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| Trimoor:
I am considering buying a metal leith, and I was wondering how hard it would be to make some metaly joystick handles. It looks easy enough, but how would I handle the curves? How would I make it easy to repeat? Can spinner knobs be made easily? How would I make vertical grooves like arkanoid or tron? Thanks! |
| Snarbald:
Unless you're planning on getting a cnc lathe, you can make the top of the handle rounded by using a toolbit with the profile of the radius milled out of it or you could just eye it with a file (actually now that I think about, the file is proabably the better of these two ways). |
| Mameotron:
In keeping with thw whole BYO spirit, you might try building your own foundry and casting the metal parts you want. This site has LOTS of books on the subject. http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks/foundry/index.html Or, BYO plastic injection molding machine and make plastic joystick parts. http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/inject/index.html |
| danny_galaga:
making a curved shape will be hard unless its cnc. but spinners will be quite possible. youll be using a knurling tool for that. vertical grooves will probably need to be done on some sort of mill set-up. but if you have lined up a metal lathe and its pretty cheap, id say still get it because you will find all sorts of things you can make on it. good luck! |
| pcates:
--- Quote from: Trimoor on October 09, 2004, 01:42:28 am ---I am considering buying a metal leith, and I was wondering how hard it would be to make some metaly joystick handles. It looks easy enough, but how would I handle the curves? How would I make it easy to repeat? Can spinner knobs be made easily? How would I make vertical grooves like arkanoid or tron? Thanks! --- End quote --- Has anyone actually been making their own joystick handles/shafts? I had never considered that this would be possible with a home setup. |
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