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severdhed:

my cabinet was a bit different than yours, but it also had a small control panel in it...i cut out part of the cabinet sides in order to accomodate a larger panel.


it isnt done yet, but you can check out a few pics of the process....

http://www.severdhed.com/



Vigo:

Animeka, is cutting your machine an option for you? If so, I would go with severedhed's approach, if not, you are going to have space issues, and will have to do either a tiered approach like kremmit suggested. I once tried to make a deluxe control panel on a 4 player cabinet, and there wasn't enough room. (I wanted a 3 inch trackball though). I'm going with swappable control panels now. You may just want to make a control panel that just spills over and you just need to be careful about weight distribution (make sure that you will not put pressure too close to the front of the control panel). With some effort and thought though, you cold probably do something like this without cutting into your cab.

Animeka:


--- Quote from: Vigo on July 25, 2006, 12:57:09 pm ---Animeka, is cutting your machine an option for you? If so, I would go with severedhed's approach, if not, you are going to have space issues, and will have to do either a tiered approach like kremmit suggested. I once tried to make a deluxe control panel on a 4 player cabinet, and there wasn't enough room. (I wanted a 3 inch trackball though). I'm going with swappable control panels now. You may just want to make a control panel that just spills over and you just need to be careful about weight distribution (make sure that you will not put pressure too close to the front of the control panel). With some effort and thought though, you cold probably do something like this without cutting into your cab.

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Cutting could be an option but more of a last resort... I'm gonna see if I can fit the spinner and 4 way on my current panel, and then build an "add-on" for the 3" tball...

I really dont want a square box, that's for sure so both suggestions look good to me so far...

Keep em coming! If anyone has pix of a similar cab with a job like i'm looking at doing, I'd like to see real life examples :)

Marc

jelwell:

I never said it was pretty:
http://singleclick.com/gallery/v/Joe-Elwell/album324/DSC06514.jpg.html

You can see that I basically used a couple of L-Brackets to affix a base board to hold the weight of the monstrous control panel. The control panel is cut to the exact width of my old control panel (for the top 4 inches or so) so that it fits right in place (even using the same screw holes) as the old panel.

You can also see that I didn't cut the sides or front (or anything) of the old cabinet. The new control panel rests ontop of the existing structure - including the t-molded sides of the cabinet!

There are ton of other photos in that album that show you what it looks like with out the control panel as well as with the control panel properly mounted.

Here's what the old control panel (still in my garage) looked like:
http://singleclick.com/gallery/v/Joe-Elwell/album220/DSC04544.jpg.html

Joseph Elwell.

Animeka:

rofl... that's exactly the same kind of panel i have... (the metal one). Do you enjoy your cab more with an all-in-one setup? :)

Thanks for the pictures... Gives me ideas, exactly what I need :)

Marc

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