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Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: ids on February 21, 2008, 04:36:08 pm

Title: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: ids on February 21, 2008, 04:36:08 pm: I tried dreamarcades, but they have a min $75 order. I just want a pink ball-top joystick, maybe 3 pink buttons, and a few feet of t-molding. Would be willing to put in a group order with dreamarcades. Hoping to do this cheap - making a simple standalone CP for nieces.
Title: Re: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: waveryder on February 21, 2008, 04:40:38 pm: where are you located?
Title: Re: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: ids on February 21, 2008, 05:27:03 pm: Canada - Toronto area
Title: Re: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: Daniel B. on February 21, 2008, 07:26:12 pm: javeryh just MIGHT have some pink left over.

check out bellas arcade....
Title: Re: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: Kajoq on February 21, 2008, 09:58:13 pm: Lizardlick has pink parts
Title: Re: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: ids on February 22, 2008, 09:36:07 am: Thanks for the replies!

I've seen Bellas - an inspiration for my little project, and where I got the idea to check out DreamArcades. But I don't want to bother someone for a few buttons - though I can imagine having left over t-molding (they sell min 30').

I have also checked out LizardLick - they have a few options such as pink ball tops (ball only), and pink ball-top sticks (much more expensive than DreamArcades or a typical Happs Super). The pink buttons they have are for metal cp's (I forgot to mention I'll be doing the std 3/4" wood - or maybe 5/8" + 1/8"-plexi?)

Oh well, maybe I'll just add more stuff to my cart at DA so I hit the $75 threshold...

Thanks again.
Title: Re: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: Daniel B. on February 22, 2008, 10:15:20 am: ids, if you are good with a router, the sanwa's will fit wood cp's. If you check out timoe or kaytrims sticks, they do what I have mentioned.
Title: Re: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: Ninten-doh on February 22, 2008, 10:27:46 am: ids, I don't see the minimum order message on Dream Arcades site anymore. Maybe their shipping person is back from maternity leave? Either that or they weren't getting any orders. :P
Title: Re: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: shardian on February 22, 2008, 10:34:47 am: I have a pink balltop sanwa knockoff in the garage somewhere. Let me know if you would want it.
Title: Re: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: Kajoq on February 22, 2008, 10:53:11 am: If you do end up doing a plexi top, You can use the snap in buttons pretty easily, even without routing. Drill 1 1/4" holes in the wood, and 30mm holes in the plexi. The wood is there enough to support the plexi and buttons, but is far enough out of the way to let the buttons snap in properly

Without a plexi top and just 3/4" wood you could use the screw-in sanwas, and route out some of the wood on the backside and screw them down.

The sanwa ball-top sticks are godly btw, MUCH more precise of a feel to them than HAPPs. I grew up on HAPP and got a sanwa arcade stick a year or two ago, I would never go back to HAPP. Worth the extra 15 bucks in my opinion. Or you could get the cheaper JLW + pink balltop and it would only be ~8 dollars more than a Super/Competition

Heres a shot of my control panel with snap-ins + 3/4" MDF. And No the joystick is not mounted above the plexi, its just an illusion from the all black paint + glossy surface

(http://images30.fotki.com/v473/photos/7/77755/5275298/SSF2X006-vi.jpg?1191738448)
Title: Re: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: ids on February 22, 2008, 11:32:56 am: At DA, when I hit "GO TO PAYMENTS", I still get the maternity leave message with the $75 limit. Worst case: I might be able to find $75 worth of stuff to buy.

Shardian: How much for the pink-balltop sanwa knockoff? (is it worth your trouble to ship to canada?)

Daniel/Kajoq: Thanks for the info. If it were for myself, I'd spend the money - but this is for little girls (age 5 and 3) who may never know the difference (or worse - lose interest!). Thanks for the button mounting info - good to know I have such options. Nice panel - curious why you didn't hide the stick mounting plate. Guessing you painted the mdf, and thus have no overlay. For my own panel, am planning on using 1/4" chicago nuts (from Home Despot) routing and undermounting (like the one on left in this pic: http://www.ids.ca/~steve/mame/version2.jpg - a sloppy prototype)
Title: Re: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: Havok on February 23, 2008, 01:12:01 am: Oh! Arcade parts... Move along, nothing to see here...

;D
Title: Re: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: Kajoq on February 23, 2008, 01:35:41 pm: Yup, You're right about the mounting plate.... Have been too pre-occupied with other aspects of the cab to get an overlay done yet. I think I'm likely just going to get one of the capcom "metal" overlay stickers and toss it on.

And I completely understand not wanting to put a top end sanwa on a cab for 5 and 3 year olds : )

Good luck on your build and parts aquisition!
Title: Re: Wanted: Pink parts
Post by: ids on February 23, 2008, 09:17:08 pm: Quote from: Havok on February 23, 2008, 01:12:01 am
Oh! Arcade parts... Move along, nothing to see here...

;D

Uh...yeah, I guess I should have been more specific

Quote from: Kajoq on February 23, 2008, 01:35:41 pm
And I completely understand not wanting to put a top end sanwa on a cab for 5 and 3 year olds : )

Good luck on your build and parts aquisition!

Thanks! This is for the nieces, I hear they've shown interest in PacMan, and their dad was thinking a simple joystick is better than cursor keys, so... perhaps a single stick, 3 buttons, 1&2 plr start buttons and a coin button should do the trick for now.