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| X-men 4-player cabinet Restoration/Conversion |
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| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: opt2not on November 24, 2019, 12:41:11 pm --- --- Quote from: yotsuya on November 24, 2019, 11:43:48 am ---Not doing carriage bolts? --- End quote --- Yep, no carriage bolts. I like CP’s with only controls visible on the surface. It’s cleaner looking. --- End quote --- |
| opt2not:
Decided to take a chance on these joysticks: http://www.twistedquarter.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=190_193 They’re similar to the Wico microswitch joys, but with balltops. I’ve searched everywhere but couldn’t find balltop shafts for these Wico’s. The Wico leaf shafts are too thick, same with Groovy Game Gear’s versa 2 shafts — at 10mm diameter. These Wico microswitch shafts are 8mm in diameter. |
| opt2not:
Well, I decided to change my order to the Competition Balltops that TwistedQuarter offers: http://www.twistedquarter.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=190_674 I figure these are familiar in feel, and I know what I'm getting into with these rather than taking the chance on new joysticks I know nothing about. Also, I plan on doing more pass at the cabinet sides as well, filling and sand a bit more to get the surface to be as smooth as possible. When using vinyl art, you gotta make sure the surface is without blemishes because that will definitely show through when the vinyl is applied. In other news, I was able to source a monitor bezel for my K7000, off a facebook member in the Arcade Repair group. He should be sending it out to me any day now, so with this and the rest of the deliveries I'm waiting on, it's looking like it's going to be cutting it really close to my Dec 7th deadline. Controls and parts should be arriving either Friday or Saturday. Artwork is probably going to be on Monday/Tuesday. So that doesn't leave a lot of time to finish things off, which is why I should probably start wiring and getting the power sorted out now. I might even have to get everything hooked up before the artwork arrives, then apply the artwork as the last step. :timebomb: |
| wp34:
That's a good compromise for joysticks if you are not going to go full-Wico. |
| Arroyo:
Call me crazy but I thought I remember TMNT and other fight and go rights had Wico leaf sticks? I don’t remember the microswitch sound or feel :dunno |
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