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why couldn't you just cut a piece of wood for a cp that has the same height as a metal one? i forgot about this, but what size thickness is a metal control panel? wouldn't this solve the problem for joysticks that are meant for a metal cp and are too short for a wood one?
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The metal that is used for metal CPs is usually pretty thin. We're talkin' like less than 1/8", maybe less than 1/16...
To use wood at that thickness wouldn't work in the slightest.
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oh, okay. i thought for a metal cp it was about 1/4". i can see how wood wouldn't work. i was wondering how you would cut metal at 1/4" without using a blowtorch
, but makes more sense for it to be 1/8 or 1/16"
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Unless it was a particularly tough but malleable type of wood, some kind of wood that even if it were in a sheet 2mm thick would still be strong enough, like steel! That's it, you could use steel.
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