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Xiaou2:

 I believe the  new2  guy had trouble as the molds are expensive and they only last for so many casts before having to be remade.   

 I would like a few sets if the price is reasonable.

 Muzland,   better use a stronger wood for your controller.  MDF is good for things like cabinets.. but under stresses it falls appart very easily.    In a starwars controller, it surely wouldnt last long.

 
 
Fozzy The Bear:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on February 19, 2006, 07:19:10 pm ---I believe the  new2  guy had trouble as the molds are expensive and they only last for so many casts before having to be remade.   

 I would like a few sets if the price is reasonable.

--- End quote ---

Actually, making the molds and the cost of them is not too bad for me. I live in an area where there's a lot of Surfing... I mean real surfing not internet surfing... So fibreglass and resins and mold rubbers are reasonable round here because there's a lot of surf board and boat manufacture here.

Yes Silicone rubber molds do deteriorate, but you can usually pull at least 50 casts out of them if you treat them carefully. In any case, I'd make a master to pull additional molds from, becuase the material that I'd be casting these in has quite a long setting time, and it'd make sense to be casting more than one at once.

Costs, as I said will be restricted solely to time and materials, I'm not interested in profiting from it. So you can be sure that you'll get them at a sensible figure.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
Brax:
You have a pm.
MinerAl:
In the past this has been discussed and the problem, even with perfectly cast repros, is that you still need to hack them to get them attached to a modern joystick, or you need the original Tron stick mechanism to attach the repro to.

My dream (I have a dream today) would be to have Tron stick handles cast with the outside a perfect repro, but the inside of the stick (internal supports/structure etc.) would be made to solidly attach to a 1cm OD steel or aluminum pipe which would fit down into modern joystick mechanisms, like a super or a competition or a 49-way.

The other tricks to a useful modern Tron stick are the false-4way action and the rotation.  There are a number of suggested solutions for this.

I'm looking very forward to the developments in this thread!

Count me in as soon as you're taking orders :)

Al
Flinkly:
i can attest to the happ sticks as having the same detail on the outside as the original tron joysticks.  at least all the ones i've seen.  it doesn't make sense for them to make two different flavors of the same joystick, although as we all know, different colors is easy.

as for a repro joystick, i think it would be easier and more cost effective to make a stick that mated the repro handle to a kind of joystick, rather than match the handle to a pipe to a joystick.  check out the page about 1ups try at mating handles to the 49-way and others.  although he didn't sell many, they worked.
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