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Title: blitz/MK type cab + big GT swing = hit glass?
Post by: rockin_rick on March 25, 2007, 12:30:01 pm

I am planning on making a blitz type cab and putting a trackball on the CP.  With the slight slope of the CP and the slope of the monitor glass, will your hand hit the glass when playing golden tee (or anything else)?  I'll put the ball as low (read: away from the glass) as possible on the CP, but that isn't much less than half way.  In the pic attached, it would be about where the middle two sticks are.

Can you adjust your playing to this?  Or will the glass always be in the way?

Thanks,
Rick

Title: Re: blitz/MK type cab + big GT swing = hit glass?
Post by: TOK on March 25, 2007, 12:41:31 pm

I think thats a perfect GT cab. The monitor glass is far away and sloped. This is the style cab most of them appear to be at the bars around me... So I'm told.   :D

Title: Re: blitz/MK type cab + big GT swing = hit glass?
Post by: squirrellydw on March 25, 2007, 02:21:26 pm

Just use your thumbs to spin the trackball.  The ball will go just as far.

Title: Re: blitz/MK type cab + big GT swing = hit glass?
Post by: rockin_rick on March 25, 2007, 03:19:15 pm

I don't have a problem using my thumbs, but you know there's always a friend who will want to do the 'normal' 'full swing'.  ::)  I'm just trying to account for all circumstances.

I guess what I am asking is if I should make the CP deeper, so that I can mount the ball further away from the glass.  I really really don't want to do this, as I want the cab to look as accurate as possible, and be able to use the unaltered CP top (along with my swappable others).  I will only consider making the CP larger if you will always hit the glass when doing a full swing and it is not possible to get your hand up in time.

Thanks for the insights,
Rick

Title: Re: blitz/MK type cab + big GT swing = hit glass?
Post by: Angry_Radish on March 25, 2007, 04:01:41 pm

I ended up shifting my trackball down about 3" to compensate for a few friends that insisted on making those huge "swings" in GT, made a huge difference!

Title: Re: blitz/MK type cab + big GT swing = hit glass?
Post by: mccoy178 on March 25, 2007, 07:56:34 pm

That cabinet is perfect.  Anyways, the people that I know who take the full swing always have a paw on the glass.  It's the joysticks and spinners you have to look out for. >:D

Title: Re: blitz/MK type cab + big GT swing = hit glass?
Post by: rockin_rick on March 26, 2007, 07:09:30 pm

Yeah, there won't be anything above the ball.  I wasn't even going to put buttons up there, but I wonder if I can get away with buttons, since the glass is right there, and you'd have to be lifting/arcing your hand upwards to match the slope of the glass anyway...

Quote from: Angry_Radish on March 25, 2007, 04:01:41 pm

I ended up shifting my trackball down about 3" to compensate for a few friends that insisted on making those huge "swings" in GT, made a huge difference!

3" down from where?  From where I was saying that I wanted to put mine?  Did you have to build a bigger CP box to shift it down?  Do you have a link/thread/pic?  How far is your ball away from the monitor glass, measuring down the CP to the edge of the ball?  Is this on a Blitz style cab?

Thanks,
Rick