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Although I don't have the cabinet painted yet, I decided to work on the control panel.  I had a stand alone box with controls in it that I was using on a PC.  The box is going to be cannibalized and used for the control panel.  The problem I had with building the control panel is that I wanted to put too much on it.  My Defender cabinet is only 26" wide and the stand alone box was 32".  I had 2, 8-way joysticks, 6 buttons per player, a trackball with 2 buttons and one 4-way joystick.

The first step was to cut the wood for the control panel.  This may sound simple, but there were a couple of unknown angles I had to figure out.  Using trial and error, I found out that a 35 degree angle was perfect for the back of the control panel (which sets against the backglass) and a 10 degree angle was perfect for the front.  Once I had the panel cutout, I pulled out a ruler, a joystick and a pushbutton and started drawing.

Second Chance Arcade

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