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Q's about flush-mounting joysticks
Kremmit:
Why not rout your dustwasher recess into the bottom of the wood panel, rather than the top? That way, the dust washer would sit between the joystick base and the control panel wood, and you'd be able to remove it if you want, plus no messing about with empty spaces under your overlay.
IntruderAlert:
I like the idea of using two thin sheets
You won't have to worry about routing and cutting out washers, filling in cracks, etc.
Look at this post from another topic:
--- Quote from: IntruderAlert on April 28, 2005, 11:01:51 pm ---OK .. here's a pic of the 4 player BLITZ 99 CP
Notice the clean look
The dust washers are beneath the CPO
The CP is constructed of 3/4" plywood
The plexi is about 1/16" and
the CPO is printed on 1/16" aluminum giving about a 1/8" total thickness
Here is the reverse side of the CPO:
With the controls and CPO removed you can see that the dust washers are about 2 3/8" diameter
and a circle has been routered for them to fit down into below the CPO
the circle is about 1/8" deep and 3 5/16" diameter
holes have been drilled and circles have also been routered for those funky tubular nuts.. (whatever the heck you call them) for the mounting of the sticks
the holes for the sticks are about 1 7/16" diameter
hope this helps ;)
..as a side note it was interesting to see that the sticks were originally mounted with the connectors at the top instead of the left side
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hyiu:
--- Quote from: Timstuff on May 02, 2005, 03:05:14 pm ---That's actually a good idea, and I did consider it. But I'd like to find something a little better than paper. Paper deteriorates over time, and if it gets even a little wet it won't be happy. If I can get my hands on some thin, non-adhesive vinyle then that would probably be a great solution.
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instead of paper, there are a lot of other materials...
like those drawer liners... (they are plastic like... can withstand water... well... maybe not soaked...)
or something like those plastic thing that you use to laminate your id... (you know what I mean... not the BIG 4x8 laminate...) but like when you want to laminate a photo / id...
Kremmit:
Like this:
IntruderAlert:
once you stick down that CPO it's all over..
by applying it to a thin panel you can remove it any time
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