My home built metal DDR pad (Part IV)

JohnWayne2k4 · Trick Member Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: WV

When polishing parts on my paintball gun I used some, I think it was, Mother's polish it should work quite well got my guns internals mirror finish.
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Shadow_Dragonz · Trick Member Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Location: California

WaterDios · Basic Member Joined: 22 Oct 2003

That's not quite right.

Acrylic and polycarbonate are both plastics, but they are different types.

Lexan is a brand name for a polycarbonate material. It's not acrylic.

Acrylic is better known by the brand names; Plexiglas, Lucite, or Acrylite while polycarbonate is better known as; Lexan, Makrolon or Tuffak.

Polycarbonate is by far the better material to use when building a pad. It's the stuff they make bulletproof windows out of.

When I was price comparing for my pad, I found that Tuffak was a bit cheaper than Lexan. I can't find the link to the place I bought it from, but if I do I'll post it.

WaterDios

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redhotfanboy · Basic Member Joined: 12 Aug 2003

OK now my base is done

Now here is the thing, im doing Riptides design as you see, but the 2" braces sit higher than rest of the pad.

Now as im typing this and see that i was supposed to use 1" plywood instead of .5" plywood like the homebuilt pad design. Any easy ways to fix this or am i screwed??? Also which way should i go for the step pads? Im understand how Riptides works, but the homebuilt pad one has me somewhat confused as to how it registers a hit

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motster · Basic Member Joined: 14 Dec 2003

The ddrhomepad registers a step via the two big buttocks sheets of sheet metal underneath each arrow :-) A wire is soldered to the one on the bottom (attached to the base), and one to the one attached to the "floating" arrow. When they touch, the circuit is closed.

scandalous bob · Trick Member Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Location: Naperville

i have finished the base of my pad, the little wood corner triangles, the solid panels and i am cutting the plexiglass soon. i am curently wiring the contact system together using the mending bracket design by riptide. i was wondering if anyone has used this yet and had any problems with it. also, i screwed the mending brackets down with drywall screws that riptide used to make the old contact system where the screws were the contacts. they are not flush with the top of the mending brackets. do they need to be? or will the tops of the screws make the contact with the sheet metal pieces on the bottom of the plexiglass?

thanks,
bmxbob3

redhotfanboy · Basic Member Joined: 12 Aug 2003

Man i guess im screwed on all fronts. I did a half and half design using Riptides base but only 1/2" plywood so there isnt enough room for the braces to fit flush with the rest of the pad. I also bought 1/2" weather striping instead of 1/4" so i messed up there too. I can get 1/4" weather striping but would the 1/2" stuff work? What other kinds of problems am i looking at here and some ideas on how to fix them would be great

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An0k · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 1:58 pm Post subject:

Ermm.... for the soldering part of the project.... Is it EXACTLY the same for an X-Box controller or should I just go out and buy a PSX or PS2 controller and snip off the end and re-wire it so it will fit the X-Box plug in.... O_o"
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tolookah · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 2:09 pm Post subject:

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An0k · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 9:14 pm Post subject:

ChoBo · Basic Member Joined: 26 Dec 2003

Hello,
Is it possible to use 1.25 inch weather stripping insteed of 1 inch? Also, has anyone written anything on using LED lights in the pad? what power level should they be etc..?

mastergd · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject:

SteelFox15 · Basic Member Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: NJ

For riptide's pad design, when screwing the brackets into the small wooden triangles, which screws should be used? is it the screws which came with the brackets or the sheet metal screws he reccomends for the whole project? thanks

Snof · Trick Member Joined: 09 Jun 2003 Location: UCSC

An0k · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject:

An0k · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 2:02 pm Post subject:

Ok iv only got Simpson corner brackets up here in Canada... and they are HUGE....the inside of the bracket its self... is about the size of one stanley corner bracket.... Iv been all over the place.. Totem...Home Hardware... Even Wal-Mart... I went to Home Depot to get all my stuff *I got my plexi glass CHEEP a sheet worth $120 for 35 because it had broken in half...* Anyways I was wondering if there was any way to make my own stanley corner bracket because it would be a HUGE help... Iv finished the base and the 5 pannels for it in WHITE * thought it might look cool?

* Anyways... IF there is ANY where in CANADA you know of to get Stanley brackets id apprecate it ALOT

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mastergd · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 2:27 pm Post subject:

dj io · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 8:22 am Post subject:

my girlfriend and i are substituting corner brackets with door hinges. we just cut off the hinge part and now we just have a flat sheet of metal that has 3 screw holes.. that will cover over the plexi to keep it in place. it won't look very pretty but it will work