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Control panel building - How do you center joysticks?
northerngames:
I take the stick out and place the mount of the bottom of the control panel like it would normally be mounted and then take a black marker and run it around the edge of the mounting plate.
that way you can make sure all player control base's look straight and alighned with eachother afterwards
once there where you want to mount them I put the base back on in the now squared drawing to match up again now that I know there alighned right then take the same marker and dot each of the 4 screw hole's.
then I take a straight edge and draw a straight line from each of the screw dots left on the board with the assembly removed and you end up with a X shape and the center where the X meets is dead center of where your joystick shaft would be.
me I use a hole saw and just stick the drill bit right in the center of the X and drive it through.
I also take a smaller bit and pre-drill the 4 screw dots left on the board that way the new screws go in snug and correct instead of having them go in on an angle or spinning them so much trying to get them in that you bore the hole out too much with the screw threads where it dont sit right/tight.
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