Cheap nutdrivers are relatively soft and can be had for a couple bucks each. You need to go to one of those cheap junk import tool stores. You ever tried using one of those cheap nut drivers with a vise grips locked onto it for a little extra leverage? The one I used wasn't hardened thats for sure.
Golf club handle sounds like it might work. But I'd be concerned about the fit and cheap golf glub handles aren't very hard, but maybe hard enough.
Ok I'm just throwing this idea out, I haven't tried it but inside my head it sounds like it should work. Use the origanel handle, just cut a groove down the side of it for the wire to slip into. If wire exposed between the bottom of the handle and the top of the control panel use a plasic sleeve, a rubber boot or even black electircal tape to hold it in and hide it. You could cut the groove with a dremel and a metal cutting disc. This would be cheap if you already have a dremel. Clamp the joystick handle into a vice and groove away.
I finally managed to find a nutdriver with a hollow shaft. It was a Xcelite 3/8" nutdriver model HS12V. I found it in a local electronic parts store, and paid $7.00 canadian for it. The diameter of the shaft seemed to be the same than the one from the super joystick. I was able to remove the handle rather quickly with a dremel, and cutting off the head was easy too. There is however a little loose when I put it in the joystick. I will have to put a small layer of something to make it fit without loose in the joystick base, like electrical tape or something like that, unless you guys have other suggestions.
As for the trigger handle itself, I checked if I could find a Raider pro joystick, but they are nowhere to be found where I live in canada. Ordering them from the states is out of the question, since my last order from Happ was way too high for my budget, with the currency exchange rate, customs, etc... and I don't want to be flamed by the wife...

Are those available somewhere in Canada ? or is there any discount or surplus store in this country where I could find a trigger handle for cheap, and where I could order either online, by phone or snail mail ?
From a guy wanting to make his control panel better, while keeping is marriage intact...
