Coming soon! (720 in Paperboy cab)

cmjb13

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Picked up a Championship Sprint cab earlier this year. I've got boards and controller to swap in Paperboy.

Now we do 720.
 

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Or buy the combo for 12K;)
 

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Finally finished.

I needed the board set, joystick, harness, and control panel.

I had priced out getting a panel made out of metal, plastic, and wood. All were much more expensive than I wanted to spend. So I decided I had to make one myself. Got some wood cut from Home Depot, glued 2 pieces together and fastened with L brackets. Screwed 3 steel tie plates to the bottom piece which allowed it fit into the cabinet slot. Primed with black rustoleum spray paint. Installed catches made from sheet metal to keep panel in place.

Installed custom overlay and marquee from Escape pod (another conversation for another day). Drilled holes for joystick from template created from scrap wood. I had to drill a larger joystick hole to account for a thicker panel which would allow the joystick to rotate fully without scraping the edges.

Had to glue a hex nut to each leaf switch button due to the panel thickness and the button not reaching the leaf switch.

Used a soldering iron to trim some excess off the bottom of the leaf switch holders to allow the nut to tighten around the leaf switch button.

Had to order longer leaf switch buttons as I mistakenly ordered the shorter ones. (microswitches came with the harness)

It turns out that when I had all this done, the joystick wouldn't fit into the control panel. I didn't account for the depth and location of the joystick. So I had to scrap the piece and start over. Grrrr….Fortunately, I had another overlay due to a mail delay (Escape pod sent a replacement when my original order got delayed). But the replacement overlay graphics were off on the buttons so I had to drill new holes and bondo the old. Double Grrrr. I was not going to do a 3rd piece or get a 3rd replacement overlay. The joystick hole was going to be over the instructions one way or another.

Strangely, I had to install the joystick backwards from how it's normally installed in the dedicated cab. The dedicated cab had the joystick opto pcb facing the player. I had to face it towards the monitor. Before doing this, up was down and left was right. Aligning it backwards fixed the direction issue.

Not perfect, but was never meant to be. I'm pretty happy with it.
 

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So when are we getting the viewing pleasure of Paperboy in a 720 cab?
 
Well, someone better get on it. That project is not for me.
 
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