Author Topic: Most unusual item you have used in making your cab? (Read 1880 times)

markb · « **on:** May 05, 2005, 03:18:28 pm »

On a recent refurb of my cab I used a couple of old Hard Disk Drive plattens spray painted black as dust washers around the joysticks.

Anyone else here used anything out of the ordinary in their cab construction?

GGKoul · « **Reply #1 on:** May 05, 2005, 03:33:10 pm »

Green paint..

FractalWalk · « **Reply #2 on:** May 05, 2005, 03:34:23 pm »

I used a replacement door lock post as an extension volume knob for my speakers.

mr.Curmudgeon · « **Reply #3 on:** May 05, 2005, 04:02:21 pm »

My tiny pea-like brain. It's hurted.

ChadTower · « **Reply #4 on:** May 05, 2005, 04:05:34 pm »

I live in Lowell in an apt building. I have this awesome custom pinball machine I built myself, and I put a little dog in the machine. Every time the ball hits a target, the dog gets zapped. Every time you hit a flipper, the dog gets zapped. The result is hours of nonstop yapping. It rules.

screaming · « **Reply #5 on:** May 05, 2005, 04:12:17 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on May 05, 2005, 04:05:34 pm

I live in Lowell in an apt building.

Hey! Where in Lowell do you live? I live in Lowell!

Like, WACK

-sab

ChadTower · « **Reply #6 on:** May 05, 2005, 04:16:43 pm »

Right next door to MR C (yeah, yeah, it spoils the joke but I don't actually live in Lowell).

screaming · « **Reply #7 on:** May 05, 2005, 04:19:33 pm »

danny_galaga · « **Reply #8 on:** May 05, 2005, 09:14:35 pm »

four 408 ball races and a tamiya planetary drive motor

Bones · « **Reply #9 on:** May 06, 2005, 03:31:51 am »

Quote from: danny_galaga on May 05, 2005, 09:14:35 pm

four 408 ball races and a tamiya planetary drive motor

Sorry to correct you Danny but they were actually 608's.

Stingray · « **Reply #10 on:** May 06, 2005, 03:09:48 pm »

I used little plastic spacers out of an Erector Set to mount my iPac, and various other small PCBs.

-S

AlanS17 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 06, 2005, 03:15:53 pm »

I used angle iron for mounting the monitor (and I'll be doing it again soon).

I also a "fat" plastic threaded pin to hold the steering wheel in place. I built the railing system for it from wood and U-channeling. So I could slide the thing in place and lock it with the pin.

... and I used posterboard for a rush-job marquee.

SirPoonga · « **Reply #12 on:** May 06, 2005, 03:16:59 pm »

The pipe across the front for a foot rest.

Popcorrin · « **Reply #13 on:** May 06, 2005, 03:51:14 pm »

Steering extension shaft out of a massey ferguson combine.

Dire Radiant · « **Reply #14 on:** May 06, 2005, 03:59:26 pm »

A cheap pen cut into half inch lengths as motherboard standoffs.

danny_galaga · « **Reply #15 on:** May 06, 2005, 09:21:42 pm »

Quote from: Popcorrin on May 06, 2005, 03:51:14 pm

Steering extension shaft out of a massey ferguson combine.

thats gotta win the prize!!

danny_galaga · « **Reply #16 on:** May 06, 2005, 09:43:05 pm »

Quote from: BrokenBones1 on May 06, 2005, 03:31:51 am

Quote from: danny_galaga on May 05, 2005, 09:14:35 pm
four 408 ball races and a tamiya planetary drive motor
Sorry to correct you Danny but they were actually 608's.

dammit, youre right! soon i wont remember ANYTHING about my mame cab

i already had to reverse engineer the rotating monitor circuit for someone. couldnt for the life of me remember how it worked!

daywane · « **Reply #17 on:** May 07, 2005, 09:22:55 pm »

2 x 4's from a wall I knocked out of my house

edwardvci · « **Reply #18 on:** May 07, 2005, 09:52:28 pm »

2 2" pvc pipe drain fittings spray painted black to make speaker grills

Raven.. · « **Reply #19 on:** May 07, 2005, 10:02:28 pm »

Garlic-infused olive oil. It was the only thing I had handy to lubricate the shaft of an old joystick that had to have rust sanded off. It worked well and gave really smooth action....but you could still smell it for a couple of days! (this was early in my building past)

DrewKaree · « **Reply #20 on:** May 07, 2005, 10:03:27 pm »

A stainless steel ball and socket used for hip replacement surgery to allow the CP to rotate freely.

Yeah, so what if I didn't. I bet all of you guys reading that had your jaws hit the floor when you visualized it!

EndTwist · « **Reply #21 on:** May 08, 2005, 12:02:47 am »

Ultra-heavy duty brackets from a bed frame to mount my monitor in place...

daywane · « **Reply #22 on:** May 08, 2005, 01:32:28 am »

Quote from: DrewKaree on May 07, 2005, 10:03:27 pm

A stainless steel ball and socket used for hip replacement surgery to allow the CP to rotate freely.

really? or you pulling my leg

Yeah, so what if I didn't.

DrewKaree · « **Reply #23 on:** May 08, 2005, 01:47:11 am »

Quote from: daywane on May 08, 2005, 01:32:28 am

really? or you pulling my leg

1) That is a TERRIBLE_{y funny} pun

2) That fine print is the first thing you should read....for contracts OR posts!

markb · « **Reply #24 on:** May 08, 2005, 08:54:51 am »

Imagine putting all of these bits together? It would probably look like something from the British Space programme.


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