Which leads us to today's progress; well I'm sure you remember my control panel design from yesterday. Today we got to test whether it will work (yes, thank goodness, wasn't looking forward to having to do that again!) and how everything would fit, so I now have a speaker shelf, an actual shelf for in the arcade, squared up the rear fan hole, as that had been roughly routed out prior to my getting the cab (the only thing I forgot to take a photo of!)
After today; unless you are highly competent with a router, I would very much recommend getting someone who is to do your routing, and any jigsaw work you need doing. I did have a go, but it takes me far longer than my neighbour and my workmanship is nowhere near as good as he is a master builder, so the majority of the credit for this has to go to him without a shadow of a doubt, so to photo's:
This is my neighbour using probably the most awesome tool I never knew even existed (a router) until a few days ago when I started researching how to lower the face of the wood so that the joysticks would sit higher in the cab! Definitely a credit to his trade, and if you have a construction project, you should hire him!
This is the finished control panel, even has the trackball mount in it already! That was the hard part, as you can see; the trackball isn't quite a simple square shape to fit in, as I had assumed in my measurements, that probably took us the longest out of everything we've done. Extra holes by the trackball L + R button keys are: P (pause) Esc (exit game) and Enter (Enter)... A must if you're going to hide the keyboard, which I am doing.
This is a test fit of the Sanwa joystick, looking very good, I was still a little worried about the height, but this is spot on for playing, definitely no need for a top mount, which makes me happy as the closest to seeing anything from the top will be the trackball panel, which unfortunately has to be there as to route out the required area would make the wood to thin to support the weight.
And finally; a test fit of the monitor bracket, monitor and monitor cover, yes, I took this whilst the arcade was in the shed, I forgot to take it prior to packing up for the day, and there was no way I was going to be pulling it back out of the shed for one photo! The project has already cost me a very bruised shin this morning just getting it out of the shed! Weighs a tonne, and is getting heavier now things are being added! Still not long until it can take up residence methinks.
that's all for now, possibly for a little while, as next weekend is a construction free weekend, and I need to order more bits (namely vinyl to cover this MDF).
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