another Tornado-Oscar PCb hack...

[Thenasty]

First there was Maraxle

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,26186.0.html


Then there was Krick

http://mame.3feetunder.com/tornadomod/


Now Thenasty Version.

What I did here was use a Plexi and measured the entire backside of the tornado and use the existing bolt hole to keep it in place. Then I cut a square in the middle for the OPTO of the Oscars Optic board and drilled hole on corners (krick) to bolt the Optic board in place.
I think this picture should clear everything up. I can also turn the Optic Board upside down (maraxle) but I did not drill the hole in the plexi for it, but that would be another 1min mod.

[NoOne=NBA=]

What do you guys have against foam tape?

I don't have a Tornado, but I've used it to mount Oscar's boards on just about everything else--with PERFECT results.

[krick]

What do you guys have against foam tape?

Foam tape doesn't last forever.  I don't trust the glue with the cabinet insides heating up.

I also like something a little more permanent (but adjustable) and professional looking when I'm showing it off to friends and family.

But yeah, in a pinch, I'm sure foam tape would work.

[NoOne=NBA=]

Do people really see inside all your guys cabinets?

In the whole time I've had mine nobody's ever wanted to look INSIDE it.

They are all more concerned about "will it play this?", than "how does that hook up?".

[krick]

When I tell people that there's a PC running an emulator in my cabinet, they kind of look at me funny like they don't really understand what I mean.

I guess they can't understand how the controls and everything hook up and they want to actually see it.

When I show them PC case and the wires connecting everything, then they get it.

[Minwah]

Do people really see inside all your guys cabinets?

Heh, I know we had this the other week too   Again, no-one sees the inside of mine except me, but I have some affliction that makes me concerned of how it looks.  The other day I made a 'pedal mech cover' which also doubles as a coin box stand.  I don't really *need* it, but it works well and I painted it to match the rest of the fully painted interior.

I think I have a problem 

 

[Stingray]

I think I have a problem 

If you do it's a problem many of us share. But like you said, we already had this discussion a week or so ago.

Suffice to say that many of us do care how things look inside our cabs.

-S

[NoOne=NBA=]

Must be my "Jeep-Guy" side showing through.

I painted the OUTSIDE of the cabinet, and still have plans to make some nice art for that.
The inside, on the other hand, is a huge tangle of wires (and other assorted stuff) just kind of thrown in there, stapled to the wall, etc...

I've just never been one to spend time making stuff I hope never to see again pretty.
I am going to upgrade my current cabinet to vertical only, so I guess I'll see it again for a couple days, but that should (theoretically, at least) be the last time.

[Thenasty]

I still yet to see the guy who puts sideart inside the Cabinet  and Artwork unde the CP 

[krick]

A while back, there was a guy with a thick acrylic (transparent) control panel top that was lighted inside so that you could see all the wiring.

And someone made a full acrylic Ms. Pac-Man cabinet or something like that a few years ago.