Re: Modifying my metal control panel...

All I can do is mention one method I saw done once. I had bought a game
once that had NO holes in the panel because whoever was doing the
conversion had welded all of them shut! The panel had one heck of a
warp to it when not fastened down.

Would it be all that out of the question to take the original panel
(take everything off of it first) to someone that does sheet metal work
(or even the local community college) and having a NEW panel made?

Andrew Wilson wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I've got a JAMMA cab with a metal control panel that started out life as a
> Bad Dudes, then was converted to Cadash. When this was done, the operator
> just removed the buttons, replaced the control panel overlay, put a piece of
> plexi-glass over the control panel, and drilled holes for new buttons.
>
> I'm going to put in my William's Multigame in this cab, so I'm going to redo
> this control panel so it has a more friendly layout for Defender/Stargate,
> but I've got a couple of concerns:
>
> 1) I don't like having plexi glass on my control panel - it gets dirty, and
> stuff gets up underneath it that's hard to clean out (ick).
>
> 2) If I remove the plexi glass, I know the control panel is going to look
> like swiss cheese, and when I drill another 7 or 8 holes in it for the
> Defender layout buttons, there's gonna be almost nothing left. I can fill
> the empty holes with Bondo, but without anything to back them I'm afraid
> that the bondo will pop out if someone bangs on the control panel or
> something.
>
> Has anyone done something like this before on a *metal* control panel
> (replaced buttons and filled in the old holes)? One idea I had was to put
> the plexiglass on the *inside* of the control panel, but it still seems like
> the Bondo might still crack/pop out unless the backing is really strong.
> Putting some kind of sheet metal on the inside would work also, but I don't
> really know how I'd attach it to the control panel (I don't have a welder,
> and I'm not sure whether any kind of glue would work).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -atw
>
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Received on Sat Mar 30 11:42:06 2002