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bji:
I had another thought.  Perhaps to make it easy on myself I could support just two restrictors: one routed into the top of the panel (covered by the art layer and plexiglass) and one routed into the bottom of the panel.  Then I wouldn't need to sandwich anything inside the actual panel wood itself.
AndyWarne:

--- Quote from: Bender on June 26, 2010, 06:35:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: AndyWarne on June 26, 2010, 02:27:39 pm ---Its something I was experimenting with. A restrictor which is in two halves and inserts into a housing which also forms a mounting kit so that the joystick mounts through a single hole.

It can be inserted in two orientations for 4 or 8 way or left out for analog.

Its not quite right yet so we are re-making one of the molds.

One important factor to note is for this to work the handle needs to be much longer which might be an issue, we have not really tested fully yet.

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so it would be fixed and not switchable from above the panel?

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Its switchable from above, the two halves pull out vertically upwards from the housing.
bji:

--- Quote from: AndyWarne on June 28, 2010, 09:24:04 am ---
Its switchable from above, the two halves pull out vertically upwards from the housing.

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Ah, I get it.  The plate is meant to be bottom-mounted, and the circular collar would come up through the panel and the top of it would be flush with the top of the panel.  To switch restrictors, you would dig your fingernail under the collar, pull up on each half and pop it out, then push new restrictor halves in.

Seems like it would solve the problem of allowing lots of restrictors to be used with the same stick and to be user-changeable from above the panel.  The only drawback I see is that it's not quite as 'elegant' a solution as it requires fiddling with metal pieces, and keeping the extra restrictors around somewhere (a pull-out drawer in the front of your control panel?).

I am curious though - does restricting a joystick from the top like that work well?  Does it chew up the shaft?  Is it hard to calculate the dimensions that the collar restrictor should be to create the correct restriction (I hate doing math, especially complicated math that involves trigonometry as that problem does!)?
kronic24601:
I like the fact that if you have plexi glass, you don't need to cut special holes in it. Andy, this looks really cool count me as interested :)
Bender:

--- Quote from: AndyWarne on June 28, 2010, 09:24:04 am ---
--- Quote from: Bender on June 26, 2010, 06:35:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: AndyWarne on June 26, 2010, 02:27:39 pm ---Its something I was experimenting with. A restrictor which is in two halves and inserts into a housing which also forms a mounting kit so that the joystick mounts through a single hole.

It can be inserted in two orientations for 4 or 8 way or left out for analog.

Its not quite right yet so we are re-making one of the molds.

One important factor to note is for this to work the handle needs to be much longer which might be an issue, we have not really tested fully yet.

--- End quote ---

so it would be fixed and not switchable from above the panel?

--- End quote ---

Its switchable from above, the two halves pull out vertically upwards from the housing.

--- End quote ---

Cool and as long as the halves are shorter than the shaft (so they could be removed) it would be neatly covered up by the dust washer... Slick!!!!
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