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| wp34:
--- Quote from: SlappyKungFuGrip on September 03, 2015, 01:52:33 am ---My mistake..The pic says it all.. What was I thinking !! But I love buttons! --- End quote --- That's the right way to make a mistake. Call it R&D. |
| monkeybomb:
I read slowly and have little patience for instructions, so they are actually difficult for me get through, even when I stick it out. So I end up jumping into things without proper per-requsite knowledge. Well... that's a disaster in this hobby and I've made far more mistakes than things I've done correctly. From the outside, the funniest is probably that I borrowed a router without knowing what would happen and cut a t-molding slot in my apartment. While the slot was cut correctly and the t-molding looked nice, it turns out that MDF dust goes flying absolutely everywhere when you do this. Completely sprayed the entire place. I guess I thought the wood from the slot would just politely fall down as was If I have an actual regret is that I sold the first thing that I was really happy with. It was a SFII showcase control panel with a computer mounted inside. I think I paid $25 for the CP and I don't think I can match that today. It ended up as a plug and play arcade in a box with optical sticks and a shazam key that allowed me to have access to everything without adding buttonholes to the panel. It felt real to play it, even on a TV. The picture on the BST thread is just of the CP from e-bay when I bought it. I don't have a pic of the computer mounted in the box, but you've seen those. And I never owned that cow. Don't put that on me. Last one. You could call it a mistake, but I got a kick out of the result and decided not to change it when I had a chance a few months after it happened. The group was trying to get a thread sent to post hell and I said that Saint was over-rated. I'll let you figure out the consequence. |
| SlappyKungFuGrip:
Another mistake.. Drilling pinball buttons. Always check that they dont crash with the Cp buttons ! |
| SavannahLion:
C and E clips. |
| Howard_Casto:
Something I regret is some of my "purist" philosophies. The biggest one is the monitor. If it's a conversion and there is an arcade monitor in there then fine, but I doubt I'll ever go back to clunky old crt's ever again for a new build. Sometimes you've got to get with the times and although I love the way a 15khz crt looks, it severely limits what you can do and play, not to mention the fact that the bigger ones weigh a ton. |
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