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| muzland:
Thanks PoDunkMoFo, --- Quote ---Not sure if this matters to you or not but Star Wars yoke handles are cast aluminum. --- End quote --- I was not aware they were aluminium. Plastic would be ok for the one I plan on making as I have no way of machining aluminium. If Fozzy's mold idea is good I will probably have a bash at this and see what the results turn out like. It would be repro but so will the rest as I will be building from scratch. Genuine Yokes are like rocking horse ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- and when they do come up they go for a small fortune. I'm on a budget with this so it's out of my league. After all it is only for a few games (important ones though :D). Like Fozzy if I get the mold working I would gladly do a run to supply handles to people on here. If the whole Yoke build goes good I may even start supplying these as well. The other thing I am planning on making is my spinner. I have managed to aquire a job lot of bust hard drives so I am going to give this a go as soon as the rest of my cab is up and running. It will be a mouse hack. Trackball I have is an old pc serial device (with ps2 converter) but it has a 2 1/4" ball so is not too bad size wise. Does not roll as freely as an arcade one so I will have to go to work with the WD40. Only paid |
| Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: muzland on February 18, 2006, 05:07:50 am ---As you can see I am trying to do things cheaply but also I will get a lot of personal satisfaction out of making something myself. I am not good at these things so it gives me a challenge to see if I can pull it off to a good standard. --- End quote --- That's the whole point of this community Muzland.... You go for it! I'll post a few pointers where to look later today for mold making information. Best Regards, Julian (Fozzy The Bear) |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: muzland on February 18, 2006, 05:07:50 am ---If the whole Yoke build goes good I may even start supplying these as well. --- End quote --- That would be popular if you can pull it off. FWIW, Gamecab was working on this, but I don't know what the current status is: http://www.gamecab.com/yoke.htm |
| Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on February 18, 2006, 10:44:14 am ---FWIW, Gamecab was working on this, but I don't know what the current status is: http://www.gamecab.com/yoke.htm --- End quote --- I don't think anybody knows what his current status is..... Almost everything on his site reads as: Discontinued... either that or: Out Of Stock.... It looks very like he's out of business on this stuff. Best Regards, Julian (Fozzy The Bear) |
| muzland:
Nice one Fozzy, Look forward to the molding info. --- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on February 18, 2006, 10:44:14 am --- --- Quote from: muzland on February 18, 2006, 05:07:50 am ---If the whole Yoke build goes good I may even start supplying these as well. --- End quote --- That would be popular if you can pull it off. FWIW, Gamecab was working on this, but I don't know what the current status is: http://www.gamecab.com/yoke.htm --- End quote --- Wow! This looks great and is a proper engineered piece of work. Mine will be made from 1/2" MDF :'( as I have plenty of this knocking around after the control panel build. I took a look inside my PC steering wheel the other day and the guts of this could be modified to work I reckon. The other options I have is the dual strike hack. One of the things I don't know about the yoke is what the authetic feel is like. It is ages since I played one of these in an arcade. PS. Powered up my cab with all of the guts inside for the first time today. It all seems to work ;D. I now need to wire my network patch panels up to the sidewinder hacks and I could then actually play some games ;D.Still some work needed to tart it all up though. The speakers don't look quite right perched on top of the cab ;) Regards Muzland |
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