Mounting Frontline controller

[MannyTC]

Anybody have any tips and/or pics on mounting a frontline controller? I would especially like to know how you all got the knobs off. I have tried prying the thing off but an afraid of using too much force and breaking it. I don't see any kind of pin or set screw that holds it in.

[spidermonkey]

The knob is held on with a roll pin. The black plastic skirt disc just below the knob is probably covering it so you can't see it. Move it up or down to reveal the roll pin.If you don't have the correct size drift pin to punch it out then find a nail the same size and grind the point off so that it sits flat against the end of the roll pin. Do not try to use a pointed object to try to punch it out because it will just spread the hollow role pin and make it even tighter. Is your control panel metal or wood ? If its wood then you'll have to route it out from underneath or better yet make a square mounting plate similar to a trackball mounting plate but smaller. The controller was meant to mount to a metal control panel so it takes a little work to mount it to wood but it can be done. I just installed one in my cp recently.
Good luck  

[OSCAR]

There may have been revisions to the design, because the knob on my Frontline controller is molded right on the shaft.  There is no roll pin, set screw, nothing.  If your controller is like mine, then it is a little bit of work to disassemble the controller to take the shaft out.  I'd bet that the roll pin was added later, because it makes for a rather poor design without it.  Possibly Taito had more than one supplier for this controller, as well, and that may explain the difference.