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help! whats the best way to attach the top of the cp to my box (base)

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night:

im using dowels
drill it to be tight, cut the dowels to length, knock em in with a mallet, and put the CP on top and tap it down with a mallet. will hold quite snug and still come off easy enough

jakejake28:

apoxy keeps it down. cant pull that velcro off now for the life of me.  

AlanS17:

I'm gonna be having people play Golden Tee on mine so it has to be bullet proof. Nothing holds down better than good old-fashioned 2.5" screws for me. Plus with the curve around the front of my CP I don't even have the option of velcro or dowels. There just isn't enough surface area between the CP top and the base.

madk:

I also used velcro.  The good stuff holds strong during the most intense games.  It takes atleast 2 people to remove my panel.

hyiu:

holding down your panel top....

I used panel clamps....

a lot of arcade cab use a piano hinge on a side...
(so that it can be flipped open, and use a panel clamp on the other end....)

Happs sells them... they're VERY GOOD.... but its kinda expensive... you can try other places if they also have them...

for my last cab, I used only 4 panel clamps.... and its ROCK SOLID !!!!.....

ok.... a pic is worth 1000 words... hee hee....

but sorry... geocities cannot have direct link to the pic...
plz click the link and then click the following file name for the specific pic.... (towards the bottom...)

http://www.geocities.com/hyiu/pics/Arcade/Cab_and_Stick/

orig_cab_6.jpg

you can see clearly.... in the original cab, how they use a piano hinge and then 2 panel clamps to hold on to the whole control panel....

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now.... after I modded the whole thing....
I only used 4 panel clamps to hold up the panel top....

plz click on this pic (same directory...)
a_cp_mount2.jpg

you would see how I mount the clamps....

I hope this helps.... if you need more details, plz let me know....



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