any idea what kind/brand of joystick this is?

[Xphile]

on the ultimarc sticks the clear plastic thing swivels from 4 to 8 way, so it's not that one...and I can't find anything on the happs site with bases like this in the exploded views..any ideas what brand these are?

thanks,
x

[NIVO]

could they be SUZO?? Just a wild guess here.

[spidermonkey]

Looks like a Sanwa from underneath but the bat handle is throwing me off. I don't know if Sanwa makes a bat handled stick or not.

[Grasshopper]

I've never seen one of those before. However it's definitely not a Suzo joystick.

[Minwah]

I *think* if it were Sanwa it would say so on the plastic round washer (just under the handle).  I can see it has something written there but what does it say?

[Brax]

wow, great restrictor.

[rampy]

dumb question/suggestion... looks like the u.s. patent number is nearly clear enough to read ... and you *should* be able to pull tat up onthe us patent website (I  think) and at least divine the manufacturer (maybe)

good luck
rampy

[Xphile]

i did do a search for the patent numbers in google before i asked, but was unaware you could search at the us patent site, thank you for that info..may come in handy

FINALLY got a response from the seller (after 4 days   ), and he said the manufacturer is "Will Join" or "Chang tai", and the only other marking is "Zippy"... I found zippy microswitches, but Will Join is something that is virtually impossible to search for effectively and chang tai gives no english websites ...anyone heard anything about them?

[rampy]

I got slightly less lazy and looked it up  (www.uspto.gov)

here's a link to the result

*shrug* not sure that it does much good though...

good luck,

rampy