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Mameotron:
Hey crashwg, did you ever get your stainless steel corner brackets?

A few years ago I used to order stainless steel blanks from a manufacturer pretty cheap.  They were 2" wide, 1/8" thick, and from 8" to 16" long.  They had six 1/4" holes drilled and countersunk at one end.  They were about $12 - $16 each, depending on length.

You could probably have a local welding shop make these into brackets for you cheap if you supply the material.  Labor rates around where I live are about $60 an hour, so as many as they can do in an hour (hopefully at least 6) would make your price $10 plus what you paid for the material.

GameDork:

--- Quote from: Mameotron on August 10, 2004, 05:30:17 am ---Hey crashwg, did you ever get your stainless steel corner brackets?

A few years ago I used to order stainless steel blanks from a manufacturer pretty cheap.  They were 2" wide, 1/8" thick, and from 8" to 16" long.  They had six 1/4" holes drilled and countersunk at one end.  They were about $12 - $16 each, depending on length.

You could probably have a local welding shop make these into brackets for you cheap if you supply the material.  Labor rates around where I live are about $60 an hour, so as many as they can do in an hour (hopefully at least 6) would make your price $10 plus what you paid for the material.

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I made him a joystick mounting plate and a couple of these DDR brackets to test out, not sure if the brackets  are thick enough yet..........

crashwg:
Just so everyone else knows (I have already been in contact with gamedork) I recieved the afformentioned corner brackets and mounting plate.

The metal used in the first test run of corner brackets seemed a little thin to me and we are currently working out exactly what thickness would be best and all is going well in that department.  Brandon has been an outstanding person to work with and knows how to keep a customer.

The mounting plate he has made for me looks great and I can't wait to put it to good use.  I designed it myself on autocad one night for my t-stick plus and shortly after came into contact with Brandon.  He quickly finished the product after I had given him the files and I recieved it very shortly after that.  It looks outstanding and he even painted it.  I haven't had the time to do all the routing that is necesarry to install it yet so I can't attest to how it functions, but how much function does it realy have anyway?  The only requirement it has is that the welds don't break...

Anyways, if that wasn't detailed enough for you I will be posting a full review of the mounting plate and the corner brackets in the next week (plate) or two (corners).

I'm pretty sure GameDork (Brandon) is willing to do other stuff similar to what he's doing for me, but I'd suggest waiting till the review is in, I don't want your project putting mine on the back burner ya know...  ;)

And if you too would like to have a mounting plate for your t-stick, I half no problems with Brandon using my plans again.

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