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Gorrila Glue = No Bolts for joys
acevedor2:
I did get that it was a joke, and the reply was my attempt at the same.....
Cheers.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: acevedor2 on January 08, 2007, 09:59:07 pm ---One question would be how do you recess the holes for the T-nuts. Which bit and what jig. Or would you just try and free hand. I guess I am just a little daunted by the fact that I will be trying to route a recess about 1/2 wide and about 1/16 of an inch deep so the t-nuts fit flush. Does anyone have a good jig setup idea for for this?
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I used a simple wood drill. Well 3 actually. With decreasing diameter, one for the recess of the top, one for the threaded part of the nut and one (entirely through the wood) for the bolt. The biggest one was a spade bit and the other two are standard drill bits.
acevedor2:
Thanks. I appreciate the info. Spade bit sounds like the way to go for the nut itself. Any thoughts on how to mount the trigger joy flush? Again, the metal plate must be mounted from the top, and even if recessed will need a bolt going down through the top.
patrickl:
I'm not familiar with the "trigger stick" that you are using. I guess most (if not all) joysticks were designed to be mounted under a metal CP. Is there a problem with the handle length? Or you don't want to take it apart to mount it?
I "mid" mounted my happs galaga/ms pacman reuninon. I put the stick between two layers of wood. The top layer had the t-nut and the bottom layer was routed out from the top. So it is sandwiched between the layers of wood. The screws bond the layers of wood together so it is strong anyway.
I wanted it to have artwork on top with no bolts showing, have the ability to be taken apart and the galaga/ms pac has a short handle. The short handle makes people say it can only be mounted in a metal mounting plate. Mine works fine in a wood CP. But then I don't like the stick so it was useless anyway :-[
acevedor2:
Because of the design of the trigger joy, it is designed to be mounted from the top - (see below). You can see by the design that there really is no way to mount it from the bottom.
Right now I am exploring 2 options:
Recess the top enough so that the cariage bolt heads are flush with the top. This will work, but will then require me fill or place some kind of material to fill the distance between the plate and the CPO.
Option 2 is to countersink the bolt holesa little so that flat head bolts will sit flush. This might be doable, but will be tricky because the factory holes that exist for the bolts are for square.