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whammoed:

Also, for me it sometimes depends on the game.  Most games I am very calm but when I play galaga I tend to be violent in my side to side movement.  My cocktail is built just like the originals so it can take the abuse,  plus i have a toddler, and boy do they love to yank on the joysticks!  A toddler may be the ultimate test for a machine.  If it can take a 25 pound kid swinging on it, its probably good to go.

pointdablame:

All I know is once my upright is finally complete, I just might kill anyone who is overly aggressive with it.  Or better yet, every violent motion to my machine will be one violent motion from me to them :)

I'm a bit overprotective.....  ;D

Tailgunner:


--- Quote from: pointdablame on September 13, 2004, 10:25:11 pm ---All I know is once my upright is finally complete, I just might kill anyone who is overly aggressive with it.  Or better yet, every violent motion to my machine will be one violent motion from me to them :)

I'm a bit overprotective.....  ;D

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If you're worried about it, use a pinball plumb-bob style tilt mechanism. Wire it in between the monitor's flyback transformer and the metal control panel. They get too aggressive, and the machine shocks the p!ss outta them. ;)

Xiaou2:

lol,   some funny stuff here  ^_^

  On a serious note tho... unfortunately,  joysticks arnt built to last - especially the new happ style ones.

 (ultimates and competitions:)

  With a constant mashing - you actually are grinding a plastic spacer.  I used to work in an arcade for 3yrs.  When I first started... I opened a control panel to fix a button.  There was this fine white powder in certain spots.

  I didnt realize what this was untill I noticed that one of the joys didnt move  correctly.   Basically, once the spacer wears,  the spring pulls the shaft too  low... and the bottom actuator dosnt hit the micros correctly.

  Takeing the spacer out, youll notice wear  arround the lip.  It wears a 1/2 diameter cut into it.  You can flip the spacer over to fix this - but soon enough, it will need a completely new spacer.

  I had thought about the possibility of making a metal spacer... but,  the metal spacer may just end up ruining the joystick base on the insides - which is much worse.

  Happ then made the supers.  They are a bit more resistent to the grinding... but they are a lot harder to move and the micro-leaf switches in them often bend out of whack making diagnols hard or impossible to hit.

  Wico leafs:  If noticed  on used,  that thier plastic bases circular shaft holes will end up getting dug up and warped... so that they are no longer perfect circles... and the larger hole diameter can cuase the switches to bend too far.   Not sure how long that process takes. We only had a simpsons with leafs... but the leafs contacts needed to be cleaned too often - or the switches would bend out - so i had to swap the leaf to a micro.

 Im guessing that happ noticed the wear from wico design, and made the competition/ultimates so that only the spacers wore instead of the entire base.

 The design im most currious about is the monroe joys... as i believe they are all metal.  thier design looks like it would hardly wear at all.  

Tailgunner:


--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on September 14, 2004, 01:20:02 am ---
 The design im most currious about is the monroe joys... as i believe they are all metal.  thier design looks like it would hardly wear at all.  

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Two plastic pieces in a Monroe as I remember. The ball top knob, and a nylon spacer that presses the leaf switches. According to the counter in my Time Pilot, my Monroe joy has seen about 75000 games. There is some wear in the ball seat that the joystick shaft rolls around in, but it's not enough to effect the playability. I will readily agree that Monroe sticks are probably the most durable arcade joysticks ever made.

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