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mllkat:

Greeting's,
I am in the middle of converting a Taito cabinet and I am having trouble in designing my control panel. The original metal control panel is in decent shape but is not laid out in the configuration I want. I was hoping to make it a two player control panel with six buttons for each player, along with player 1 and 2 start buttons. However I am at a loss to see how I can fit all of that on a panel the size of the original. I have enclosed a pic of the original panel. Any suggestions would be appreciated or if you could steer me in the direction of one of the posted examples who used something similar.

Thanks,
Mllkat

Apollo:

I would suggest you don't mutilate that CP but that you get a sheet metal business to make you a blank copy of the panel, have it drilled ( you could do that yourself ) and the powder coat it. Then just SF layout should fit fine.

steve_pss:

Qix was never a real favorite in the arcades and as such most of the oringinal cabs were coverted. They're are not many orginals intact. Please put that CO on Ebay and let someone restoring an orginal buy it.

mllkat:


--- Quote from: steve_pss on April 25, 2004, 11:43:44 pm ---Qix was never a real favorite in the arcades and as such most of the oringinal cabs were coverted. They're are not many orginals intact. Please put that CO on Ebay and let someone restoring an orginal buy it.

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That is a good idea. I really wasn't planning on trying to reuse the original but instead build another CP. I would certainly entertain selling it to someone who would need it to restore a QIX machine. I am just at a loss to figure out how to install a larger CP in the small area given. I will figure it out eventually but I am always interested in others ideas.

pmc:

I fit a 2-player arrangement into a 8"x24.5" panel. 2 sticks and six player buttons each plus a row along the top for coin1/2, 1P/2P start, pause, and escape.

My microswitches extend vertically so there's space (although it's tight underneath).

Not alot of palm-rest space, but it's compact, clean looking, and uncluttered.

Make a mock-up out of plywood or MDF to try it out.

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