Author Topic: TRON Stick Handles (Read 17490 times)

MinerAl · « **Reply #80 on:** March 28, 2006, 09:37:37 am »

Just to reiterate:

YAY!

PetitMorte · « **Reply #81 on:** March 28, 2006, 01:29:02 pm »

Wow! count me in.

Fozzy The Bear · « **Reply #82 on:** March 28, 2006, 08:20:37 pm »

OK Guys! Your interest is noted....

I will update this thread, when there's some more news.

I'm away on business for the next week, so any more questions you have will get answered when I get back on the 5th or 6th April.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

teef two · « **Reply #83 on:** March 29, 2006, 09:11:27 am »

Having just won a tron panel, sans spinner, on ebay I'd be interested in a replacement handle as the current plastic, although servicable, is showing cracks at the base.

Fozzy The Bear · « **Reply #84 on:** April 05, 2006, 06:11:46 am »

OK Guys! I'm back from my trip.....

If you have any more questions I can answer them for you now.....

The one you really want an answer to is the price I guess..... Still working on that one. If we can get the required resin ordered in bulk then the price drops dramatically. I'll update on this as soon as I can.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

Brax · « **Reply #85 on:** April 05, 2006, 12:10:08 pm »

Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on March 27, 2006, 06:28:00 pm

We already have a complete set courtesy of another member. But thanks for the offer. I'm not naming who lent them, becuase he hasn't announced that himself, and I don't know if he wants me to say. Suffice to say that it's a very near to mint condition set, and should produce very nice casts.

I lent the set. The reason I haven't said anything is because I don't really have much to do with it! I just lent the handles - wasn't hard. Fozzy's doing all the work, he deserves the credit.

I can't wait to see these either. The anticipation is killing me!

Fozzy The Bear · « **Reply #86 on:** April 05, 2006, 05:39:59 pm »

Quote from: Brax on April 05, 2006, 12:10:08 pm

I lent the set. The reason I haven't said anything is because I don't really have much to do with it! I just lent the handles - wasn't hard.

Hey! Trust me on this one, without your originals I'd have nothing to work from. To trust somebody you don't know well, with your original items, which to be honest have as much sentimental value as they do monitary value is a big thing!

Thanks to you, we should all have access to good replicas.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

markrvp · « **Reply #87 on:** April 05, 2006, 06:06:31 pm »

One of you guys (Brax & Fozzy) must change your Avatar. I get confused easily.

quarterback · « **Reply #88 on:** April 05, 2006, 07:10:40 pm »

Quote from: markrvp on April 05, 2006, 06:06:31 pm

One of you guys (Brax & Fozzy) must change your Avatar. I get confused easily.

LOL me too. I thought that Fozzy was talking to himself!

Fozzy The Bear · « **Reply #89 on:** April 05, 2006, 10:07:08 pm »

Quote from: quarterback on April 05, 2006, 07:10:40 pm

Quote from: markrvp on April 05, 2006, 06:06:31 pm
One of you guys (Brax & Fozzy) must change your Avatar. I get confused easily.

LOL me too. I thought that Fozzy was talking to himself!

There'd be nothing new there then.....

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

Havok · « **Reply #90 on:** April 06, 2006, 10:01:46 am »

Is this some kind of "Mini-me" situation?

Fozzy The Bear · « **Reply #91 on:** April 06, 2006, 07:35:44 pm »

Quote from: Havok on April 06, 2006, 10:01:46 am

Is this some kind of "Mini-me" situation?

Jah!! I cast Brax in a genetic mold made from a single strand of my hair.... With the aim of dominating the world (Evil Laugh) MMWWAAAHHH HAAA HAAA HAAA!

Starting with TRON Joysticks.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

MinerAl · « **Reply #92 on:** April 19, 2006, 03:12:23 pm »

How'd the resin ordering go?

Fozzy The Bear · « **Reply #93 on:** April 19, 2006, 05:58:52 pm »

Quote from: MinerAl on April 19, 2006, 03:12:23 pm

How'd the resin ordering go?

Still negotiating on that one Al..... The molds are almost ready though and I'll be posting a tutorial on that process, with photographs, soon, and asking Saint to host it on a permanent basis so that other people will be able to tackle re-casting of components for themselves.

I should have a better idea of the price per stick at the end of the month, or at least shortly into May, when the first ones come out of the molds.

At the moment, I'm waiting for the molds to properly cure, before we try and pull any handles from them. This should ensure that they have a longer working life and allow us to pull at least 100 sets over time, before they deteriorate.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

MinerAl · « **Reply #94 on:** April 20, 2006, 12:23:12 pm »

Cool.

Sorry to be a pest.

Looking forward to the tutorial too... maybe I'll have to make my own cocktail-tron sticks

MameMaster! · « **Reply #95 on:** April 20, 2006, 03:54:34 pm »

I'm in too....cool!

Brax · « **Reply #96 on:** April 20, 2006, 09:16:34 pm »

Enough foreplay! I wanna see the gory details!

PICS!

Fozzy The Bear · « **Reply #97 on:** April 21, 2006, 04:22:14 am »

Quote from: Brax on April 20, 2006, 09:16:34 pm

Enough foreplay! I wanna see the gory details!
PICS!

OK! I'm snowed under at work over the next three or four days... but I'll do my best to get a few pictures up next week.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

Fozzy The Bear · « **Reply #98 on:** April 26, 2006, 09:26:46 am »

Please bear with me on the photographs guys..... Very very snowed under with work at the moment... Might be a week or two yet.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

teef two · « **Reply #99 on:** April 26, 2006, 09:33:42 am »

NP Fozzy. A hobby does not the mortgage pay!

Havok · « **Reply #100 on:** July 10, 2006, 03:17:22 pm »

Any updates on this?

Need an intern?

ArcadeMaze · « **Reply #101 on:** July 10, 2006, 07:04:12 pm »

I would think so. I just read in the July issue of Gameroom magazine that they are going to sell for $20, including trigger.

CheffoJeffo · « **Reply #102 on:** July 10, 2006, 07:37:40 pm »

Can we all lay off of Fozzy, please ? If he weren't horribly busy with RealLife(tm), he would post something.

Brax is allowed to be impatient, the rest of us should shut up lest Fozzy decides not to go forward with a full run.

Cheers.

Havok · « **Reply #103 on:** July 10, 2006, 08:28:10 pm »

I offered my services as an intern - so I can ask... No pressure...

1UP · « **Reply #104 on:** July 10, 2006, 09:54:09 pm »

FWIW, the Tron bases are still in the works. The design has been finished for over a year, but in the restructuring of Spincade they have been put on the back burner until the cabs are officially released. The bases are pretty custom, not just an off-the-shelf Super. And the final design does work. Very well.

Quote from: MinerAl on February 23, 2006, 10:06:36 am

Although the handle is quite tall, one does not play Tron with their hand on top of the stick like they would with a ball top. In order to use the trigger, the bottom of your hand needs to be in only a little higher position than it needs to be using a bat stick. I don't know how you play, but I tend to move the stick with the base of my hand (my pinkie and ring fingers and the muscles in my palm on that side of the hand). I do understand that a longer lever makes it easier to exert more force, but I don't think the difference is as great as you make it out to be, since the hand position is only a bit higher.

This is correct. Using a Tron handle on a modified 8-way base is pretty much like operating a normal 8-way by gripping it rather than using the ball of your hand and fingertips, except you are holding it one inch higher. I have never had any problems, even with the admittedly cheap versions I built long ago for my home cabinet. The parts going into the new sticks are much heavier, and most of the stress is handled by the grommet.

Animeka · « **Reply #105 on:** July 11, 2006, 07:31:42 pm »

Quote from: 1UP on July 10, 2006, 09:54:09 pm

FWIW, the Tron bases are still in the works. The design has been finished for over a year, but in the restructuring of Spincade they have been put on the back burner until the cabs are officially released. The bases are pretty custom, not just an off-the-shelf Super. And the final design does work. Very well.

If I'm reading this correctly, you're working on tron bases for the repro sticks?

Marc


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