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Main => Driving & Racing Cabinets => Topic started by: telengard on October 25, 2016, 11:13:55 am

Title: Mounting wheel on standup cabinet at angle
Post by: telengard on October 25, 2016, 11:13:55 am: I have a pole position wheel, etc and would like to make a module for it to go on my cabinet (which has a modular control panel).

I'm looking for something like what is in this picture, is it something you can buy or has a name? My hours of searching hasn't turned up much.

Any ideas are appreciated!
Title: Re: Mounting wheel on standup cabinet at angle
Post by: BadMouth on October 25, 2016, 11:56:30 am: I'm not sure the part has a name.....

You'll have to look for used parts of games that originally had wheels mounted that way.
Usually 2 player versions of 360 degree wheel games.

Off the top of my head:
Championship Sprint 2 player
Ivan Stewart's Offroad 2 player
there are probably more.....

I have a spare badlands one, but it's smaller & cylindrical.
I doubt the Pole Position parts will fit in it.

EDIT: Great 1000 Mile Rally (otherwise known as Mille Miglia 2) looks like a good one
Atari APB
Title: Re: Mounting wheel on standup cabinet at angle
Post by: Howard_Casto on October 25, 2016, 11:58:51 am: I think it's just a wooden box iirc. It might be easier just to make one from scratch and then you'll know the pole position guts will fit inside.
Title: Re: Mounting wheel on standup cabinet at angle
Post by: BadMouth on October 25, 2016, 12:19:40 pm: This one looks like it has a good angle, but I can't figure out what game it is.
I did a reverse lookup on tineye and it didn't find the picture.

Anyone recognize it?

Edit: Still not sure of the artwork, but looks like the same one used on Great 1000 Mile Rally conversion kits. Probably a Happ part as Howard said, but I don't see anything like it on Happ's website. They do have the wheel.
Title: Re: Mounting wheel on standup cabinet at angle
Post by: Howard_Casto on October 25, 2016, 12:20:56 pm: I think that's a conversion of a generic dynamo to a midway game? Cruisin? So maybe check happs?
Title: Re: Mounting wheel on standup cabinet at angle
Post by: shaolindrunkard on October 25, 2016, 12:48:43 pm: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Happ-Steering-Wheel-Assy-for-Unknown-Arcade-Games-Atlanta-/152273167170?hash=item2374302342:g:2aAAAOSwvg9XestG (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Happ-Steering-Wheel-Assy-for-Unknown-Arcade-Games-Atlanta-/152273167170?hash=item2374302342:g:2aAAAOSwvg9XestG)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Happ-Steering-Wheel-Assy-for-Unknown-Arcade-Games-Atlanta-2-/391589682977?hash=item5b2c905f21:g:WBUAAOSwzJ5Xesue (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Happ-Steering-Wheel-Assy-for-Unknown-Arcade-Games-Atlanta-2-/391589682977?hash=item5b2c905f21:g:WBUAAOSwzJ5Xesue)
Title: Re: Mounting wheel on standup cabinet at angle
Post by: Howard_Casto on October 25, 2016, 12:54:59 pm: You probably aren't going to find a better deal than that. Also it worries me that I remembered that as wood when they are clearly pressed metal.
Title: Re: Mounting wheel on standup cabinet at angle
Post by: BadMouth on October 25, 2016, 03:02:22 pm: If I didn't hate playing driving games on a standup cabinet, I'd buy one of those out from under you! :angel:
Title: Re: Mounting wheel on standup cabinet at angle
Post by: shaolindrunkard on October 25, 2016, 03:47:45 pm: The seller has a "make offer" button on both of those so you might be able to negotiate an even better deal...