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| Kremmit:
Somebody dyed some white joystick balls brown a while back with the vinyl dye. They came out looking really good, except for the fact that they were brown instead of red. Somebody also used vinly dye on the SlikStik light-up balltops so they were blue instead of white when unlit- also looked really good. Obviously, white sticks will be the easiest to color- you try to make a yellow stick blue and you know what you're gonna get. The trick may be finding white sticks to dye in the first place. Sanwa sells white balls, and Wico's used to come in white, although they are kind of hard to come by in that color these days. It also may be hard to get an exact match for other parts on your panel. What kind of joysticks do you have, what color are they, and what color parts are you trying to make them match? |
| codeena:
Thanks for the replies! I don't know the manufacturer, but I think it may be an older Ultimarc. It has a switch for 4/8-way on the side (under the control panel). The handle is black. I'd assume that black would be pretty difficult to change to blue with the dye mentioned, but then again, I never even heard of it before this post. I'm looking to match the blue Happ buttons. |
| Kremmit:
Sounds like a T-Stick (no +). You might be better off seeing if Andy with Ultimarc can get you a replacement handle in Blue. Or there may be somebody on the board with an extra blue handle, if you post in Buy/Sell/Trade. Othewise, you'll have to go with the paint, I doubt that dye can turn the black anything other than bluish-black. |
| Vigo:
blue is a pretty common color, if you want to, you could find blue hanldles that you could interchange with your old handles...(I currently have non ultimarc handle in my ultimarc joysticks.) I doubt it would be too expensive either. If you post on the buy/sell/trade board, ask for blue joystick handles that would fit in your model of joystick...its worth a shot, that way you could get someone to check out the handles to see if they would fit your joystick before offering to sell them to you. you could also just take your chances elsewhere, ebay often sells misc. handles with no joysticks. But painting does work, you should expect that over the years, you may need to do a new paint job, joystick handles can get a lot of abuse, and can be sweated on. Paint can wear off, It probably will take quite a few years before that happens though. Good luck |
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