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modessitt:
I will be doing a major repair job on a Star Wars Cockpit (it's beautiful, too) that a customer owns.  He had about 40 games in a warehouse that I do about 4 every couple weeks and take them to his software company's breakroom.

Don't know how long I'll have the game - and I won't be able to take it apart - but I might be able to take some pics and overlay measurements on them.  You can check out the Joust cocktail pics I've done to see how I lay out the measurements.

Not sure of the timeframe, but will be less than a month before I get it in the shop.  Doing a Tempest, Tron, Spyhunter, and Space Panic for him at the moment.  They're hurt bad.

So - it'll take a few weeks but it'll happen.  I'll try inside pics and measurements, too, if I can.  Pics are easy.  Measuring, then editing photos takes a while.
ChadTower:

So just get really good pics, take the measurements, and let someone else do the editing and the rest of it.
Patent Doc:
Modessitt

You are my hero...I've been trying to get measurements of this cab forever.  If it is not too much to ask...as the cab has many angles, when you take the measurements, please measure the distance to each point on the cab from a reference corner so the angles will be correct (I'm assuming you may not have a protractor to measure each angle).  This would be as opposed to just measuring the perimeter distances, width, and length.  Thank you so much for this future effort.

PatentDoc
rovingmind:
The majority of the outer panels are flat pieces and from interior shots they are not routed into the large side panels.  If the outside edges were measured and written on a photo of that panel along with the amount each corner was inset from the outer edge, plans for the entire cabinet could be drawn up accurately with autocad without dissassembly the cabinet.

the only panel that would need detailed measurement and parts removed to do so would be the one that the bezel goes over, along with its depth from the cockpit edge.

The seats are just plain rectangles to measure and insets would be fine for that.  All the internal braces could be figured after the panels were drawn in.

If you were able to get these measurements, I can start making an actual cab plan in autocad.

The bevel angles for the flat panels can all be calculated. 

That would leave just the plexiglass as the hard part to get right.

The only part that I would like to see photographed individually and measured is the inside of the canopy rib, but that could be calculated from its contact with the other panels if the cabinet isn't getting taken that far apart.

Any help you are able to give will be greatly appreciated and the drawings will get posted to Jakobuds site if he wants them, or mine for free download.



--- Quote from: modessitt on April 11, 2007, 01:17:42 am ---I will be doing a major repair job on a Star Wars Cockpit (it's beautiful, too) that a customer owns.  He had about 40 games in a warehouse that I do about 4 every couple weeks and take them to his software company's breakroom.

Don't know how long I'll have the game - and I won't be able to take it apart - but I might be able to take some pics and overlay measurements on them.  You can check out the Joust cocktail pics I've done to see how I lay out the measurements.

Not sure of the timeframe, but will be less than a month before I get it in the shop.  Doing a Tempest, Tron, Spyhunter, and Space Panic for him at the moment.  They're hurt bad.

So - it'll take a few weeks but it'll happen.  I'll try inside pics and measurements, too, if I can.  Pics are easy.  Measuring, then editing photos takes a while.

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modessitt:
No prob.  I usually do refernce measurements (so many inches down from this spot, then 90 degress out this many inches to the point needed) so people can get as accurate a measurement as they can.  I assume you want these in standard and not metric?

As I will have to pull the monitor as part of the repair (it's toasted) I will have plenty of access behind the bezel.  What about behind/under the seat and such?  As well as wheel placement and spacing from the floor and such.  As I pointed out in the Joust Cocktail thread that I've supplied pictures and measurements for, I tend to to give more information than originally asked (very detailed) only because, if I've had to go to all the trouble to get the game where I can measure one thing that was asked for, I might as well measure everything so I won't have to pull it out again.

I'll only have the cab for a week or so, and hope to start posting pics the day after I get it so that y'all can ask for more details of specific areas while I still have it.  When I'm ready to start posting pics, should I just add them to this already-getting-long thread, or should I start a new thread entitled "Star Wars Cockpit Measurements!!!!" ?
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