PacMan joystick rehab

[tron84]

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.    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 

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 


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    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  Plus who does not like shiny things     hehehehehe


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

[RandyT]

A mere shadow of it's former terrible self.  Nice work!

[AGarv]

I like it - the pac-grommet is particularly clever!

[monkey puzzle]

Very nice work. I like to see something good made from something that would otherwise get thrown away.

[tron84]

A mere shadow of it's former terrible self.  Nice work!

Thanks Randy.

I like it - the pac-grommet is particularly clever!

Thank you AGarv... Yes, Bally/Midways design of this joystick is some very fine engineering!!!  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.  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  It was a small part but every piece counts