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| coasternuts:
What do the wise say of this control panel? I am planning on doing an overlay and this will eventually be attached to an upright cabinet. I plan on using 2 Ultimarc 2 1/4" trackballs. 1) If I use 3/4" MDF or 3/4" plywood, with the overlay, will the 3/4" t-molding be good enough? Blue only comes in 3/4", that's why I ask. 2) Is it difficult to recess the mounting plate in MDF and/or plywood? I'm a newb when it comes to woodworking. 3) Any reason I should not use any of the above? Button layout, etc. The 1/2 player buttons I still haven't decided whether I'll put them on the cabinet or on the panels. Thanks for looking! |
| fogman:
The triangular pitched buttons may be a problem. You would be covering up the middle button when hitting the tops ones. Think missile command. You should be able to get three buttons in an arc, about how your fingers are. If you want to be ambidextrous, put three buttons in the center and three more one the end. That way there are three buttons to the left and right of each player. You may have to reconfigure for some games, but it will work. As for the construction, 3/4" T-Moulding is the same width as the MDF and plywood. I assume the plywood will be painted, so any deviation will be so slight you'll never notice. Its works fine. The one and two player buttons can be anywhere you want, as long as they don't interfere with the gaming buttons. Hope this helps... |
| GGKoul:
I put 3 buttons above the trackball. It works great! |
| GameOver:
--- Quote from: coasternuts on February 01, 2005, 02:12:26 pm ---2) Is it difficult to recess the mounting plate in MDF and/or plywood? I'm a newb --- End quote --- I never did this either until I recessed my joysticks from under the control panel. (I guess it's not 'recessed' since their under the panel? What does that make them? sub-cessed? :P What worked like a charm for me was to make a router template from scrap which I clamped to the CP, then just routed out everything inside the template. You can adjust the depth of your router so you only get out what you need. Really not too difficult, a little tricky figuring out how big to make the template for a rookie. Once you have the template, it's a piece of cake. |
| fogman:
You don't really need a template, because the recess should be larger that the trackball mounting anyway. The remaining material will be more than sufficient to hold the trakcball in. I just cut out the mounting template, traced it on the underside of the panel and made sure I had routed out the outline completely. No problem and unlike kinergarden, you SHOULD stay outside the lines. |
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