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Control Panel: Attaching
mahuti:
Lockdown clamps. Happ sells them. You may also be able to find them at your local hardware store. These can secure very tightly without much effort. The lockdown brackets are also rather cheap and easy to install.
M3talhead:
They can also go by the name "Suitcase-style latches".
Wade:
--- Quote from: mahuti on February 25, 2005, 11:23:50 am ---Lockdown clamps. Happ sells them. You may also be able to find them at your local hardware store. These can secure very tightly without much effort. The lockdown brackets are also rather cheap and easy to install.
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I agree, this is what most real arcade games use and it's for a good reason. Just reach into the coin door and flip the latches, CP comes off. Much easier than Wing Nuts (which is what I used on my CP, which is not normally removed - only for moving through doorways). At the time I hadn't seen or thought of the latches.
Wade
SteveJ34:
I took an approach similar to nipsmg with a piano hinged top on a control panel box which in turn rests on the ledge following a modified "Lusid" upright design.
Instead of have angle brackets or latches, I added (2) 2x2 braces across this area for added strength/support. I then drilled down through bottom of CP box and through these supports.
Added carriage bolts with wingnuts.
Easy to remove and sturdy as a rock when in place. Here's a lame paint pic...
SirPoonga:
See my WWW link. mine is held in place with two L brackets, 1 hinge, and my "shelf" which is getting redesigned to be flush with the top of the CP.
I can take better pics some time. hopefully I will remember.
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