Also for the handles I will be making my own ball tops.
Split ping pong ball or similar in two. A ping pong ball is 40mm in Diameter
- In the 'top' half place the clear knob that I got for the encoder and fill the half ball with 'Everlasting Elegance Arcylic'.
- In the bottom half cut a hole in the top of the half sphere,
- place a joystick shaft nut at the hole,
- make a small chimney for the joytsick shaft to screw up into (roll a tube from sode bottle plastic)
- place the encoder on top of the chimney & thread the wires down through the chimney from the encoder
- Make sure the enconder shaft is above the 'fill line' of the half ping pong ball
- Fill with acrylic
Once they are set, peel off the ping pong ball plastic, push the two halves together and Bob's yer Uncle