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Stargate Mini project
taylormadelv:
taylormadelv:
This little project turned into more hours of wiring a cabinet and control panel than I have ever done before. This is almost embarrasing but when I add up all the time involved with just this tiny control panel, it comes out to about 10 hours of wiring altogether and I DO know how to wire a control panel but this one was just soooo much detailed work in a tiny, tiny area!
The nicemite led's worked perfect! They were crucial in getting all those led's into basically no area to install them. The Stargate mini control panel I bought had the artwork reverse printed onto plexi and this made the cp just a tiny bit thicker than normal. So the pal nuts just had no meat to grab onto the leaf switch buttons, so I was forced to tape the nicemites down and the pushbuttons themselves are held with friction, as they are super duper tight in the plexi. In fact, there is joint compound in the holes from where someone glued in the original buttons. This is about as much wiring I could get into one tiny area!
You can see how I mounted the PCB towards the front of the cabinet, works nicely, as the volume pot control is directly on the PCB itself.
The special two way joystick needed to be rebuilt, as it was very sloppy moving up. I salvaged a Midway joystick for leaf switch parts and rebuilt this bad boy. No sloppiness! I has to use two screws instead of bolts to hold the leafs, so I screwed into a piece of scrap wood to hold everything together.
taylormadelv:
Here's how I mounted the monitor. A real, 13" CGA monitor, no VGA here!
The coin door is missing the coin return flaps, that can be taken care of later (Lizardlick has these)
Again, I ran into way more work than I ever imagined with the marquee. I thought this part would be easy but since the marquee is an actual 28+ year old NOS marquee, it still had the protective backing paper on it. I soaked this for hours in soapy water but it took at least 45 minutes of very, very carefully scraping off the paper, piece by piece by hand, ACK!
So after hours and hours of wiring and connecting and all the other stuff, I reach that critical moment where I hope everything is connected properly and won't blow up when I actually plug the game in for the first time. Posting progress here, just makes this even more of a highwire act, as if I fail, I fail in front of all the peeps reading this thread. I double, triple, checked, said a prayer, plugged her in and......
SHE WORKS!
Nephasth:
Very nice! :applaud:
Is tape your final solution for your LEDs? I know the last thing you want to do is more work to your CP, but this seems like a good solution to your pal nut problem:
Recessing holes for your pal nuts would be ideal, but if you don't want to recess holes for the pal nuts, the screws seem like a more reliable mounting method for the LEDs than tape.
taylormadelv:
She's not completely done but I get to post some very satisfying photos of her working here; I normally like my marquees off but the fact that the 6.3V bulbs are real dim in the marquee fits me perfectly, very happy with how the marquee is dim and doesn't light up the room it is in.
You can see the plastic bezel that I am using. It had a smooth, plastic finish, which I did not like and did not match the Williams bezel, so I painted it with Rustoleum Hammertone black and got a finish that is close to an original Williams bezel. I have used masking tape to secure the bezel until I cut a new piece of posterboard for the plastic bezel.
Also, as you can see, the Green translucent button is so dark that the led barely shines through it. Nicemite did not offer a dark green option, I really needed it...
The glass bezel and the bezel artwork will be last....Thanks for looking!
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