Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: markb on May 05, 2005, 03:18:28 pm
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On a recent refurb of my cab I used a couple of old Hard Disk Drive plattens spray painted black as dust washers around the joysticks.
Anyone else here used anything out of the ordinary in their cab construction?
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Green paint..
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I used a replacement door lock post as an extension volume knob for my speakers.
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My tiny pea-like brain. It's hurted.
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I live in Lowell in an apt building. I have this awesome custom pinball machine I built myself, and I put a little dog in the machine. Every time the ball hits a target, the dog gets zapped. Every time you hit a flipper, the dog gets zapped. The result is hours of nonstop yapping. It rules.
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I live in Lowell in an apt building.
Hey! Where in Lowell do you live? I live in Lowell!
Like, WACK
-sab
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Right next door to MR C (yeah, yeah, it spoils the joke but I don't actually live in Lowell).
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:o :o :-X
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four 408 ball races and a tamiya planetary drive motor
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four 408 ball races and a tamiya planetary drive motor
Sorry to correct you Danny but they were actually 608's.
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I used little plastic spacers out of an Erector Set to mount my iPac, and various other small PCBs.
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I used angle iron for mounting the monitor (and I'll be doing it again soon).
I also a "fat" plastic threaded pin to hold the steering wheel in place. I built the railing system for it from wood and U-channeling. So I could slide the thing in place and lock it with the pin.
... and I used posterboard for a rush-job marquee. :-[
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The pipe across the front for a foot rest.
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Steering extension shaft out of a massey ferguson combine.
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A cheap pen cut into half inch lengths as motherboard standoffs.
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Steering extension shaft out of a massey ferguson combine.
thats gotta win the prize!!
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four 408 ball races and a tamiya planetary drive motor
Sorry to correct you Danny but they were actually 608's.
dammit, youre right! soon i wont remember ANYTHING about my mame cab :'(
i already had to reverse engineer the rotating monitor circuit for someone. couldnt for the life of me remember how it worked!
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2 x 4's from a wall I knocked out of my house
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2 2" pvc pipe drain fittings spray painted black to make speaker grills
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Garlic-infused olive oil. It was the only thing I had handy to lubricate the shaft of an old joystick that had to have rust sanded off. It worked well and gave really smooth action....but you could still smell it for a couple of days! (this was early in my building past)
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A stainless steel ball and socket used for hip replacement surgery to allow the CP to rotate freely.
Yeah, so what if I didn't. I bet all of you guys reading that had your jaws hit the floor when you visualized it!
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Ultra-heavy duty brackets from a bed frame to mount my monitor in place...
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A stainless steel ball and socket used for hip replacement surgery to allow the CP to rotate freely.
really? or you pulling my leg
Yeah, so what if I didn't.
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really? or you pulling my leg
1) That is a TERRIBLEy funny pun
2) That fine print is the first thing you should read....for contracts OR posts!
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Imagine putting all of these bits together? It would probably look like something from the British Space programme. :D