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froggerman:
Interesting comment about the 1/2" plywood. I am sure that Baltic Birch would make a great control panel.
Just as an aside, my Konami Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cabinet has a particle board control panel. I am sure that it is the original as you can still see the holes for the 4 joysticks and 8 buttons.
krick:
My cab from 1992 (probably was originally either a Sega "Arabian Fight" or "Golden Axe: The Revenge Of Death Adder") has a 3/4 MDF control panel.  It has what appear to be Happ Ultimate or Competition joysticks (I can't tell the difference) and they aren't routed out underneath.  The shafts might be longer than other joysticks though.  I have nothing to compare them to.

The control panel has 3/4" t-molding around the edge that fits perfectly.  No overlap.

A problem with plywood I've seen mentioned here is that when routing the edge for t-molding, often the router bit takes out a whole layer of the plywood "sandwich" and you end up with a groove that is too wide.  The result is t-molding that doesn't stay in the groove without glue.

Will all this said, what do you guys think about metal joystick mounting plates?...


Bob Roberts sells them...
http://www.dameon.net/BBBB/parts.html#joysticks
Lilwolf:
btw... before spending too much cash...

routers at wallmart are about 34 bucks.  

and you will use them a lot.

The only trouble with my super cheap router... Is that its a full time plunger... You can't really just set it at a specific depth and let it go... because the mechanism to do that really sucks..  So it sucks for t-molding

BUT...

you can get for 20 bucks a non-plunger rounter.
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