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I need steel (or aluminumā€¦as the one pictured is!) plates that I can embed into sticks to hold the sanwa buttons. Iā€™ve tried cutting them myself, but they turn out lousy every time. I know I want at least 3, possibly as many as 8 depending on the price per unit. I have 3 friends that I was doing sticks as christmas gifts and I ran into financial hardships. So this is going to be a ā€œChristmas in Julyā€ thing. :slight_smile:

Example:

Also, wanting to re-do the control panel for my arcade cabinet, and I did the plates for those and they turned out fugly. Rather let someone do it that knows what theyā€™re doing. :wink:

Iā€™ll consider a trade for the HotRod Joystick that I put up for sale here too. If weā€™re doing that though, Iā€™d want 10 plates in trade, or 3 plus 3 stick boxes.

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=133518

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numbski, let me reccomend something about those metal plates. I donā€™t think theyā€™re worth it. It works just as well for snapins or screwins if you just have wood underneath. Saves you A LOT of time and you only need to route out a small area underneath the wood assuming youā€™re using 3/4" in order to get the screw ins to fit. See timoeā€™s or paikā€™s stickā€™s pictures. It works fine.

With that in mind though. Iā€™d be willing to cut a few plates out for you for trade if your offer is still up in the next 4 ish weeks. Thatā€™s about when Iā€™ll be getting my drill press hopefully and I should be able to cut those out pretty quickly :).

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Iā€™ll keep that in mind. I agree about the routing. The issue I have is that I donā€™t actually own a router. I have a roto-zip, and several routing bits. For edge routing, this is fine. For precise depth-routing howeverā€¦itā€™s a pain. I can never get it to exactly the right depth. The answer is simple enough - buy a router.

The answer from my wife is simple enough: heck no. :smiley:

So life goes on. :wink:

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lol ^^. Makes sense enough, I cut off a (small) chunk of my finger with the router I got for my birthday lol.

You know. I swear everyone calls me crazy for this, but screwins hold in just find with a nice wad of hot glue.

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That leaves me tempted to find out what the threads are on sanwas and just get the right size tap. Just tap the threads into the wood, screw the button in. :slight_smile:

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hahaha :). Let me know if you find out :P.

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if youā€™re using screw-ins just use 1/4" inch wood/material for the topā€¦

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Does the trade for 10 metal plates, includes the stick shipping? Because I can do the job, but I think the shipping for that beautiful beast would kill me - postal code 6542309, Iā€™m in Chile.

Maybe if I send you, like 15 plates?

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Holy crap. Thatā€™s a heck of a bump (like I should talk!).

I donā€™t actually need these anymore. :stuck_out_tongue: I have a router.

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Damnit! Oh, wellā€¦ haha

I think you should ask a mod to close this thread then :stuck_out_tongue: