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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: wee beastie on November 14, 2002, 09:44:28 pm
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Hey guys,
Here's the situation. I'm trying to mount a 3" imperial trackball into 3/4 MDF. The trackball housing is about 8 inches wide, and shaped like a football if you look at it from the top. How can I mount this in MDF? Are the trakball mounting kits big enough (wider than 8 inches) to cut out a square that will fit the whole "footall shaped casing into it?
any help is appreciated!
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Hey guys,
Here's the situation. I'm trying to mount a 3" imperial trackball into 3/4 MDF. The trackball housing is about 8 inches wide, and shaped like a football if you look at it from the top. How can I mount this in MDF? Are the trakball mounting kits big enough (wider than 8 inches) to cut out a square that will fit the whole "footall shaped casing into it?
any help is appreciated!
I just recently mounted mine in 3/4" plywood, and I used a mounting plate... the one with squareholes andyou supply yer own carriabge bolts...
I cut the hole roughly in the shape of the football... In the upper right and lower left corner it's a little tight - i.e. there's not a lot of wood between the outer bolts and the hole the trackball housing is in... (i know.. a pic would be better sorry)... I used the drill bit for making button holes 1 1/8th inch hole saw bit... to "Start" the cut and then just dropped my jigsaw in and followed my traced outline as best I could...
does that help? I imagine if you make your square big enough to drop the tball housing in but small enough to not have the mounting bracket fall in/have wood to screw in the corners...
*Shrug(
rampy
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what are you measure from to make it 8" wide? I thought it was the standard 3" housing size so it can fit in machines with 3" trackball mounts:)
My wico and Happ 3" trackballs are about 7" wide. The trackball plate is 7.5" wide.
even looking at the picture
http://www.gatorcade.com/imperial.html
it looks like a normal trackball. you aren't measuring from point to point, are you? the sides are the flat sides. point to point is a diagnal on the trackball.
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rampy,
yes, thanks for the help. I guess I'll have to get a mounting plate. Did you get it from bobroberts.com or happs?
When I measured 8 wide, I meant from one end of the "football" to the other. Turns out the "football" doesn't mount horizontally like I thought, it's on a diagonal. So the football more resembles a square with opposite corners rounded. And 8 inches is the diagonal measurement
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When I measured 8 wide, I meant from one end of the "football" to the other. Turns out the "football" doesn't mount horizontally like I thought, it's on a diagonal. So the football more resembles a square with opposite corners rounded. And 8 inches is the diagonal measurement
I figured that's what you did. I am going to get the screwless mounting plate from happs someime, I don't like the screwheads in the way.
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rampy,
yes, thanks for the help. I guess I'll have to get a mounting plate. Did you get it from bobroberts.com or happs?
When I measured 8 wide, I meant from one end of the "football" to the other. Turns out the "football" doesn't mount horizontally like I thought, it's on a diagonal. So the football more resembles a square with opposite corners rounded. And 8 inches is the diagonal measurement
I went with happs as I need some other misc stuff that got me over the 25 buck limit... but the one bobroberts sells will work as well and he doesn't have a minimum order.
rampy