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local Asteroids cab. / connection methods for swappable CP's
TopJimmyCooks:
Point taken, Darren. As long as a purist archetype like yourself and a scratch builder/Cab Mamer archetype like myself can exchange some ideas and rise above some background noise, it's cool. Not to pigeonhole anybody, but those terms describe where we're basically coming from. Didn't mean to imply you couldn't handle yourself, at all.
Funny you mentioned that this is the least mature forum though. I find it more mature than RGP (although the crowd is obviously older) or klov. If you want to see immature try a brand related motorcycle forum or guitar related forum, even moderated heavily, they are ridiculous. They make the comments on a torrent site look like learned discourse.
Nephasth: that dock is interesting, but what i need is a row of 8 or 10 of the pyramid contacts shown in front of the main data connector. I'm working with a wood cp box and wood swap panels, I don't have the tolerance (or the soldering chops) to use a really small set of contacts.
yotsuya:
--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on September 15, 2011, 09:59:36 am ---Point taken, Darren. As long as a purist archetype like yourself and a scratch builder/Cab Mamer archetype like myself can exchange some ideas and rise above some background noise, it's cool. Not to pigeonhole anybody, but those terms describe where we're basically coming from. Didn't mean to imply you couldn't handle yourself, at all.
Funny you mentioned that this is the least mature forum though. I find it more mature than RGP (although the crowd is obviously older) or klov. If you want to see immature try a brand related motorcycle forum or guitar related forum, even moderated heavily, they are ridiculous. They make the comments on a torrent site look like learned discourse.
Nephasth: that dock is interesting, but what i need is a row of 8 or 10 of the pyramid contacts shown in front of the main data connector. I'm working with a wood cp box and wood swap panels, I don't have the tolerance (or the soldering chops) to use a really small set of contacts.
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Yeah, what I like about this forum more than most is the level of maturity AND the spirit of community.
D_Harris:
--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on September 15, 2011, 09:59:36 am ---Point taken, Darren. As long as a purist archetype like yourself and a scratch builder/Cab Mamer archetype like myself can exchange some ideas and rise above some background noise, it's cool. Not to pigeonhole anybody, but those terms describe where we're basically coming from. Didn't mean to imply you couldn't handle yourself, at all.
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Well, I'm definitely not a "purist", and I have nothing against building cabs or doing things from scratch. After all I'm on this forum, and my control panel projects are being done on original arcade cabs.
All I conveyed was that I will only play a game using it's original control format. (The instigators/trolls of course will attempt to analyze and decipher my personal preference to mean that I'm attacking everyone with a Franken-panel or call me "uppity").
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Funny you mentioned that this is the least mature forum though. I find it more mature than RGP (although the crowd is obviously older) or klov. If you want to see immature try a brand related motorcycle forum or guitar related forum, even moderated heavily, they are ridiculous. They make the comments on a torrent site look like learned discourse.
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Well, I didn't say that this is the least mature forum. Just out of those I frequent.
BTW. Below are pics of one of the printer port switches I picked up some years ago with the intent to use them to switch between game PCBs before I decided to go the "Build your own" route with that project also.
I haven't opened one up to see what kind of contacts they use, but I'm sure they're small.
I can't remember the exact thickness of the sheet I made the contacts from, but as I said the thicker you can make them the better. I'd say a minimum of .032", .040" or thereabouts should suffice. And you can make the contacts as wide as you want. Mine are 1/4".
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
saint:
Thread trimmed of most of the argument I think, back to your regularly scheduled Pax Arcada please.
Note - please folks, if you think a thread is going bad and being ignored by the mods, report it. We can't help if we don't know there's a problem, and I unfortunately don't have time to read every thread :)
*Oh - and this is an interesting thread, so any side comments on this moderation or *sigh* need to continue the side-argument, please do it in PM or elsewhere. Thanks :)*
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D_Harris:
@saint: Thanks.
@TopJimmyCooks: If you're going through with this project, I'll answer any questions I can.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.