Re: Modifying my metal control panel...

This is another good idea. Assuming I go the route of having a "backing"
piece of metal, this would be useful for holding the backing metal on, as
well as for filling the holes.

-atw
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bachmann, Joe C" <joe.c.bachmann@xo.com>
To: <rasterlist@synthcom.com>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:25 AM
Subject: RE: RASTER: Modifying my metal control panel...

> Have you considered using JB Weld to fill in the holes? You'd have to sand
> them down later. This is something that I am going to try..
>
> JB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodger Boots [mailto:rlboots@cedar-rapids.net]
> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 1:35 PM
> To: rasterlist@synthcom.com
> Subject: Re: RASTER: 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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