Modifying the pedals Our X-Box needs to recieve input from the arcade-cabinets pedals. We opened one of the pedal-sets and was dissapointed by an extremely weak plastic-contstruction. Plastic-fantastic still rings in my head... A big "THUMBS DOWN!" go out to Thrustmaster for selling these "My First Sony"-products. We can't use the pedals as they are now, but let's check out what our starting point is. Plastic, plastic and MORE plastic... A normal kid will break this in weeks! Simple construction. When the pedal is moved forwards, the tags on pedal twists the potentiometer. The pedals in our arcade-cabinet works the same way, but with proper springs and a sturdy construction. It's built solid to withstand years of arcade-abuse. The potentionmeters in the Thrustmaster pedals was 5k ohm, while the arcade ones are 30k, lets just swap them, or..? Here's the potentiometer in our arcade-pedals. A little dusty but that's all, still works great after 8 years... The potentiometer-mounts had to be modified a bit, using a careful hand.. And a big drill! After modifying the mounts it's plug, adjust and play! We now have working pedals! Let's celebrate! [<<- Page 5: Integrating the TVs...]   [Page 6 - Modifying the pedals]   [Page 7: Let's play! ->>]