Well I reckon I am finished now, I put in the replacement microswitch with the actuator into the gear stick (seems to work much better now) put the button bracket in so there is now complete control to the cab from this (mame, mamewah - Red button for power, orange for service, yellow for the tab menu in mame, white to escape menu in mame or game, other controls on CP get used too) added my own layout to mamewah (which after testing a few front-end's was the one that worked best for the cab)
So a big thankyou to all who helped me get to this point, special thankyou to arcadefever, shardian, Stobe who helped in getting the cab to a working state and a shout out to all member's who make this forum such a great place to visit.
Roll on the next project, Until someone does a chihiro emulator for OR2 I feel I need a fighter of some sort, wether it be mame or a dedicated cab.
Thank you all.
Regards.