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Q's about flush-mounting joysticks
Timstuff:
I read somewhere that if you're going to flush-mount a joystick on your control panel, you're supposed to rout out a circle around the shaft hole, and have the joystick's disc-shaped dust cover underneath the control panel overlay or something like that. This confuses. me. CPOs are usually adhesive-backed, so wouldn't placing the joystick's dust cover underneath cause it to get stuck on the adhesive while you're moving it around? Or did I mis-read, and your'e supposed to route out the underside and place the dust cover under the fiber board? Someone please clarify. :)
NoOne=NBA=:
HERE is a link to Oscar's website, showing the absolute best way to do this.
You CAN put the dustwashers below the entire panel, but it leaves a really deep hole that way.
Most of the classic games had the CPO reverse printed on Lexan, and applied to a metal cover plate (Tron, most Williams games, etc...), or they were directly screenprinted onto the cover plate (Gorf, Zaxxon, etc...).
That let them put the dust washer between the top piece of metal, and the underlay of 3/4" plywood.
This kept it right up near the top, where it should be for the best finished look.
An alternate method to the one used by Oscar is to rout a recess around the joystick hole for a piece of metal or plex, put the dustwasher below that, and hold the cover plate in place with glue.
Once you have the plate secured, you can fill any gaps around the edge with a little wood filler, and sand them smooth.
I haven't actually gotten around to finishing any of mine like this yet, or I'd post pictures for you.
(Playable games, and additional controls, keep getting in the way).
IntruderAlert:
apply the CPO onto a thin sheet of plexi or aluminum
Timstuff:
I think I can see how they did it with the Oscar Controls example, but I want the plexiglass to be ontop of the CPO, not under it.
IntruderAlert:
you'd have to put another piece on top.
if you use 2 pieces of 1/16" you're still pretty thin
the Midway Blitz panel that I have has the CPO stuck to 1/16" thick aluminum and a 1/16" thick plexi on top
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