U360 casualty

[Gray_Area]

Not me....though I do have a slight welt on my palm.

The stick went down a little too easily in Pac, and old Red got me scrambling up, just before the pellet. That was a little much.

[Los Abrazos Rotos]

Oh dear!  

Damn you Red!  

*shakes fist*

[mytymaus007]

Piecess of JUNK you actually ripped the Ball From the Shaft My recomendations were the original Bally/Midway leaf switch for Pacman. There is a reason the joystick weighs 2lbs 

[AndyWarne]

Piecess of JUNK you actually ripped the Ball From the Shaft My recomendations were the original Bally/Midway leaf switch for Pacman. There is a reason the joystick weighs 2lbs  

This is a Sanwa stick as can be seen from the lettering on the dust washer. Sanwa do not make junk.

I would be surprised if anyone else has ever had a Sanwa handle break. We will replace it free of charge of course though.

[ShadeValryn]

5 bucks says that even after the ball top broke off, you still recovered and tried to keep playing 

[eds1275]

5 bucks says that even after the ball top broke off, you still recovered and tried to keep playing 

I was thinking the same thing! Nothing gets in the way of me gaming!

[TOK]

Whoever did that was a frigging spaz. My buddy actually slid a cab on carpet playing Robotron. He is also a spaz.

[Gray_Area]

5 bucks says that even after the ball top broke off, you still recovered and tried to keep playing  

No, it was my last Pac. -frowns-  But I did fire up another game just to see how playable it was. I have replacements, though.

Whoever did that was a frigging spaz. My buddy actually slid a cab on carpet playing Robotron. He is also a spaz.

Perhaps. When some things don't work exactly as I wish. So be it. (I actually move my feet and chair during a heated game of Robotron...and sometimes in tight spots with other games.....)


Hence, thank you Andy, but I broke it. It must be noted that this shaft has withstood years of punishment.

[Gray_Area]

Well. Look at the base plate.

[AGarv]

Has the base bent at the edges or is it designed like that?

[Gray_Area]

Has the base bent at the edges or is it designed like that?

No, I did that.

And, a souvenir. Local Ace guy was good to me.

[Gray_Area]

Um. So just now I replaced the over long shaft (somehow I had gotten a shaft for the top-mount restrictor kit) with the 'regular' longer shaft. And look what I found. I was a little hard on it the other night.

[Ginsu Victim]

Everyone's got a bit of curve to their shaft.

[Seith]

Everyone's got a bit of curve to their shaft.

 

[(+_+)]

Holy okesmays,

How the hell did that happen. I see pics with a broken ball top, another with a bent bar and yet another with a bent plate. 
Either something was defective or somebody's playing with there joystick a little to roughly. 

I'd ban somebody from playing my cab if they abused it. I saw one guy pull the joystick so
hard that he slingshotted to the floor as if he felt the immediate need to do a quick set of push ups in the midst
of a chaotic Robotron game.  True story.

I have been using my U360s for several years now and only suffered from a fried board once and
I think it was my own fault. These joysticks are well built so I can't believe it would break or bend
under normal usage. But then again, we may not have the same definition of "normal".

[Gray_Area]

Everyone's got a bit of curve to their shaft.

I've found that's usually related to beyond a certain length or/and girth.


.......heh heh heh heh. I'll spell it out. As has been mentioned in other threads, there are times when the U360 registers when it shouldn't, etc. This makes me angry. So I hurt the stick. (I've had to re-enforce the mounting holes. Imagine if I had a metal panel.) So, in a way, it's a plug for the robustness of them.