It’s been a while since the last update – I always dread updates that’s why they’re so far in between haha
I was bumbed for a little while as the temporary ms9 I had stopped working luckily, the proper MS9 from the cab was being serviced by JOMAC and it wasn’t too much longer.
I received my 1p panel from Alberto and he also hooked up the missing marquee bracket which I’ve painted white since.
On the painting side of things, I decided to paint the speaker grills, move list clips and marquee holder.
Speaker grills before:
![](https://i.imgur.com/2DDGk8Kh.jpg)
Speaker grills after:
![](https://i.imgur.com/AOgIedsh.jpg)
Move list clips before:
![](https://i.imgur.com/NzL1FIwh.jpg)
Move list clips after:
![](https://i.imgur.com/PHZoo3th.jpg)
And here’s the marquee bracket painted
![](https://i.imgur.com/i3ASEb3h.jpg)
Since this was the first run for Alberto with the marquee bracket, it was only natural that it be tested properly for fitment. Fortunately, the bracket fit perfectly fine!
![](https://i.imgur.com/pyUzSo4h.jpg)
Next on the agenda was to install the freshly purchased Joystick and buttons on the 1p panel.
Since the panel was using the sanwa style mount, I thought that getting the K-SE flat plate was the correct decision for the Seimtisu LS32 stick. Upon installing, I knew it wasn’t right, the shaft height was way too short, it was around the 19-20mm mark from the top of the panel to the bottom of the ball top. For most candy cab users, this is definitely not in the acceptable as 24-25mm is the acceptable norm. Fellas, that 4mm matters so much!
![](https://i.imgur.com/bGZIAHFh.jpg)
The solution was to get the K-SS bracket which has an S bend so it’s a lot closer to the top of the CP than with the flat plate, this will give it the correct shaft height.
I didn’t have the new SS bracket that has the centre hole in it so it’s just a directly plug and play to Alberto’s panel, but I did have a spare SS bracket…
Since I didn’t really want to wait too much longer, I wanted to get this bracket on and tested, so I got my handy drill and guestimated where the hole needed to be and away she went… it fit perfectly
![](https://i.imgur.com/rHqk7SSh.jpg)
The shaft height is now at the correct height of 24mm!
![](https://i.imgur.com/uv4lFC2h.jpg)