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Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: gique on September 21, 2004, 04:38:00 pm

Title: japanese cab control panels
Post by: gique on September 21, 2004, 04:38:00 pm

a few people have expressed an interest in new metal control panels for their taito egrets..

I am going to start prototyping some laser cut aluminum panels for this purpose, initially i'll just be doing a small run of2 player 6 button / joystick versions, then probably moving on to versions to accomodate trackballs and other peripherals too...

If anyone's interested please let me know so I can get some initial numbers together, and if anyone else is in need of a panel for an existing japanese "sit down" (astro city etc.) cab let me know and i'll see what I can do..

This project is in its early tages, so may take a while to get off the ground, but I will be moving ahead with this soon!..

thanks all..

Title: Re:japanese cab control panels
Post by: Hoagie_one on September 21, 2004, 04:51:03 pm

i need a metal CP but it isnt a Japanese sit down.  Just need a blank, that i can drill to my specs

Title: Re:japanese cab control panels
Post by: gique on September 21, 2004, 05:27:51 pm

ideally I can only do runs of "production line" cabs.. I know very little about US cabs, so I was sticking to "sit down" cabs as I can't do one offs.....

Title: Re:japanese cab control panels
Post by: Shogun on September 21, 2004, 10:42:43 pm

Are you just talking about the steel plates or the entire CP housing? I once saw a guy redo the whole CP and I thought it was an awsome idea bu too hard for someone without the skills or connections (such as myself) to pull off. Of course I need to actually FIND and Egret first of course.

Heres a pic:

Title: Re:japanese cab control panels
Post by: dabone on September 22, 2004, 12:44:53 am

Still looking for a blank or new panel for my Super Neo 29.


(Stock pic.)

http://www.coinopexpress.com/products/machines/cabinets_only/Super_Neo_29_Cabinet_1661.html


If you can do them let me know, I had a sheet metal place try to make me some but the edges are not smooth.


Later,
dabone

Title: Re:japanese cab control panels
Post by: gique on September 22, 2004, 05:20:57 pm

I'm gonna do the egret panels first, to do any others will require the loan of a panel , or a scan (which would be hard to do)

I can only do the panels, recreating something like that cab panel is beyond my means..