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Locut0s:

--- Quote from: Thenasty on October 05, 2004, 09:07:41 am ---they probably pu some sort of a street fighter type game in there. Looking at your pics, I don't see the 12th button, its all leaft switch, did you replace it before taking a snap ?

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You're probably right about someone atempting to turn it into a SF cab at some point. I didn't have any good shots of the button in question above. Here is a closeup of the button I'm talking about, it's the one in the very foreground. As you can see they've mounted a micro switch sideways and modified the leaf switch so that pressing the button causes the metal arm of the leaf switch to depress the actuator on the micro switch. Kind of a jerry rigged set up. You can also see some of the bad wiring here.

daywane:
stay with leafs. If you wanted to go to switches your button holes are not the right size. Micro switch button holes I have found out to be larger. I wanted to see the leaf turned into a switch I have not seen this.
Oops the pic did not load for me the first time. Hmm a new hack to me.
leafs can be a bit expensive if you do not shop around. I needed 4 leafs for my Tron stick and every place wanted $8.00 each. I thought that was WAY to much. I found a bag full on ebay for $4.00 . I was able to replace all my leafs on Mspac and fix my Tron stick and have about 6 left over.
also do not try to clean your switches with sand paper. I use a crisp dollar bill
put the dollar between the contacts , push the button and pull the dollar out. do this a few times and you should be fine.

Locut0s:

--- Quote from: daywane on October 06, 2004, 09:07:13 am ---stay with leafs. If you wanted to go to switches your button holes are not the right size. Micro switch button holes I have found out to be larger. I wanted to see the leaf turned into a switch I have not seen this.
Oops the pic did not load for me the first time. Hmm a new hack to me.
leafs can be a bit expensive if you do not shop around. I needed 4 leafs for my Tron stick and every place wanted $8.00 each. I thought that was WAY to much. I found a bag full on ebay for $4.00 . I was able to replace all my leafs on Mspac and fix my Tron stick and have about 6 left over.
also do not try to clean your switches with sand paper. I use a crisp dollar bill
put the dollar between the contacts , push the button and pull the dollar out. do this a few times and you should be fine.

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Thanks for the heads up on the socket size being different between leaf and micro switches. And also the tip about cleaning the contatcs. :)

I haven't entirely made up my mind if I'm even going to keep this control panel at all. I've been thinking more and more the past few days of junking the entire control panel and building a custome one from wood, this one is metal. Not only would I get all new controls but I could customize the layout, number of buttons, and paint/(graphics art). I'll have to see how things go once I get the IPAC in the mail. I'll jook it up to the current controls and do a couple of test plays on my fathers laptop and see how things go.

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