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tron84

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PacMan joystick rehab
« on: June 28, 2013, 11:23:36 am »
First off there are some Really talented cabinet builders here.  I wish I had room for cabinets but I dont, one day.  I would love a room full of them because I grew up in the golden age of arcades. So I have to make controller's.
I was not sure where my post should fall, since it is complete now & falls under a couple of things.
I already have a dual stick setup.  I was missing a dedicated 4way joystick & was needing one bad.  So I picked up an original Pacman joystick.  ;D  This felt wrong making a controller out of it, to me.  One day it will go into a cab.  It was so rusted & broke, I could not let it be forgotten or destroyed over time. To me this was the best 4way joystick ever made & designed  ;D :applaud:

So here it is how I got it.  The grommet is busted & the joy is rusted.



Starting the rehab.

This is as much as I could get it cleaned.

New centering grommet put on.  The other plate cleaned up  ;D


Now I wanted to keep the joystick in metal, since it is a short shaft.

The original leaf switches were shot on this.  I had to get replacement size leaf switches for it. I also used the classx leaf switches from GGG , for the buttons.


So here it is put together  ;D  I hand cut the pacman logo name out of a purple chrome vinyl.

Made PacMan on the dust washer.

Then I made a stencil type for the side ghost's.  One side is red, the other side pink.  It is hard to tell from the pic but the ghost's are metallic. I did it this way, so it would let the metal thru the color  ;D Plus who does not like shiny things  :o ;D ;D   hehehehehe


So that is what I came up with & built.  Hope ya like it. Thanks for looking  :cheers:
 



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Re: PacMan joystick rehab
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2013, 03:36:56 pm »
A mere shadow of it's former terrible self.  Nice work!

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Re: PacMan joystick rehab
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2013, 04:43:47 pm »
I like it - the pac-grommet is particularly clever!

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Re: PacMan joystick rehab
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2013, 07:11:54 pm »
Very nice work. I like to see something good made from something that would otherwise get thrown away.

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Re: PacMan joystick rehab
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2013, 08:01:49 pm »
A mere shadow of it's former terrible self.  Nice work!
Thanks Randy. :cheers:

I like it - the pac-grommet is particularly clever!
Thank you AGarv... Yes, Bally/Midways design of this joystick is some very fine engineering!!!  ;D They just do not make them like this anymore.

Very nice work. I like to see something good made from something that would otherwise get thrown away.
Thanks monkey puzzle.  :cheers: I feel the same way.  I could not let a piece of gaming history just rot or be thrown away.  I am sure there a lot of members here, that like me grew up in the pacman days  ;D It was a small part but every piece counts  :cheers: