What tool does this? help

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Basically over the years of restoring wooden control panels ive seen this on almost all my control panels....

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what tool does that? I want to have one...let me know...thanks
 
is it? really?? lol i use the hole saw to make the hole for the buttons...

not to make holes but to cut on the wood to make it thinner to install like shorter buttons like the ones installed...
 
is it? really?? lol i use the hole saw to make the hole for the buttons...

not to make holes but to cut on the wood to make it thinner to install like shorter buttons like the ones installed...

Well, it could be any number of bits. The one most likely used would be a Spade Bit.

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Either that or a router.
 
I say spade bit too. Hole saw would kinda do it, but then you would have to do some chisel work afterwards. Either of them could to it though.
 
Typically, you will drill a hole that your button can fit through. Then you use a router to widen the bottom of the hole so your nut can have room to spin/tighten.
 
a router would be the best tool as mentioned. And the work can be done cleaner than the area with the buttons. It can actually look cleaner like the routed out section in the right side of your pic.
 
Or you can use a Forstner wood bit like this.
These work best in a drill press. Use a larger one to fit the nut,
and then the correct size for the button itself.
These work better than the spade bits. In my opinion.

Here is a good place to get them. They have a bunch of different sizes.
All the inbetween sizes that Lowe's and home Depot don't have.
I think I used item#9274 1-13/64" (30.6mm) for my space invaders panel.

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I don't understand why you'd bother. It'd be much easier to buy buttons which fit properly in the first place.

did you look at the pic? those are microswitch buttons. they dont make them short. without removing more material it doesnt look like they would have fit. they do not make a 3 inch microswitch button
 
Whatever they did, they did it wrong and didn't have the right tool for the job. Then again, getting a conversion up and running isn't fine woodworking either.
 
this is common on a lot of games I thought. I have seen quite a few that did this, I just got a rally x cocktail that had this done for the leaf switches, and I think my mortal kombat did it as well since the cp is about an inch thick
 
did you look at the pic? those are microswitch buttons. they dont make them short. without removing more material it doesnt look like they would have fit. they do not make a 3 inch microswitch button

they do actually make long and short microswitch buttons. most of the time when you see this it's because the buttons or joystick shaft isn't long enough for the wood panel. by removing the wood it then allows them to use short buttons and shorter sticks.
 
they do actually make long and short microswitch buttons. most of the time when you see this it's because the buttons or joystick shaft isn't long enough for the wood panel. by removing the wood it then allows them to use short buttons and shorter sticks.

whenever I have seen them, it didnt seem like a big enough difference to consider them apart? its usually like a quarter to half inch right? I havent seen anyone sell them labeled apart either like leaf switch buttons idk, I have seen this practice of routing bigger holes a lot though
 
whenever I have seen them, it didnt seem like a big enough difference to consider them apart? its usually like a quarter to half inch right? I havent seen anyone sell them labeled apart either like leaf switch buttons idk, I have seen this practice of routing bigger holes a lot though

yea it's not a big difference.

i've seen clip in ones as well like sanwa's

i honestly hate finding panels like this.
 
Then again, getting a conversion up and running isn't fine woodworking either.

True. This was most likely done buy an op who was converting a rare gem into a Street Fighter 2. They probably did the best with what they had laying around, both part and tool wise.

OP: Forstner drill bit in this situation will give you a flat bottom hole. Using a hole saw will just cut the ring and then you would have to go in with a router and cut out the inside. Forstner is the way to go.
 
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so i would have to use the forstner first then the hole saw? seems like that

and this is another big blue cabinet i picked up, its currently a MVC2 and it looks like this game use to be some 3 player game, all button holes and joystick mounts are intact so it would be a easy conversion back to AVP...

but i wanted to know what tool did it as i plan to make a whole new control panel for 2 player street fighter layout but using the same buttons as they are pretty good and i assume match the capcom color layout?

thanks robgest, gives me a clear idea now...
 
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so i would have to use the forstner first then the hole saw? seems like that

and this is another big blue cabinet i picked up, its currently a MVC2 and it looks like this game use to be some 3 player game, all button holes and joystick mounts are intact so it would be a easy conversion back to AVP...

but i wanted to know what tool did it as i plan to make a whole new control panel for 2 player street fighter layout but using the same buttons as they are pretty good and i assume match the capcom color layout?

thanks robgest, gives me a clear idea now...

If I had the Forstner set, that would be the way to go. But use the largest size first and then after you clean up the area, you would move to the 1 1/8 bit.
 
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