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Finished (finally): Small metal control panel, Cyber pop style

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Timoe:
This is gonna be cool,

krutknut:
So far, I've ruined some weak metal cutters. The stainless steel metal sheets are apparently much tougher than normal steel sheets. This means that the tools will break unless they are made for 1.4 to 1.6 mm steel, even though the stainless steel sheet is only 1 mm.

To make the holes, I needed a powered screw driver, since a normal drill is too weak when its run slowly. I also needed to put a lot of weight down on the drill. The holes were expanded using the hole cutter, which cuts through the steel like butter.

These are some shots of the almost finished panel, as you see I've fixed the sides of the panel.

I made one mistake in the construction, by placing the hole for a start-button  on the front of the panel so that it collides with one of the normal buttons from the top of the panel. the IL buttons are very deep, several centimeters. Are there other, more shallow buttons that I could use? The panel hole is 28,3 cm, so the button cannot be smaller than that. I could make the hole bigger, of course.

krutknut:
I've installed the buttons, wires, and joystick. It looks great, and it is heavy enough.
Now, all I have to do is to play test it.
The final design lacks the start button, but has
* a six-button street fighter layout
* a four button neo-geo layout
* two pinball buttons
In total nine buttons.

Aurich:
Nice. Reminds me of a stick I built for my brother.

sosuke:
Aurich, you just gave me a great idea :)

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