{"id":408,"date":"2008-10-20T21:53:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T00:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pealefamily.net\/tech\/arcade\/?p=408"},"modified":"2011-01-03T10:25:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T10:25:16","slug":"creativity-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Creativity at its best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to get creative with the control panel.  Getting a new panel was too expensive on my shoestring budget.  Since a lot of the &#8220;meat&#8221; of the panel was missing anyway, I decided to turn this to my advantage.<\/p>\n<p>An old operator trick is to use plexi\/Lexan to mount controls\/buttons\/whatnot to instead of mounting to the metal, mainly because games would be converted so many times there wasn&#8217;t anything to stick to.  So that&#8217;s what I did.  No, the button isn&#8217;t floating in air!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-409\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/arcade\/?attachment_id=409\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-409\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\".\/wp-content\/uploads\/bowlcp.jpg\" alt=\"Capcom Bowl conversion control panel\" title=\"Capcom Bowl conversion control panel\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-409\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capcom Bowl conversion control panel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And a shot of it with the vinyl covering.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-410\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/arcade\/?attachment_id=410\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-410\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\".\/wp-content\/uploads\/bowlcpfinished.jpg\" alt=\"Capcom Bowl control panel - finished\" title=\"Capcom Bowl control panel - finished\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-410\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capcom Bowl control panel - finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to get creative with the control panel. Getting a new panel was too expensive on my shoestring budget. Since a lot of the &#8220;meat&#8221; of the panel was missing anyway, I decided to turn this to my advantage. An old operator trick is to use plexi\/Lexan to mount controls\/buttons\/whatnot to instead of mounting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}