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chucklepie:
Hello,
After reading slagcoin website and a few others discussing joysticks I'm going to get the seimitsu ls-32 (I play more shooters than fighting games) and I like ball tops :)

I'm going to mount them on 3/4 (well, it's 18mm) MDF. Reading slagcoin it says for both seimitsu and sanwa you should have about 23mm from the top of the control panel to the bottom of the ball. The actual size of this unmounted (the length of the shaft) is 27mm on the seimitsu and the base mounting plate is 1.6mm thick.

Doing some quick maths, is this correct? I've got to go down 4mm and as I'm using 3mm acrylic I should route about 2.6mm into the top of the panel to reduce the 27mm shaft to about 23mm? this means of course you can't mount the LS-32 from underneath 3/4 MDF.

The sanwa as far as I can see (if I go for it) has a 34mm shaft so I'd have to go down a further 7mm to 9.6mm?
PL1:

--- Quote from: chucklepie on September 28, 2012, 06:39:52 pm ---I'm going to mount them on 3/4 (well, it's 18mm) MDF.
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The sanwa as far as I can see (if I go for it) has a 34mm shaft so I'd have to go down a further 7mm to 9.6mm?

--- End quote ---

Instead of routing out 9.6mm from the top, you'll be better off routing in from the bottom. 
- Undermounted sticks are much easier to replace.
- If you use a plexi cover, you won't have to take apart the whole panel including every single button to remove/change a stick.
- If you use an adhesive vinyl overlay, you won't have to tear up the artwork to remove/change a stick.

This thread has lots of information on insert nuts, pics, links, and several other mounting suggestions.


Scott
BadMouth:
Haven't done it yet, but my plan is to route the CP underneath and use S Mounting Plates.
http://www.focusattack.com/seimitsu-s-mounting-plate/

They only give you a little bit of offset, but it's enough to use screws to mount it.
dfmaverick:
Franco's Tutorial for top mount:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,90467.0.html
PL1:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on September 28, 2012, 07:59:51 pm ---Haven't done it yet, but my plan is to route the CP underneath and use S Mounting Plates.
http://www.focusattack.com/seimitsu-s-mounting-plate/

They only give you a little bit of offset, but it's enough to use screws to mount it.

--- End quote ---

Looks like a good idea.   :cheers:

One of the guys at Shoryuken found the measurements for the plate.



The extra 4.8mm should provide the needed clearance for undermounting using insert nuts.


Scott
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