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| vib_ribbon:
this may have been bad practice, but i never use to screw my pcbs to the wooden board to keep it in place, the pcb would just rest against it (the cab's heavy, it wasn't like i can knock it and it would fall over). i might have a couple of goes on 1 game then i'd unplug it and plug in another game. i did have a JAMMA splitter but even then when you have mates round, i'd be constantly switching between boards during the course of the day. i think i broke a game just doing that once, luckily, it wasn't a hard to find/ expensive game so i didnt lose sleep over it. still, it was 35pounds down the drain when i re-sold it as parts for a 5er. it's those games that are 3 layers thick and need an adapter that worries me the most... |
| AmericanDemon:
If you are really worried, you could mount all of your PCBs in a box. Then just move the Jamma connector. Everything is solidly mounted so the board doesnt move at all. |
| pcb:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 15, 2005, 01:18:17 pm ---Yeah, I know a lot of folks who use Priority Mail boxes... just put the box in the cab and connect it. --- End quote --- Ack! No! I was under the impression he wanted to know how to store his boards while not in use! If your looking for a way to mount them for playing them, you can get a universal board mount from Happ Controls that screws to the inside of the cab, and can adjust to many different pcb sizes. Maybe we need a clarification on what you mean by 'casing'. |
| vib_ribbon:
pcb, sorry for the confusion... but having read everyone's feedback on this subject, i think for some of my older boards, i might "make" some sort of a non-enclosed wooden box/ bracket for them so that they can't be flexed easily and that there is a some protective cover for its top and bottom. they will be mounted to these boxes permanently in and out of a cab. does that make sense and would that be dangerous... eg, potentially not enough room to breathe and overheat in the cab? |
| thetered:
I hope you find something you want, but do you have a mame cab by anychance, then you could play them and keep the origonals safe. But I know for some it's never an acceptable solution. But otherwise like you are talking about make kind of like a shelf that will fit in the cab and slide them all in, kind of like they do with networking and servers where they have them all stacked in shelves. |
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