The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Artwork => Topic started by: jmarket on November 18, 2012, 02:11:19 pm
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What material do you use to cover your control panel? I do not plan on using plexi on top.
What material do you use to make your marquee that sticks to the plexi and allows light through?
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To protect the CP without plexi, choose a printer like GoG (http://www.gameongrafix.com/products/control-panel-custom-design) that offers polycarbonate lamination.
For the marquee, many printers like GoG (http://www.gameongrafix.com/products/Customer-Designed-Marquee) or Emdkay (http://emdkay.net/catalog/supply-your-artwork-marquee-p-118.html) offer adhesive backed translights. Some also offer reverse printing so you can mount it on the inside of a single piece of plexi.
Scott
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I've used Lamin-x clear 40mm with great success. Especially, useful for protecting artwork on control panels and covering curved surfaces where plexi wouldn't be a good option.
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I've used Lamin-x clear 40mm with great success. Especially, useful for protecting artwork on control panels and covering curved surfaces where plexi wouldn't be a good option.
Umm, you meant 40 mil, right? (0.040")
I'm all for making your system bulletproof, but I hope nobody's :whap on their CPO so much that they need 40mm of protection. ;D
Scott
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I've used Lamin-x clear 40mm with great success. Especially, useful for protecting artwork on control panels and covering curved surfaces where plexi wouldn't be a good option.
That's cool! Where do you get that stuff at?
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Lamin-X .com. You can get em by the roll or precut pieces for less. I use to use them for car headlight protection. Tough stuff. :cheers:
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Lamin-X .com. You can get em by the roll or precut pieces for less. I use to use them for car headlight protection. Tough stuff. :cheers:
You have a photo of that on a control panel? I'd love to see what it looks like.
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I've used Lamin-x clear 40mm with great success. Especially, useful for protecting artwork on control panels and covering curved surfaces where plexi wouldn't be a good option.
Umm, you meant 40 mil, right? (0.040")
I'm all for making your system bulletproof, but I hope nobody's :whap on their CPO so much that they need 40mm of protection. ;D
Scott
I have 30mm acrylic... I can get 100mm too :P
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I've used Lamin-x clear 40mm with great success. Especially, useful for protecting artwork on control panels and covering curved surfaces where plexi wouldn't be a good option.
Umm, you meant 40 mil, right? (0.040")
I'm all for making your system bulletproof, but I hope nobody's :whap on their CPO so much that they need 40mm of protection. ;D
Scott
;D
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Lamin-X .com. You can get em by the roll or precut pieces for less. I use to use them for car headlight protection. Tough stuff. :cheers:
You have a photo of that on a control panel? I'd love to see what it looks like.
(http://www.seebadan.com/forums/arcade/12.jpg)
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:cheers:
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Hi,
I will cover my control panel (in fact the polycarbonate sheet covering the panel itself) with a sheet of carbon fiber.