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Has anyone hacked a Gorf trigger joystick to a Happs Super?
Kremmit:
--- Quote from: unclet on January 06, 2006, 05:59:50 pm ---Are you talking about the black flexible tubing used for sprinklers or some type of hard plastic riser or something?
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I believe he did use a sprinkler riser.
unclet:
SUCCESS! See some pictures below:
I have not attached this to my control panel yet, but I believe I am past all the harder stuff (well .. it really was not all that hard).
I kept the metal tube which came with the Gorf handle for mounting, but cut the length a bit for the correct size. I then took some black sprinkler pipe (ie: funny pipe) and drilled some holes so the mounting screws (from the Gorf joystick) would go through the black sprinkler pipe as well. I then placed the sprinkler pipe up inside the metal tube. Next, I placed the wiring I needed through the sprinkler pipe so it comes out both ends.
Now, after removing the top oval-like handle from my Super joystick, I was left with the long silver rod. I shoved the long silver joystick rod up into the black sprinkler pipe (next to the wiring). Due to the wiring and the silver rod being together in the black sprinkler pipe, it is a real tight fit, so there was no need to use any mounting screws to secure the silver rod at all.
NOTES:
I did originally try to secure the silver rod with one of the Gorf handle side mounting screws, but the screw did not really provide enough force to hold the silver rod in place. However, after placing the silver rod inside there with the wiring, it was clear that it was a real snug fit and mounting screws were not needed anyway to make it secure.
In order to remove the top oval-like handle from my Super joystick, I simply used a hand-held scroll saw. I put the pulsating (up/down) blade against the silver rod and cut one side of the black oval-like handle off. I then placed the remaining black handle part in a vice and pryed the silver rod (quite easily).
unclet:
Here is another pic showing how the silver rod and wiring are placed together in the metal tube for a snug fit.....
unclet:
I have a couple of questions now:
1) My Gorf joystick did not come with a pushbutton on the handle. It only came with the trigger button. How can I add a pushbutton to this joystick? Not sure what parts I need or how it attaches. I guess it is a special pushbutton I need..... I will keep looking around.
2) If I add a pushbutton to the handle, then I guess I will need to get a new plastic covering for the joystick "window" ..... where can I get one of these? I guess I could always just cut a hole in the plastic I currently have .... oh well.
Here are some pictures of the inside of my Gorf handle (plastic window thing removed of course). There seems to be some place to have a pushbutton attached, but I am not sure how to go about doing this. Does anyone have a picture if the inside of their Gorf handle showing me how the pushbutton is attached?
Kremmit:
The Happ part#s for the new thumbswitches & plate are in this thread:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=34207.0
There are also some cheaper alternative parts mentioned there.
Ponyboy may be able to get a better price on the ones from Happ.