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joysticks come loose
« on: May 16, 2004, 12:56:07 pm »
I notice that after playing on my cab for a whitle the screws that hold myj joystick in place start to come loose and I have to tighten the hell out of them again. Anyone else have this problem? Did I install them incorrectly?

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Re:joysticks come loose
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2004, 01:31:28 pm »
Be more specific.  Are they wood screws from the underside holding the joys to the wood?  Are they bolts that go thru into T nuts?  Do they go from the top of the CP down to the underside to nuts?

Are you using lock washers?  If not, start.

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Re:joysticks come loose
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2004, 05:13:33 pm »
Yeah sounds like you need either lock washers ( the serated kind ) or split washers work just fine ( that's what I use ).

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Re:joysticks come loose
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2004, 07:33:03 pm »
On control panels I build, I generally drill all the way through the plexi and wood. Then I use carriage bolts with nylock nuts.

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Re:joysticks come loose
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2004, 01:58:09 am »
I second the vote for Nylock nuts.

When I was younger and used to skateboard a lot, every nut on my board was nylock and I never had one come off.
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Re:joysticks come loose
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2004, 10:38:24 am »
Buy some locktite at the hardware store.  That's what's for. Put it on the threads and tighen it up.  You could also try some finer threads.  Big course threads come loose easier than fine threads.

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Re:joysticks come loose
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2004, 11:08:02 am »
Yes and if you are indeed using screws, I would suggest remove them, drilling out some holes and replace with carriage bolts.

The nuts (& bolts) I have are from Bob Roberts - they come with a little spinning-star-washer type-thing built-in, and so far seem to work a treat.  As said Nylocks are great too :)

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Re:joysticks come loose
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2004, 12:24:44 pm »
I'll second loctite. It does what the name implies. The only problem is sometimes you can't break it loose if you need to remove it for any reason.

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