Messy holes

[Dexter]

Hi all,

My first attempt at drilling through plastic on my net city cab has been a bit of a disaster. I need something to fit between the happ competition buttons and the plastic panel itself to hide the sloppy cuts (i.e. holes are slightly oval and you can see a gap when button is fitted.)

Any suggestions? I normally drill wood and get it spot on.

Dexter

[somunny]

Dremel out the hole in a joystick washer?

[SirPeale]

Not possible to start over?

Did you clamp the plexi down when you drilled?

[Franco B]

Could make you some button bezels.  Any width/diameter/bore etc.

[Visitor Q]

^^^ Those look nice.

[Statsman1]

I had the same problem drilling the button holes through 3/4" MDF - I thought I'd be smart and drill from the back, but when it went through the front, it split some of the MDF away from the spaces in between the holes.

I had nothing to lose, so I threw in some of this really thin spackle stuff, let it dry, sanded it, did it again, and it worked out very nicely.  It was 2 days from first spackle to finished.

I was just too stubborn to give up on the CP board, even though it looked ugly.

[Necro]

Stats, did you drill through the MDF into something else? (have a backing board) when you did this or just a cut to open air?

[Ginsu Victim]

My suggestion was going to be:
Talk to Franco B.

He got here first.

[CCM]

Hi all,

My first attempt at drilling through plastic on my net city cab has been a bit of a disaster. I need something to fit between the happ competition buttons and the plastic panel itself to hide the sloppy cuts (i.e. holes are slightly oval and you can see a gap when button is fitted.)

Any suggestions? I normally drill wood and get it spot on.

Dexter

hmmm, this wasn't what I was expecting when I read the title...

[Statsman1]

Stats, did you drill through the MDF into something else? (have a backing board) when you did this or just a cut to open air?

I cut into open air - braced on a worktable, but I drilled down into open space below the board.

I suppose a backing board would have helped too.  I wanted to make sure I wasn't leaning full-force on the drill when it went through (my first arcade cabinet, I did that, and my whole arm went through it and blew it to smithereens.), so I probably wasn't doing it 100% correctly from the beginning.

I did learn, though, that once the tip of the spade bit goes through the other side, to flip the board over and complete the hole from from the front.  That seemed to help. 

A backing board would have been the smart thing, now that you mention it.

[ChadTower]

^^^ Those look nice.

Wow you ain't kidding.  I dig it.

[Ginsu Victim]

hmmm, this wasn't what I was expecting when I read the title...

Yeah, I hope he didn't google "messy holes" before asking here.

[Necro]

hmmm, this wasn't what I was expecting when I read the title...

Yeah, I hope he didn't google "messy holes" before asking here.

Same, was pretty sure this belonged in EE and was NSFW.

[PsychoAU]

Same, was pretty sure this belonged in EE and was NSFW.

That's what she said?  eh, I got nothin'

[Dexter]

Cheers peeps,

It wasn`t the panel, its  the lower control box so theres no way to use a backing board!

PMing francob. Cheers man!