PC10 Counter-Top Control Panel Upgrade

Orlandu81

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Hi Everyone!

I have posted variations of this on the original posts of the people who helped me get the parts I needed to complete this project. Sorry if you are seeing it too much!

I had an extra CP for the Playchoice countertop and wanted to re-do it like the full size arcade, so I replaced the Happ buttons with Nintendo buttons and replaced the non-ergo friendly joysticks with Nintendo 8-way arcade joysticks. See below for pics!

Thanks to:
Thorsten: For the mounting plates (no screw holes!!!)
Bill and Eddie: For designing the CPO and for selling me one, respectively
Tony and Joe: For your ideas, extra parts and assistance in executing this

I must tell you...as a person who plays my arcades a lot, I wasn't playing the countertop often because I did not like the feel of the original joysticks. Now it will be my favorite machine to look at AND play! I will keep the original panel and box it up for safe keeping, as it is fully original.

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Any pictures of how you mounted the joysticks?



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I had to disassemble the stick to install as the ball top wouldn't fit through the small hole in the CP. A friend made me a custom harness with the proper molex. The plates are glued on.
 
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Should see if there is interest to make repro panels. It's impossible to get parts for the stupid Vectrex sticks. And IIRC the buttons are different as well.
 
Should see if there is interest to make repro panels. It's impossible to get parts for the stupid Vectrex sticks. And IIRC the buttons are different as well.

I agree on the parts comment, but honestly the plates sold by the KLOV member in Europe took just minutes to glue on. The bigger problem is the lack of a decent CPO...as the misspelling and the non-matching colors are more noticeable zits to me.
 
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