wanted: advice on my joust control panel

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I will try to get pics up tonite but I can describe it fairly well.

I have a joust cab that was converted to a street fighter, so it has a ton of buttons holes and some of them have intersected each other making very large holes.

I am going to make a jrok williams multigame out of it, should I just get a joust control panel with the standard buttons and start over on the control panel?

I am going to need to re-drill several holes for the multigame so I am not sure if filling in the current holes and then re-drilling where necessary is actually going to work.
 
It's a wood panel. It's not that tough to bondo the swiss-cheese and sand it all nice and smooth. Paint it black, drill your holes, and put your control panel overlay on....
 
thanks, that's what I wanted to know. I got a nice williams multi cpo from dj dns
I was thinking of the williams multi bezel, but the bezel and over glass I have are both nice so I may hold off on that.
 
It's a wood panel. It's not that tough to bondo the swiss-cheese and sand it all nice and smooth. Paint it black, drill your holes, and put your control panel overlay on....

:dito:

If you are really concerned about stability, you can rout a 1/16 of an inch or so off the and put on a steel or aluminum plate. I don't know if that was standard, but I have run into several Williams CPs that had them.

ken
 
I'm in the process of doing this now restoring my Joust, and it's the most unpleasant part of the restoration. My problems lie with the metal plate on top of the cp. So far, (first, removed the metal plate) I have filled old the holes with dowels, glued them with gorilla glue and bondo'd the gaps. Drilled some holes for bolts for the joysticks, then applied t-nuts from the top (making a recessed hole with a dremmel cutting tool, so the bolts are lower than the top of the cp). Filled the top of the t-nuts with bondo, sand, then applied the metal plate and bondo'd the holes. Now, I'm drilling the main joystick holes with a bi-metal hole saw. Then drilling the button holes in the metal plate only, then using a drill press with forstner (sp?) bits to drill 1-1/8" hole about 1/4" down, then 5/8" all they way through. This is because the Joust buttons are "short" instead of the "long" ones that are need for wood cps.

Sorry for the rambling, but I can't wait until I'm done with this part.....

I will try to get pics up tonite but I can describe it fairly well.

I have a joust cab that was converted to a street fighter, so it has a ton of buttons holes and some of them have intersected each other making very large holes.

I am going to make a jrok williams multigame out of it, should I just get a joust control panel with the standard buttons and start over on the control panel?

I am going to need to re-drill several holes for the multigame so I am not sure if filling in the current holes and then re-drilling where necessary is actually going to work.
 
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