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Project #2: Pac-man from scratch
WunderCade:
--- Quote from: knave on July 27, 2007, 01:10:40 pm ---Hey alex, What did you use to make the CP.
Did you just glue the two boards together and then round it over with a router?
I want to make a new CP for my Ms. Pac and was thinking of having a metal one made...but yours turned out so good...
What is the finish on it?
Thanks
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Making a Ms. Pac-man CP out of wood would be much more challenging than the one refabricated here.
Afterall, the Pac-Man original CP is made out of wood so duplicating it with wood is easy, but the original Ms. Pac-man CP is made only of thin metal - no wood, so to try and craft it out of wood would be much much harder if you fabricate your cabinet to Ms.Pac specifications - the alignment would be off.
For example, the Pac, Ms. Pac control panels are not interchangeable on the machines.
knave:
--- Quote from: WunderCade on July 27, 2007, 03:17:44 pm ---Afterall, the Pac-Man original CP is made out of wood so duplicating it with wood is easy, but the original Ms. Pac-man CP is made only of thin metal - no wood,
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Well that's depressing. I wonder how much a Metal shop would charge to make me a few CP's?...I do have the original.
What type of shop should I try?
spystyle:
Call around to machinists, I bet you could get one made up for $30
I forget what gauge they are...
I cut a metal CP's button and stick holes with a punch before, but they are expensive, you might as well have the machinist do that.
Good luck,
Craig
p.s. I made my Pac cp from wood, I just routed it with a roundover bit
WunderCade:
--- Quote from: knave on July 27, 2007, 07:11:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: WunderCade on July 27, 2007, 03:17:44 pm ---Afterall, the Pac-Man original CP is made out of wood so duplicating it with wood is easy, but the original Ms. Pac-man CP is made only of thin metal - no wood,
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Well that's depressing. I wonder how much a Metal shop would charge to make me a few CP's?...I do have the original.
What type of shop should I try?
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You might consider an eBay purchase, here's a reasonable NOS Ms. Pac CP
prOk:
just fyi, pac and ms pac control panels are both metal, pac man with a wood backing behind the metal.
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