How does Ultimarc E-stik rotate?

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Mamezilla:
Is there someone in Canada who ordered in the past some e-sticks ? What did it cost you at the end, with shipping, custom and duty charges ? or does Andy have distributors in Canada ?

Also, are those sticks easy to mount on a 5/8" panel ? Thanks

1UP:

--- Quote from: Smittydc on March 10, 2003, 04:00:26 pm ---He's asking about rotating the whole joystick, not the restrictor plate. The e-stick is held in place with one big nut on the bottom (no screws, like buttons), so to rotate it 45 degrees, you just grab the base on the top and turn it. Works fine as long as you don't have it tightened down too hard.

If you plan on doing this, make sure your buttons on your CP aren't too close to the stick, or they'll get in the way when you try to rotate it.

--- End quote ---

Uhm...you can do it that way, but it's not really intended for that use. The stick should really be tightened down to the cp securely. You're supposed to go under the CP to rotate the switch plate from below. It seems to me that it would be fairly easy to make a lever attached to the switchplate, so it could be rotated from above. I may make that a future project of mine... You can do what you want of course, but I wouldn't recommend playing much with a loosened joystick.

And BTW, the sticks work fine with 5/8" panels as that's what I'm using (should handle anything from 1/4" to 3/4")

jdjuggler:
I think we're getting mixed up here.
It appears that the restrictor plate at the bottom of the joystick changes the stick between 4-way and 8-way.
What we're trying to do is rotate the stick from a straight 4-way to a diagonal 4-way, which is the job of the switch plate (on top).
This is a quote from ULTIMARC.COM regarding the E-Stick "Another feature: the switch-plate can be rotated 45 degrees for games such as Q-Bert!"
So, I'm guess that it was meant to be rotated from the top for 45 degree games. I'd like to hear more from people that actually use the stick this way.
Any other thoughts?

rampy:
not to confuse the issue further - but I thought if you rotated the bottom restricter "half way" between 4way and 8 way you'd get the same effect... ymmv

maybe 1up could comment on that (him actually having an e-stick and all)

rampy

Smittydc:
jdjuggler has it right.

My main Control Panel uses 2 E-sticks. That's how they work. There's a dial on the bottom to switch the stick 4-way to 8-way.

Since the entire joystick is not screwed into the panel in any way, you can then rotate the entire unit 45 degrees to play q-bert, congo bongo, etc.

1up: it's not "loose" in that it's bouncing around, it's loose in that you can turn it when you grab ahold of the top square and apply a fair amout of force.

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