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| myrmidon:
Hi All, I just purchased a very nice CPO on Ebay for my MS-Pac cabinet that also has an iCade 60-in-1 board in it. It has a 'plastic coating' finish on the front and is sticky on the back (I am not sure who originally made it, I got it on Ebay), I have attached a picture below. Anyway as mentioned above I want to install this on the control panel of my Ms-Pac cabinet, so being a midway cab it has a powder coated steel control panel, with the corresponding holes for the buttons/joystick/trackball. My question is: What is the best (cleanest/nicest) way to cut holes into my CPO? Should I stick it onto my control panel, and simply use an Xacto knife or box cutter to cut along the metal holes? Any guidance here will be much appreciated because I don't want to mess this up :-) |
| BadMouth:
--- Quote from: myrmidon on October 18, 2013, 03:00:27 pm --- stick it onto my control panel, and simply use an Xacto knife or box cutter to cut along the metal holes? --- End quote --- Yup. Xacto. Install a new blade before beginning. I start in the center and curl around to the outside edge. I've seen people make an X, but I fear that making straight lines could create a tear past the end of the cut. That probably isn't going to happen with your laminated overlay, but that's the way I do it. |
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