Main Restorations Software Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Everything Else Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements Monitor/Video GroovyMAME Merit/JVL Touchscreen Meet Up Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing Woodworking Software Support Forums Consoles Project Arcade Reviews
Automated Projects Artwork Frontend Support Forums Pinball Forum Discussion Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board controls.dat Linux Miscellaneous Arcade Wiki Discussion Old Archives
Lightguns Arcade1Up Try the site in https mode Site News

Unread posts | New Replies | Recent posts | Rules | Chatroom | Wiki | File Repository | RSS | Submit news

« previous next »
Pages: [1]
  
Go Down

Author Topic: Mounting a trackball flush with your CP  (Read 1510 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Magnet_Eye

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1011
  • Last login:May 11, 2020, 09:26:19 pm
  • Feel the heat?
    • Web Hosting deals for BYOAC Users!
Mounting a trackball flush with your CP
« on: March 16, 2003, 07:53:24 pm »
Hey, I want to mount my TB so its flush with the CP top, and only the ball shows. I dont want the damn TB Plate visible. I have a Happs TB plate. It is the older model.

Who has some wisdom in this area? I do remember someone routed out the CP and just glued the plate in. I don't reeally want to just glue it.

Thanks.
Logged
I offer discounted WEB HOSTING to BYOAC members! Only $2.49 a month for a FULL FEATURED account! www.cloud9media.com

Jakobud

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1962
  • Last login:June 30, 2025, 02:20:39 pm
Re:Mounting a trackball flush with your CP
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2003, 08:35:20 pm »
I determined the thickness of my mounting plate, then routed out an area in my CP that was that deep (or maybe slightly deeper).  Then i mounted the control panel using whatever nuts and bolts that it came with.  Then I covered my control panel with some graphic overlay (with the hole cut for the ball of course) and then plexiglass over that.  It looks and works absolutely perfectly.

It's a Happ 3" Highball trackball and the happs mounting plate.
Logged

MannyTC

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 44
  • Last login:May 12, 2003, 01:33:28 am
  • Jack Burton... Me!
Re:Mounting a trackball flush with your CP
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2003, 10:57:06 pm »
Quote from: Jakobud on March 16, 2003, 08:35:20 pm
I determined the thickness of my mounting plate, then routed out an area in my CP that was that deep (or maybe slightly deeper).  Then i mounted the control panel using whatever nuts and bolts that it came with.  Then I covered my control panel with some graphic overlay (with the hole cut for the ball of course) and then plexiglass over that.  It looks and works absolutely perfectly.

It's a Happ 3" Highball trackball and the happs mounting plate.

Jakobud, do you think that procedure you outlined would be good on a non-highball trackball? Would it stick out enough with the plexi over it?
Logged

TazMan

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 174
  • Last login:January 26, 2025, 03:30:01 pm
  • It's no easy being green.
    • What is the MAMEtrix?
Re:Mounting a trackball flush with your CP
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2003, 11:33:25 pm »
Previous Thread

This one may help answer some TB mounting ?'s
Logged
Pages: [1]
  
Go Up
« previous next »