Sanwa JLF issue with diagonals

[dommer]

I recently refurbished my old cabinet, and as part of the process I swapped out my old Happ sticks for Sanwa JLF's.  I like the feel, the balltop, the metal construction, but I seem to have a big problem with them, and that is that the diagonals are WAY too easy to hit.  It seems like right and left are just way too hard to hit.  Is this common?  Has anyone had a similar experience?  How did you address it?

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[HaRuMaN]

Check your restrictor...

[BadMouth]

I recently refurbished my old cabinet, and as part of the process I swapped out my old Happ sticks for Sanwa JLF's.  I like the feel, the balltop, the metal construction, but I seem to have a big problem with them, and that is that the diagonals are WAY too easy to hit.  It seems like right and left are just way too hard to hit.  Is this common?  Has anyone had a similar experience?  How did you address it?

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Those big flat sides of the square restrictor can make it seem like the primaries are harder to hit than they really are.

Originally I swapped the restrictor plates out for octagon shaped ones.
Having a "corner" for each primary direction in addition to the diagonals makes you more conscious of where you are moving the stick.
Moving the stick in a direction, then having the restrictor guide it in showed me how sloppy my movements really were.
I liked them, but after a while got tired of the bumpity-bump of hitting all the sides while making circular motions in fighting games.
(because I will never have enough control to move the stick around without riding the restrictor)

So I moved on to round restrictors.  No defined corners, but no big flat sides to try to find the center of either.
I'm happy with them.  I have the GT-C from http://godlikecontrols.com/, but focusattack and arcade paradise both sell their own now.
I've had good dealings with focusattack: http://www.focusattack.com/search.php?search_query=round+restrictor
The octagons I had were the yellow GT-Y.

[big10p]

I always fit round restrictors. I simply can't play with the square ones that tend to come as standard on most sticks.