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| Gray_Area:
I have a machine with a metal control panel. The original Seimitsu's were the perfect height: as your hand cupped around the ball top, the outside of your palm rested right on the panel. I was under the impression the stock U360 shafts were to match up similarly, but they are a good centimeter taller. Same, whether ball or tab top. Not bad, but not that 'oooooooo'. I'm thinking of modding the shaft a little shorter. Has anyone had a similar experience?...done what I'm thinking of doing? |
| TopJimmyCooks:
If you disassemble the sticks and take the shaft to a machine shop, they can cut, turn them down and rethread, since you're taking off a whole centimeter that will give them fresh, full diameter steel to work with. You'll lose the chrome, shouldn't be a big deal. If you find a cool old cooter machinist it would probably be $50. If its a new professional shop they won't want to talk to you. If you are OK with the throw, you might consider spacing the joystick body down 1 cm from the underside of the panel to get your height without reducing throw. |
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--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on June 08, 2011, 09:07:46 am ---If you disassemble the sticks and take the shaft to a machine shop, they can cut, turn them down and rethread... --- End quote --- Why would they need to be 'turned down'? |
| TopJimmyCooks:
IIRc the threaded portion is smaller diameter than the shaft. They will need to put it in a lathe and remove metal down to the diameter the threading die requires. |
| Gray_Area:
Oh. I thought you meant turn down the whole shaft. Anyways, it would be cheaper to have Franco B make them from scratch...although I could probably swing some kind of connection locally. I just haven't bothered yet. |
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