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1st cab conversion (updated) / rework

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XeviouS:
Don't worry about the monitor sticking out of the back, just cut a hole in the wall that you will be pushing it up against. These are the kind of sacrifices that must be made in the name of Mame. (just don't move the unit into different parts of the house too often....)   :P

werdna:


as always hit http://www.flickr.com/photos/aalbinger for more and/or larger pics.

I have the tinted, tempered glass installed.  1st try at a bezel cut out.  I'll be cutting out another bezel before too long as I got a little sloppy on this one.



Still have to refinish/install the coin doors, find something to put on the top of the marquee and maybe someday sideart.

-Andrew

werdna:
I'm going to resurect this from the dead rather than starting another thread.  With my next project well underway it was time to scavenge parts off my 1st project and start redoing it.

The 8-way sticks are headed to the new project.  This machine is going to become a one player control panel with a trackball on the right, 4 buttons in a diamond pattern in the middle, and a 6 inch swappable panel on the left that will hold either an 8-way, my dedicated 4-way, a spinner, or whatever else comes along.

To that end I snagged a HAPP 3" off the buy-n-sell board here and dropped an order to GGG for buttons and an optiwiz.

The trackball showed up today.  I just placed the GGG order today.  While I do plan to use the optiwiz in this build I'm a very impatient man.  Sometimes being impatient is awesome.

Of all the things Radio Shack isn't anymore they did have this: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103251  Kind of great to just plug into the Happ connector with my madness.

werdna:
some progress on the new control panel.

werdna:
some more work on the initial try at swappable controls.

long term I need to use a table saw to make a more square insert board.  I intend to epoxy magnets into the underside of the boards to help hold them to the mending plates pictured.

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