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Gamester:
What do you plan to use as the "fire" button when you're playing games with the spinner? The ergonomics of trying to use the P1 buttons might be a little weird. I followed the lead of many others on this site and actually put two buttons next to my spinner. At the very least, you should do a mock up and see what it feels like.
Looks like you're off to a good start...
spOOf:
It looked like several people just used the player 1 buttons for firing. But your're right, I should try this out and see. I certainly have room for it.
spOOf:
I've made some decent progress. Panel cut out and I rounded the front corners. I actually used a belt sander for this and it worked great. All of my plexi pieces are now cut. Speaker panel cut. And I got part of the bezel done. Also mounted the monitor. Things are going well.
I have a question about how to cut the trackball hole (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=95165.msg1001365). Any suggestions?
severdhed:
3 1/4" hole saw works great for the utrak
spOOf:
--- Quote from: Gamester on August 07, 2009, 01:16:26 am ---What do you plan to use as the "fire" button when you're playing games with the spinner? The ergonomics of trying to use the P1 buttons might be a little weird. I followed the lead of many others on this site and actually put two buttons next to my spinner. At the very least, you should do a mock up and see what it feels like.
Looks like you're off to a good start...
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I did a mockup and playing the player 1 fire button felt fine. So I drilled my button holes as is in my layout example. Still need to do the trackball hole (thanks severdhed for the info). And, I still need to do all holes in my plexi. I did a couple practice holes in a scrap piece of plexi and it didn't go great using my fostner bit. I'm thinking I'll go with your method of drilling a small hole and using the flush trim router bit to shave the rest off.