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A Mame machine in an antique buffet - USB probs solved (I think!)
drventure:
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Wow! talk about some ideas! I wonder how long that guys been collecting stuff that have that big an assortment of bits to put together.
Very cool! Thanks for that link!
drventure:
Well, I've had basically no time to work on my project lately <sigh>
I did a little on a couple gauges, but that's about it.
I did however, just snag a pretty sweet deal on an AMBX system.
I got the full set, 2 lights, a wallwasher, 2 fans (not sure how or even if I'll use em), a wrist rumbler (I'm thinking that might be cool screwed to the underside of my CP), and even a dang subwoofer (this is the full multimedia system, which includes speakers and a sub, not just the lights.)
I don't really need the speakers and sub (my cab already has all that), but for the price, I couldn't pass it up. They may just have to be sacrificed to the arcade gods >:D
The thing works a treat. What's better, my test app I put together using the ambx hardware simulator works perfectly with it too, Under win7 64bit, no less.
As a side note, I happened across one of these at bestbuy recently
http://store.phantomdynamics.com/amdjmebar50r.html
BestBuy was wanting 150$ for the thing too. Um... No.
But I could really see that used to color wash the floor around a cab or the wall behind a cab. Surely there's cheaper alternatives (actually, the AMBX stuff looks to be a pretty decent cheaper alternative).
drventure:
I posted this over in the pinball forum as well, not sure which is more appropriate, but I thought I'd post the gist of the question here too, just in case anyone that's following my thread proper might have any ideas.
My cab has a pinball plunger for use with virtual pinball. Picked it up a while back on ebay.
Thing is it was all chrome, which didn't work right with my cab at all.
So I found a local guy that does brass plating. Well, long story short, that as more than 5 +months+ ago (when he told me the slowest he'd have it done by was 6 weeks!). Yeah, I was pretty much thinking I'd never see my parts again.
I finally resorted to pestering the hell out of the guy till he relented and finished them up, and I got them back.
Well, in all those 5 months, the guy NEVER thought to call me and tell me he couldn't plate the damn aluminum knob on the end of the plunger! Jeez, talk about great customer service!<sheesh>
Anyway, so now I have a nicely brass plated pinball plunger with an aluminum knob on the end!<urg>
So, here's want I +want+ to do.
I found a nice victorian style cabinet knob, standard screw mount.
So I'd like to take the aluminum knob off and put this on.
BUT, it looks like the aluminum knob has been hydraulically pressed on.
I could pull out an angle grinder and get it off, but then, given that the plunger rod looks like stainless steel, i'm not sure even IF I could drill and thread a hole in the end for a screw to mount the new knob.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Yvan256:
--- Quote from: drventure on May 07, 2010, 08:01:58 pm ---It looks like the aluminum knob has been hydraulically pressed on.
--- End quote ---
If you look at it, it seems to have pressed indentations to keep it in place. The good thing is, aluminium should be relatively easy to cut, but if you do there's a chance you'll cut the stainless steel rod too... My advice would be to go slowly while cutting, since you probably don't know how deep the rod goes inside the aluminium knob. Or you could just cut the whole thing where the aluminium ends and drill a hole for a bolt in the rod itself... but since I have no experience with such things, please take my advices with a grain of salt.
Benevolance:
I guess living with the little bit of silver as an accent colour is out of the question?
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