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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: GregD on May 02, 2012, 04:25:23 pm
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Wondering if anyone has ever made a fake coin door out of MDF or something like that. I was thinking of giving it a shot using the Novagem coin drop replacement buttons. Can't find any threads about it. Thanks
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Whatever you do, don't get that godawful decal.
:stupid
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Whatever you do, don't get that godawful decal.
:laugh2:
I was going to post a link to the decal in question!
But, at the same time, a used coin door is cheaper/easier than trying to fake one ...
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I threw together something like that for "The Ping of Pong" build where I built a cab out of a ping pong table found in the neighbors trash and spare parts I had laying around. (cause that's the kind of stuff I do when normal people are watching tv)
The coin button is an 8-liner button with a homemade insert printed out on an injket printer.
The coin return is a square 8-liner button with the lense painted black and glued in backwards.
The plate they're mounted in is just a scrap piece of abs textured plastic I had.
It probably would have looked better had I just used a piece of metal or thin wood for the plate.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=166565;image)
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I remember Crashwg CNC'ed some mini coin doors out of MDF for a project by Jigenjuke:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=106894.msg1197500#msg1197500 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=106894.msg1197500#msg1197500)
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Whatever you do, don't get that godawful decal.
:stupid
I thought this thread would have been FOR that decal. Whew! that was a close one. :cheers:
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No decal. I am thinking a half inch pice of mdf routed out to give it some depth with novagems and some sort of fake coin returns. Painted with that hammered metal spray paint.
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For what it would cost to do something like that you could buy a real door... Mikesarcade has a full 2 slot door with mech and everything for $65. I think Happs even sells fake metal doors for like $25...
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Twisted Quarter does the small stripped down doors for $37
(no coin mechs, returns are riveted closed)
http://www.twistedquarter.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=171_173&products_id=245 (http://www.twistedquarter.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=171_173&products_id=245)
(http://i11.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/87/0e/9543_1.JPG)
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For what it would cost to do something like that you could buy a real door...
Isn't this forum about building things just because you can? ;D
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Put a kids toilet seat on instead ;D
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For what it would cost to do something like that you could buy a real door... Mikesarcade has a full 2 slot door with mech and everything for $65.
Not seeing it on their site? I see mechs but not full doors.... out of stock maybe...
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For what it would cost to do something like that you could buy a real door... Mikesarcade has a full 2 slot door with mech and everything for $65.
Not seeing it on their site? I see mechs but not full doors.... out of stock maybe...
Sorry... It was from twistedquarter.com and it was $69.99. But they have others cheaper... ;)
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If you're working 1:1 scale you could use 1/8th inch project board and route the raised outline of say an Atari over under then round all edges and glue that down to a template. The coin drops and returns could be carved very easily in the same manner. If you're working smaller then there are a lot of options, Bender uses styrene and I favor aluminum for mines.