actually it looks better ^^…lol
kojiro by all means you should that is exactly what happend to me. I sat around for days thinking what I could make my case out of. Wood,Plexi,Old car parts? lol Then i tought of my rrod’er that was sitting in my closet rotting its worthless corpse away. So I was last decided that was the case for me. I measured it out with the happ buttons being so long, and it worked.
Looks like I am not the first after all =( But I can say without a doubt that my craftmanship is better! =P I will almost bet my life that he super glued or hot glued that joystick in. There is no way to mount that thing with that thin of a surface area. Much less a thin plastic stuface area. POP rivits are FTW.
If anyone needs help or specs that I did for certain things by all means let me know your questions and I will tell you a step by step of what is needed or how to do it.
hadokn, It would be awesome if you could. Sadly even if you used the snap in pushbuttons there is not enough clearance inside the box to have them installed, much less the bottom of a joystick, Ya know?
His stick is corded, That makes running those couple leds he has muuuuuuch easier.
Some eye candy of my computer desk / Arcade table =P
Please dont mind the mess, I didnt have time to clean up.
o ya, xbox tops out in heavy gameplay @
38oC GPU
28oC CPU
I highly doubt that this xbox will suffer from RROD =) Infact… I dare it too.
Yea, I figured that there wouldn’t be enough space. Maybe if they one day made a 360 ‘slim’ you could try it then, but that’s more sony’s bag than Ms’s. Hey, isn’t that the money you could be saving on your car insurance? lol
How did you get that fan in there and is there an easy way I can do it to my xbox?
This is probably how its gonna look
strawberry apple sauce FTW!
LOL Yes that is the money you could be saving with geiko and that strawberry apple sauce came back out a hour after i ate it. :looney: Im feeling quite nausteous from the anesthisia and motion sickness hahahah. Any ways I mounted the xcm fan on the side of the hole i cut. Simple hot glue and voolahh. You could simply place the fan on top of the xbox trace a outline very tight to the edge and then simply dremel tool a little bit inside the line. Then run the wire inside the hole and mount fan the correct way (air pushing down) and hot glue that bad boy on there. That would be the easiest way I could tell ya.
When my 360 dies on me (which it will eventually) I’m going to do this…
O yeah, If you want the angle that I used for my push buttons I can tell you a very easy way to achieve the exact same setup.
You will need :
a piece of standard grid paper.
a circle stencil with the size 1 3/8’s
a pen
A center punch or scorer.
Start anywhere on the paper where you will have enough room for 6 buttons to fit.
Draw the first circle (make sure that the middel of the circle falls on a x and y axis of the grid paper.)
Mark the center of that circle, Now from that point, move up one line and right 6. Make a point there. Now draw your 1 3/8s circle around that to make the point dead center of that circle.
From that point move back down one line and right another six. Make your point and center the circle around it again.
This completes your top row of buttons and is also the closest you can put your buttons together without worrying about clearance issues and rigigity.
Re do the following steps to create a second temple of identical values, Then cut both pieces of paper out ( all three buttons on one strip of paper. DO NOT CUT EACH CIRCLE INDIVIDUALLY, that would defeat the purpose of this template.)
After cutting them both out (cut close to the edges of the circles so you have a better view of where they will lay.) lay them down on the area where you will be drilling. Tape them down just so that they will stay stationary. Adjust them to the most comfortable angle, I put mine at a slight left to right incline. ( this is most natural due to both hands wanting to pigeon toe inwards just as if your typing on a keyboard. Why most companys making sticks dont understand this or if they think it is cosmetically unsound if beyond me.) Take a metal tap punch or spring loaded score’r and mark the centers of each hole where you have made the points.
After this remove the papers and drill with a drill press with a 1 1/8 dill bit. Use a spade drill bit and not a saw circle. *NOTE take the process veryyyyy slow, Do not use much pressure. You want the friction to work with you in your favor other wise the drill bit will bite too much that it cant handle of the plastic and either brake it or snag and your xbox lid will be turning at 900rpms lol. Just go ms.daisy slow and it will work for the best.
Finish off the holes with a razor blade and light sandpaper.
Hope this helps you guys.
anyone intrested in doing a ps3 chassis stick?
VERY good craftsmanship. One of the coolest ones I’ve seen!
thank you sir.
Savage. Best use of a 360 I’ve seen yet.