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| patrickl:
--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on January 27, 2008, 12:36:15 pm ---In any event, T-nuts are typically used for screws that are going to be removed or adjusted often. --- End quote --- Yes, but it's not always that the bolt goes in from the same side as where the nut went in. T-Nuts are also used in situations where the nut needs to remain put and where the nut is impossible (or hard) to reach after everything is installed. For instance climbing walls are full of T-nuts so they can rearrange the "rocks". The t-nuts are obviously installed on the back of the climbing wall. |
| tommy:
All original arcade cabs in the wild had carriage bolts holding joysticks down. Keep it that way. |
| MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: patrickl on January 27, 2008, 12:59:48 pm --- --- Quote from: MaximRecoil on January 27, 2008, 12:36:15 pm ---In any event, T-nuts are typically used for screws that are going to be removed or adjusted often. --- End quote --- Yes, but it's not always that the bolt goes in from the same side as where the nut went in. T-Nuts are also used in situations where the nut needs to remain put and where the nut is impossible (or hard) to reach after everything is installed. For instance climbing walls are full of T-nuts so they can rearrange the "rocks". The t-nuts are obviously installed on the back of the climbing wall. --- End quote --- I suppose it is a matter of perspective with regard to what is the normal or usual method of using a T-nut. I'm most familiar with them from speaker enclosure building, and they are always mounted on the same side as the screw in that context. |
| patrickl:
--- Quote from: tommy on January 27, 2008, 01:25:07 pm ---All original arcade cabs with metal control panels in the wild had carriage bolts holding joysticks down. Keep it that way. --- End quote --- Fixed Sure if you have a metal CP then a carriage bolt makes sense. That's where they actually work. On a wooden CP there is no need for a carriage bolt. |
| MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: patrickl on January 27, 2008, 01:31:39 pm --- --- Quote from: tommy on January 27, 2008, 01:25:07 pm ---All original arcade cabs with metal control panels in the wild had carriage bolts holding joysticks down. Keep it that way. --- End quote --- Fixed Sure if you have a metal CP then a carriage bolt makes sense. That's where they actually work. On a wooden CP there is no need for a carriage bolt. --- End quote --- Nintendo used plenty of carriage bolts on their wooden CP's, but not for mounting the joystick. Edit: And not all metal CP's used carriage bolts. Ikari Warriors comes to mind. |
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