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Ultrastik 360 restrictor above the mounting plate
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Bender:
Andy,

What is that????????!!!!!!!!!
AndyWarne:
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.
bji:

--- 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 ---

I wish I had your design and fabrication skills.

I'm thinking of a plate with sliding restrictor halves embedded that mounts on top of the joystick.  I see you have the plate part, and I see a round restrictor there, but I don't understand how the two halves to that collar you show come into play.

I think that when I get serious about this I will mock it up in wood.  I have no tools to speak of and I guess I would need some kind of precision router assembly.  I don't know how feasable it is to have something like this fabricated in very small numbers (like, two) at a local precision machining shop.  I suppose the first step will be to try to draw something up in a CAD program, or more likely, a cheap CAD imitator like google sketch up.
Bender:

--- 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?
bji:
I'm drawn up rough sketches of what I am talking about.  I have no idea how to draw real plans (obviously) and my drawing skills suck, but I hope I can get across what I am talking about.

There is a top view and side view.  What I'm trying to convey here is how there would be a flat channel in which these metal plates would slide, and there would be a pin which would be lifted out of the hole that it sits in to lock the plates in place, to slide to a new position, and then dropped down in another hole to lock the plate into place again.

And furthermore, whereas I have only drawn one layer here, I actually envision a couple of layers, one for each restrictor type.
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