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Going w/ swappable metal CP's -- Have a couple of questions

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Animeka:

--- Quote from: gamecreature on July 19, 2006, 11:04:52 am ---I'm concerned about the stability as well. When I play some of my favorite two-stick games, the cabinet rocks!

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you guys are rough... We play SF2 fights and the panel has never moved or lifted...  :)

Marc

Ninten-doh:

--- Quote from: Animeka on July 19, 2006, 11:43:14 am ---you guys are rough... We play SF2 fights and the panel has never moved or lifted...  :)
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Well have you seen GameCreature's avatar?  That dude looks like he's pretty intense!   ;D

gamecreature:

--- Quote from: Ninten-doh on July 19, 2006, 12:43:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: Animeka on July 19, 2006, 11:43:14 am ---you guys are rough... We play SF2 fights and the panel has never moved or lifted...  :)
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Well have you seen GameCreature's avatar?  That dude looks like he's pretty intense!   ;D

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No quarter! None asked, none given! Arrrrrr!!!   :D

severdhed:
you could also hold the panel in place with magnets.  old computer harddrives are excellent sources of really strong magnets.  you could mount some of these inside the cabinet and they would be more then enough to hold a metal control panel in place.


Vigo:

--- Quote from: severdhed on July 19, 2006, 02:22:57 pm ---you could also hold the panel in place with magnets.  old computer harddrives are excellent sources of really strong magnets.  you could mount some of these inside the cabinet and they would be more then enough to hold a metal control panel in place.


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You could do that, but I personally wouldn't unless I was certain of what I was doing. I don't let magnets get anywhere near my PC or my monitor. THey don't mix very well.

I am actually working on a simiar method as you, Ninten-doh, and I am using control panel clamps that I am bolting it in to my cabinet. It should be just fine.

I am reminded of this last christmas however, when finishing a quick mame cab christmas present for my brother, I didn't have time, nor the resources to get the CP clamp to bolt in right so it aligned with the cabinet clamp.  What I ended up doing was taking a CP clamp, (the hook part) and epoxying it to the metal CP. Then, for added strength, I took some of the clay-like epoxy. and added about a quarter inch of it over the part that I epoxied on. There is a very horribly made diagram to show what I did.

THe epoxy job worked fine. I think I used JB weld, Since It was christmas, I didn't have a chance to shop around, so there might be better epoxy out there to use (or not). with a little patience, you can get multiple control panels on with the same cp clamps.

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