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deezdrama:
Ya sounds like a plan.

Heres my next dilema...
I was going to skip on coin doors but decided I need to use them for that true arcade feel.

My vendetta 4p cab has two dual over under doors mounted side by side.
I was going to sell this cab but decided to keep it for the coin doors.

Problem is... one of the mechs isnt working and have not had time to investigate why, not a huge deal but the bigger issue is -
I need to have room in the bottom of my cab for the coin door/doors, a mid tower pc, and a subwoofer.

This has me thinking about just installing one of the vendettas dual coin doors.

How silly would it be to only have a 2 player coin door on a 4p cab?
I guess it would work ok for demonstrating the ability to eat quarters on any 2p games.Or maybe could wire up 2 players coin in buttons to each of the 2 switches on the coin door.

Would you guys try to cram all 4 in the cab, just go with a single 2p door, or just pass on the coin doors?

deezdrama:
Well... I got one door out. I think im just going to go with on of these dual mech doors.
I wont be using quarters much but will be cool to demonstrate it on 2 player games at least.

I bought a 1" top bearing clone router bit and planned on using that but have no idea how to go about it.
I guess I would need to build a guide fence frame.... sounds easier to just bust out the skillsaw since I can cut straight lines and could just hole saw the corner radiuses first..... we will see.

I have no idea if these mechs work. When it was in the vendetta cab I just flicked the quarter bar on the switches with my fingers.
The coin release buttons - springs get stuck back when the buttons depressed... maybee they just need cleaned/oiled?
Do they make drop in replacement switches for these? What about coin return buttons?
Would like blue or yellow.
Maybe I should call Coin Controls Inc hotline for help? (See pic to explain my bad attempt at humor)lol

deezdrama:
Ok.... I can figure out all my previous questions but really need help with this one....

I plan on getting the utrak trackball and from as far as I can tell it states it needs 2" of bottom clearance.

well because of the way I had to build my cp to get the angle I wanted... I only have about 1 3/4" clearance at the bottom of my cp.

In the second pic ...the screw is in my punched guide hole for where the center of the hole will be for the trackball.... i measured over parralel to that where a button hole is and I have 1 7/8" clearance.

I dont know how far down the back base of the utrack extends from center but wondering if I should move my trackball up on the cp an inch or two to get more clearance and then just adjust for this the best i can in photoshop for my cp overlay?

I probably will need to remove some material up to a half an inch on the bottom inside of my cp box. I wont be able to get a router in there due to the bottom board of the cp box being there. I could cut out a square area from the bottom of the cp box and cover it by screwing a piece of thin gauge aluminum sheet over the hole but that wont be pretty.

Easiest solution for me would be to sand that area out with sanding resin pads on my grinder but that might be even less pretty when looking inside my cp box.

What would you guys do?

Slippyblade:
While it's nice to have the inside all pretty, I'm a firm believer in "Make it work". YOU are the only person who will be inside your CP, so if it needs to look ugly to make it work... so be it.

JDFan:
Get a chisel and hammer and it should make quick work of removing the amount of material you need to and should look decent !! Figure a 3 pc. set of chisels is less than $10 at Walmart !

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