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Anyone use COLORED bolts?
dag2000:
--- Quote from: BillyJack on April 29, 2003, 12:06:30 pm ---huh huh... you said "pull the nuts off..." huh huh...
sorry, nothing to add here, just being an ass.
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LMAO - soda flying out my nostrils!
heh - heh
paulkortne:
The skateboard bolts fit great in my Happ Comp. Joystick. I countersunk them without having to do anything other than tighten them until i liked how far into the wood they got.
Also, skateboard bolts are a hell of a lot easier to remove from Lexan than carrage bolts are.
shmokes:
Kick ass! I'm using them. That's all there is to it. I think Howard is right that one day I will want to make a change. At that time it'll be a pain in the ass to tear the laminate off to get at my trackball mounting plate and I'll have to start with a brand new piece of wood (probably would have had to do that anyway), so here's hoping that it turns out cool and my tastes remain static for at least a year or two.
Grasshopper:
I'm thinking of countersinking because it looks neater. I agree with shmokes very few modern arcade machines have bolts that show.
Also it's possible that if you put the bolts through the plexiglass and over-tighten them you could crack the plexiglass.
I am toying with the idea of pushing the bolts through the underside of the panel and them fixing them to the top of the panel with countersunk T-Nuts. I'm wondering whether anyone else has tried this. Would it be strong enough?
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shmokes:
Are all of those long enough? They are all 1" and the shortest bolts Bob Roberts sells are 1 1/4". He also sells 2" bolts.