Joystick mounting--"sandwich" approach workable?

[vputz]

I'm using an odd surface for my CP (it's intended to be a CP that lives in a trunk, because I don't quite have the funding for a proper cabinet and this way I can hide it away from curious chewing huskies when it's not in use)...

Basically I'm a cheap bastige, and I have a spare package of Pergo laminate flooring that  will be enough to cover the CP.  The Pergo is about 1/4 inch thick, so I figured that if I used 1/2 inch particleboard and covered it with the Pergo, I'd have roughly a 3/4" sandwich, and with black T-molding on the sides, no one would be the wiser (and while I'm not crazy about a woodgrain CP, I will say that the stuff is TOUGH).  You could use 1/4" hardboard as well, I guess (well, two layers of 1/8", I haven't seen 1/4" I don't think), for a similar approach.  All edges will be T-molded (I'll only need about 12' of the stuff for this wee CP, and T-molding.com has a min order of 20', so I can be generous...).

But now I have a dilemma.  It seems that the popular way to mount joysticks in 3/4" panels is to route out about 1/4 inch or so to avoid using up too much stick height.  But I thought--since I'm going to be making a Pergo-particleboard sandwich, why not top-mount the stick to the particleboard and then lay the Pergo over it, thereby only using 1/4" stick height?

It sounds reasonable.  But the stick mounting plate has a finite depth (I guess I could route out the top of the particleboard just a bit so the plate nestled down in there).  But what fasteners would have a really low profile, so they wouldn't fill too much space between the particleboard and Pergo?

-->VPutz

[Apollo]

Flathead slotted bolts are probably your best bet.

[patrickl]

I also made a layered CP top and I'm working on another one. I used a screw + bolt  to fasten the joystick on top of the bottom layer. I routed out the top of the bottom layer to hold the joystick base/mounting "plate". Allthough my bottom layer was 18mm thick so I had more room to route out the top.

[ErikRuud]

My CP's have been made from a top layer of 1/4" inch plywood and 1/2" inch plywood.  I cut holes completely through the 1/2" layer and used flat head security bolts to mount the joysticks to the 1/4" layer.

You can sort of see it in the pictures in this thread: http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=12801;start=msg101271#msg101271