I know you are a busy man Saint but I have been away for quite awhile and I just found this
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This site offers an incredible variety of custom designed arcade control consoles. The founder is also a regular contributor to the message board and a great guy. A brief summary of the custom-built arcade joysticks: .....
For those of you who dont know me (which is probably most of you now) I used to own that site and participate in the forums quite a bit but I havent built anything arcade related for about 8 years....although it appears I am back in bussiness

even though I didn't know about it.
Anywho, the reason I am here now is that I am going to build again but I need some info to catch up on the times. For example, I don't want to build a spinner from scratch like I used to especially when I know there are some pretty nice ones out there now. However when I search around the first spinner link is always Oscar who is not in business anymore.
Is there a 'current' FAQ available at this time? Basically I need to find the best spinners, trackballs (I used to use Happs), enocder (I used to use Hagstrom), and the other various controls....but I don't want to have to stumble through all of the dead vendors.
Thanks for any help.