I have a Japanese style sit-down cabinet. It was a SF2, so it has the 6 button layout and then two buttons in between player 1 and player 2 for for 1 player and 2 player.
I'd like to make a modular control panel for this cabinet, so that I don't make any cuts into the original. What metal would I use? What type of shops would I want to contact? How expensive would any one estimate it would cost me to have a couple of cuts made and the holes drilled?
I should note that the top of the control panel removes from the "control box?" with 6 bolts. And has a very nice latch system built into place where these can be removed very quickly. So I would only be "building" the removable panel or top of the control panel. So, I'd only be dealing with a space of 5"x19" Hmm. Need to get a camera.
I have a metal swappable panel (not sure if you mean swappable when you say modular ) and it's not too
bad. I had to find a place that would sell sheets of steel , costs about 5 bucks a pop. I put rivet nuts
inside the metal housing and with a couple of thumbscrews I can switch. I use molex connectors to
hook up the electronics. Wood definetly would be easier but I would have had to build the entire
control panel assemply and connections from scratch and I'm not good at woodworking. A 1 1/8" bi/metal
hole saw can cut the holes you need in the metal. One thing I can say about the metal panels is that
they are *sturdy*. I covered them w/ black pica vinyl from Happs too which is easy to maintain/clean etc.
HTH