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mytymaus007:
its a thought!
Xiaou2:
Plastic isnt always the easiest to polish... especially certain types, like the happs bats.

 Id sand / cut off the plastic bat right off the shaft... then attack a custom made hardwood hex shape on top.  Rough the shaft up a little, and make sure its a tight fit.. then use some epoxy putty to hold it to the shaft.  Tap it on with a rubber mallet so it does not crack and or get marred up.
 
 You may want to also drill two small holes in the thing, and right into the shaft.  Tap the hole, and insert a threaded set-screw.  However, as strong as the epoxy paste is.. and with a tight fit, it probably wont need it.
mytymaus007:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on June 03, 2012, 09:48:43 pm ---Plastic isnt always the easiest to polish... especially certain types, like the happs bats.

 Id sand / cut off the plastic bat right off the shaft... then attack a custom made hardwood hex shape on top.  Rough the shaft up a little, and make sure its a tight fit.. then use some epoxy putty to hold it to the shaft.  Tap it on with a rubber mallet so it does not crack and or get marred up.
 
 You may want to also drill two small holes in the thing, and right into the shaft.  Tap the hole, and insert a threaded set-screw.  However, as strong as the epoxy paste is.. and with a tight fit, it probably wont need it.


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Has anyone did this before!
Xiaou2:
I have chopped off the plastic on a happs bat and fixed a custom wood carved trigger stick to the metal shaft. 

Also, I made a custom ball top sinistar stick. I modded an analog joystick, popped in a metal shaft to the linkage, and epoxy-ed on a wooden ball to the top.  Worked great.

Its not that difficult to mod these things.
gamuhar:

--- Quote from: mytymaus007 on June 03, 2012, 08:40:06 am ---Does anyone use these (useless) Happ (Optical) rotary sticks for anything!

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You should be able to play all those games that use mechanical rotary with it, but not the other way around as you'd loose precision, plus all the spinner games like Arkanoid and Tempest. Is your comment just about the handle itself, not comfortable enough, slippery, or something like that?
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