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miles2912:

Route the top of your CP so the plate sits flush.  Same way most of us mount trackballs and the way I mounted my 4 way.  Check out the pic -4-way's mounting plate is nect to the hole.




Don

markrvp:


--- Quote from: miles2912 on January 11, 2007, 04:54:19 pm ---Route the top of your CP so the plate sits flush.  Same way most of us mount trackballs and the way I mounted my 4 way.  Check out the pic -4-way's mounting plate is nect to the hole.




Don

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DING, DING, DING - we have a winner.

You're going to HAVE TO remove the handle from the base at some point to put on your artwork, unless your planning to cut a hole big enough for the trigger stick in your artwork.

Route out enough space for the base ON TOP of the panel and then route it deep enough so that the top of your carriage bolts will be flush with the top of the panel.  Then use some type of filler on the top of the base to make it even with the top of the panel.  Even if you don't use a filler, you can NOT ADHERE the artwork to the base (to hide the recess and bolt tops).  Put plexi over the top of the artwork and no one will ever know. 

THIS IS HOW I MOUNTED MY ORIGINAL TRON TRIGGER STICK.

ChadTower:


--- Quote from: Peale on January 07, 2007, 10:21:31 am --- Little by little it *will* crack and break down, then one day when you're attempting a cool finishing move your joystick will suddenly just pop down inside your control panel.

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Hopefully he'll get lucky and the rabbit won't die.

Mattiekrome:


--- Quote from: acevedor2 on January 07, 2007, 01:10:37 pm ---Lew - what did you do - countersink the carriage bolts from the top and then recess the joy base in the bottom? 
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Judging by some of the pics in the "Show your CP thread", this is a fairly common mounting method?  I'm going to be putting an 8 way comp and a 4 way super in a small CP i'm making, and I found this thread while trying to figure out how to mount these things.

I'm just thinking though... I will have a a 5/8" MDF CP with a 1/8" sheet of Lexan on top.  If I recess the bottom of the CP by 1/4" then countersink the bolt holes y 1/4" on top, isnt that going to mean there is only 1/4" MDF actually holding on to these sticks?  Since so many people use this method, I would assume its still quite strong, but sort of makes me cringe...  After reading some other threads I'm now thinking of doing a 1/4"recess on the bottom with some T-nuts flush mounted on top.



Jdurg:

On my CP I'm mounting the joysticks and trackball from the top.  So I've routed out a good deal of the plywood from the top, and it still is quite strong.  Once the Joystick bases and the trackball plate have been installed, I'll be putting a solid piece of study cardboard or paper to flatten out the top.  The artwork will go on top of that, then the lexan on top of that.  The buttons will hold down everything and the bolts will be fully hidden.  This will work out just fine.

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