Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: markronz on January 26, 2010, 06:13:09 pm
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I must be over thinking things today because I've asked more questions today, than I ever have...
Anyway, I purchased some wheels for my arcade machine. All four wheels swivel 360 degrees. Two of them have the little levers on the side of them to lock them, two of them have no lock lever.
Which wheels should I put in the front of the arcade machine? Originally I thought I should put the locking ones in the back, but then I started to think about it more and thought that it might make more sense for the locking ones to be in the front so that when people pound away on the controls, the more stable, locked, wheels are in the front, and hence theres less give to its movement.
Does anyone think it matters which side the locking wheels go? Or an I thinking too much?
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Locks in the front...just makes it easier to access...
Most cabs have enough weight, it would take some SERIOUS pounding to move it...
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I have two wheels that turn and two that don't. No locks at all.
I put the turning wheels in front, found it easier to "park" my cab in the right place against the wall that way.
I don't have a hardwood floor in the room where the cab is, it's some kind of vinyl floor.... The wheels are rubber and the weight
of the cab makes the vinyl compress and the cab "sink" down enough to hold it in place while playing. (We're talking about 2-3 millimeters i guess. No, there's no permanent marks on the floor.)
I really have to brace myself when I have to move the cab. Once your up out of the "holes" it's a lot easier to move it.