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Rick:

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While I may be in the minority here, in my opinion, there is very little worth saving. Even filling the holes with any of the methods above (welding blanks being the most 'original' repro) you still have that wood piece to deal with, and it looks awful.

If it were me, I'd source a NOS piece, or cut my losses and recreate the piece from scratch.
jdbailey1206:

--- Quote from: Rick on August 09, 2013, 01:10:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: marioxb on August 09, 2013, 10:43:44 am ---
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While I may be in the minority here, in my opinion, there is very little worth saving. Even filling the holes with any of the methods above (welding blanks being the most 'original' repro) you still have that wood piece to deal with, and it looks awful.

If it were me, I'd source a NOS piece, or cut my losses and recreate the piece from scratch.

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Rick you are definitely not the minority here.  I agree.  I would be worried if it was actually bondoed Marioxb could get maybe 20-25 good runs of *insert generic fighter here* before the joystick and buttons would begin to fall inward.  Plus on top of losing the control board he worked so hard on he would be out the "x" amount of dollars that was payed for the CP art.  Bottom line - Sometimes it's okay to start new. 
opt2not:
Has anyone used Devcon metal filler? A buddy of mine who's a metal worker recommended it to me recently. I told him I normally use bondo for my CP fixes, and he said to try this stuff cause its stronger than bondo.
  :dunno
marioxb:

--- Quote from: jdbailey1206 on August 09, 2013, 01:26:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: Rick on August 09, 2013, 01:10:57 pm ---
While I may be in the minority here, in my opinion, there is very little worth saving. Even filling the holes with any of the methods above (welding blanks being the most 'original' repro) you still have that wood piece to deal with, and it looks awful.

If it were me, I'd source a NOS piece, or cut my losses and recreate the piece from scratch.

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Rick you are definitely not the minority here.  I agree.  I would be worried if it was actually bondoed Marioxb could get maybe 20-25 good runs of *insert generic fighter here* before the joystick and buttons would begin to fall inward.  Plus on top of losing the control board he worked so hard on he would be out the "x" amount of dollars that was payed for the CP art.  Bottom line - Sometimes it's okay to start new.

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Yeah, it's a piece of junk, I know. I'd probably feel bad ordering a "new" DL2 panel just to smurf up (and I chose to write that word, I find it funny every time I see it used by Saint's sensor). I have zero wood working skills or tools, and I have no wood-working friends.

That being said, does anyone here "hire" themselves out to do things like this? Any other games use a panel with these same dimensions that already is a fighting game or something?
michelevit:
devcon is overkill and expen$ive. you want bondo. the big bucket of it is like 14 bucks.
if your time is worth anything just start from scratch or buy a new replacement control panel.
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