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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #345 on: March 20, 2015, 06:36:17 PM »
However, there are more differences between them that (once installed) are actually way more visible.

The lip (edge ?) of the button that is around the hole is thicker on the original button. Also the plunger is much higher and the top is flatter (where the newer button is more concave).

It's all minor until you put them on the panel....than the difference is clear between night and day.



I still really wonder why Gottlieb didn't back-lit the buttons....would have been nice :)
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #346 on: March 20, 2015, 06:38:35 PM »
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #347 on: March 20, 2015, 06:41:08 PM »
Put the joystick in....so now the panel is complete. It looks perfect and I don't regret removing the old overlay....it would have bugged me to have a fully restored machine with lots of repro artwork and still keeping a damaged/dirty CP.

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #348 on: March 20, 2015, 06:44:28 PM »
It's not really ready though:

I still have to either dig up or buy a set of leaf button holders, can't use those from the Joust as that has wood behind the metal.

Also: one of the micro-switches on the joystick doesn't "click" like the other 3 which gives it a weird feeling when playing, and another micro-switch got damaged probably from the unsoldering of the wires.

So I'm looking to replace all 4. Any suggestions ?

I'm not looking to get the originals, those are these:

First I was thinking....what brand is this, Freeport, Ill. ? But that sounds like a city in the state of Illinois...I did some googling and it turns out that the brand of these micro-switches was...... Micro Switch.
I never realized that that was an actual brand...the factory/brand belonged to Honeywell by the way...

Can't find anything about these specific model switches nor do I really need to have these, but I do want good quality ones (should have ordered a couple of these with the trackball and T-molding:

http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=92&products_id=346

These sound really what I would like for a micro-switch....

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #349 on: March 20, 2015, 07:00:48 PM »
Oh, and this "detail" on the joystick I will love forever.....


Manufactured by Suzo in the city I was born and lived at the time, went to the US to go into a Q*bert, and now more or less returns home  ;D
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #350 on: March 20, 2015, 09:32:34 PM »
I have a bunch of NOS Cherry microswitches with NO-contact only. Let me know and I'll throw some (8?) into your pocket within the next 8 days!! ;)

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #351 on: March 20, 2015, 09:36:36 PM »
AWESOME THANKS !!! :)
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #352 on: March 20, 2015, 11:54:19 PM »
Alpha-Torn from the KLOV forum was kind enough to provide some pics of how to mount the monitor and also how the original bezel looks like and is fitted.

It's not that I wasn't patient ChrisChris but we were talking about the Q*bert buttons on KLOV forum and I mentioned it and he provided the pics before I knew it :)

So, hopefully it saves you some time this weekend ;)

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #353 on: March 20, 2015, 11:56:18 PM »








I'm still looking for monitor supports like that (vertical) and a black plastic bezel like that......if anyone has a spare. Else I'll have to order in the US and I'm sure shipping is not going to be funny for such a big thing...
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #354 on: March 21, 2015, 04:31:57 PM »
Pictures are missing.
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #355 on: March 21, 2015, 05:18:53 PM »
No they're not if you're a KLOV member :)

Will upload them here a bit later....
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #356 on: March 21, 2015, 05:36:48 PM »
Pics...
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #357 on: March 21, 2015, 06:47:10 PM »
didn't have the time to search them...but did you look at thearcadeboneyard.com? I bought the monitor frames for my Journey there :)
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #358 on: March 21, 2015, 06:59:45 PM »
Yep I did, quite incidentally I e-mailed him today....he didn't have a Q*bert bezel but something that would fit.....price was .....OK.......shipping costs was not right !!!!  >:(  More than 40 bucks....

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #359 on: March 21, 2015, 07:06:47 PM »
"Secretly" I'm hoping this would fit: http://www.twistedquarter.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=200_203&products_id=1302

It looks just a bit too small though...However, I think it wouldn't be much of a problem to make "the edges" a bit larger here.

The alternative would be this one:http://www.twistedquarter.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=59_62&products_id=341

but why is the smaller one 6 bucks and the other 30 ?  Also, all that extra plastic won't help the shipping price.

However, I need more stuff from Twistedquarter.com anyway, and it makes more sense to combine the bezel from them in that case.

Both these bezels have one big drawback though: inside the curved parts there is some extra edges that make it more "square"......I'd love to cut that out (like the original has it) but not too sure that is possible without ruining it....

I'm pretty sure a Midway Pac/Galaxian bezel would work by the way.
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