was super happy about. I got stuck into some street fighter III / IV and managed to pull a stick from it's mounts... I used JB Weld to secure the studs just like kyoke did in his r-cade build
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=101184.0 Maybe I'm a vigorous street fighter player, maybe my JB Weld application was poor, maybe JB Weld just isn't up to the job
My neighbour has some welding kit so I tapped him to weld on some studs for mounting. i used the spare CP that I was given. 8 studs welded later it became apparent that the panel had twisted during the weld obviously through too much heat. This panel is now unable to fit onto the cab and i'm guessing wil have to be trashed...
So I returned to the original panel, stripped it out, ground off the remaining JB Weld and drilled mounting holes which I also countersunk. Popped all the buttons and sticks in and also wired in the power for my 2 illuminated buttons, and played some street fighter for an hour. Zero movement from the sticks
I then decided to drill my holes in the CP overlay. I had a sheet of 4mm perspex cut to size for this. Basically I messed up a couple of holes and they didn't marry with the metal. The good thing is that my sanwa snap in buttons didn't have the necessary steps to click in anyway. I didn't feel as bad a bout my mistake after that.
I had some spare 2mm perspex from the bezel and marquee, so I got stuck into that.
1st attempt; made a massive scratch across the piece as I was scoring for the cut. Great. It's ok though as I can get another piece out of what I have. Super slowly, managed to get the cut made, then the holes drilled, and it all fit! Sweet, so I just need to drill the 4 mounting holes for the 4mm bolts to go through. 1st one, no probs, 2nd one CRACK!!!! The perspex shattered.
Only things left to do are;
Adhere vinyl to CP.
Get more perspex and mount it to CP.
Insert Marquee art.
Bit more software configuration.
Hopefully, next weekend it will be completed...