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Please help, my joystick makes a loud CLACK sound/feeling, is it normal?
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LightningBolt:

--- Quote from: RandyT on October 21, 2014, 12:24:28 am ---
--- Quote from: LightningBolt on October 20, 2014, 09:02:57 pm ---This begs the question, WHY did the reunion version come with a smaller ball?

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Because it's a Reunion stick.  The Reunion arcade machine also ran Galaga, and a quick measurement of the stick on my original Galaxian machine shows the ball to be about 1.22".  I assume that Galaga was the same, so that's where the ball size likely came from.  Then again, it's been awhile since I have seen a real Ms. Pac.  Is the ball 1 1/4" on those as well?

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Interesting!

From this thread:
http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/forums/index.php?topic=2007.0

someone wrote:

Here are the measurements from my cab, taken with a Vernier gauge.

C/P to top of ball = 1.9" (subject to 'throw' movement)
C/P to bottom of ball = 0.57"
Ball diameter = 1.33"
Shaft diameter = 0.76"
RandyT:

--- Quote from: LightningBolt on October 21, 2014, 12:45:24 am ---someone wrote:

Here are the measurements from my cab, taken with a Vernier gauge.

C/P to top of ball = 1.9" (subject to 'throw' movement)
C/P to bottom of ball = 0.57"
Ball diameter = 1.33"
Shaft diameter = 0.76"

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And in the same thread......


--- Quote ---...what I think you're looking for is. 1 7/8" from the top of the ball to the control panel surface. From the bottom of the ball to the control panel surface looks like about 5/8".  So I guess that would make the ball about 1 1/4". I measured this on a Ms. Pac upright.
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I'm really curious now.  Original sticks on Pac games seem to be about as rare as hen's teeth, so I'm wondering which joysticks these folks were actually measuring.  Based on the context of the user's post you quoted, he doesn't appear to be using an original.  Not sure I trust his dimensions either.  .76" shaft diameter??  :)   I'm really starting to think the Reunion sticks are accurate, and the rest are "close".
LightningBolt:

--- Quote from: RandyT on October 21, 2014, 01:29:02 am ---
--- Quote from: LightningBolt on October 21, 2014, 12:45:24 am ---someone wrote:

Here are the measurements from my cab, taken with a Vernier gauge.

C/P to top of ball = 1.9" (subject to 'throw' movement)
C/P to bottom of ball = 0.57"
Ball diameter = 1.33"
Shaft diameter = 0.76"

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And in the same thread......


--- Quote ---...what I think you're looking for is. 1 7/8" from the top of the ball to the control panel surface. From the bottom of the ball to the control panel surface looks like about 5/8".  So I guess that would make the ball about 1 1/4". I measured this on a Ms. Pac upright.
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I'm really curious now.  Original sticks on Pac games seem to be about as rare as hen's teeth, so I'm wondering which joysticks these folks were actually measuring.  Based on the context of the user's post you quoted, he doesn't appear to be using an original.  Not sure I trust his dimensions either.  .76" shaft diameter??  :)   I'm really starting to think the Reunion sticks are accurate, and the rest are "close".

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I saw another thread on reddit where someone measured theirs as 1.25"

I have a Sanwa joystick (35mm balls are standard I believe) and it would seem too big for Midway joystick, at around 1.377 inches.
RandyT:

--- Quote from: LightningBolt on October 21, 2014, 01:42:55 am ---I saw another thread on reddit where someone measured theirs as 1.25"

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If they indicated that theirs was original, as the one I quoted seemed to, I think there might be a pattern emerging.
LightningBolt:
Just for reference I definitely confirmed it's the black bushing and/or the hole it goes into. I made a video.






And I received a new Super joystick today and it does not have the same problem so perhaps just a fluke defect
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