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| ScoopKW:
OK.... If you're not familiar with Supercade, please click this: http://www.cybercoma.com/supercade/ Now then: See the split level control panel? I want to be able to EASILY remove the top level, and replace it with another secondary control panel. Bolts and T-nuts aren't easy enough. I want to pull the sucker off, yet have stability for using the controls. I'm thinking about four posts coming from the top panel that seat into holders on the main panel. These posts lock in place using spring-loaded ball bearings -- much like the detentes on the F-stop wheel of a manual camera, only bigger. Too bad I can't find anything I just described. I want to be able to simply pull the top panel away, disconnect the wiring harness and replace it with another panel. (The second panel will be for my spyhunter yoke). Cabinet gurus -- any advice? Rockler tools didn't yield anything appropriate. |
| AlanS17:
You probably won't like the idea, but I swear that velcro is strong enough to do the job. There aree lots of different kinds of velcro now, too. They even have one strong enough to adhere to brick. If you're afraid of a gap or seeing the velcro, cut a channel into the lower control panel for the upper control panel to fit into. If you're worried about the velcro having better grip than it s adhesive and pulling apart, staple or tack the pieces to their own respective panels. And be sure to let the adhesive cure before you start sticking pieces together and pulling them apart. |
| NoOne=NBA=:
I tried velcro on my modular system, and didn't like it. It held well enough vertically, but it let the modules kind of wiggle in place a bit on the nap of the "loop" side. |
| AlanS17:
That problem wouldn't exist if the CP sat in a groove, though. |
| NoOne=NBA=:
It still had some give vertically, but didn't come completely off, the way I thought it would before trying it. I haven't found any way around that. The fuzzy part of the velcro is...fuzzy. The fuzz may HOLD, but it will give some before it gets a good enough bite on the hook part. |
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