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J-stik shaft diameter
ddoyle1996:
Can anybody with a J-stik tell me what the diameter of the shaft is? I'm thinking about using one of those to make a removable flight stick (using the standard Raider pro hack), and I need to know if I can use it with the Raider pro stick.
RoadhawK:
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RetroBorg:
I also would like to know if I can do a standard Raider Pro hack with a J-Stick or T-Stick as I would like to make my Tron stick change from 8-way for Discs of Tron to 4-way for Tron.
ddoyle1996:
This is what I'm planning. Hobby Lobby sells aluminum tubes up to 9/32" diameters. The tubes are soft and can easily bend, but the 1/4" tube fits inside the 9/32" tube very tightly. This gives me a pretty strong tube. It may be strong enough, but just to be safe I also plan on putting at least one more tube (a 7/32" tube) inside the 1/4" tube. Two tubes placed inside a third should be plenty strong.
The reason I am doing this is because no one else around here sells aluminum tubes. I like the 9/32" tube because the small plastic piece that comes out the bottom of the Raider Pro flight stick looks like it has a 9/32" hole in it. This means I can simply epoxy the tube into that hole. I also like the fact that the tube is hollow so you can run wires through it.
The only downside is the remaining parts of the e-stik that normally go on the shaft have bigger holes in them than the 9/32" shaft. I'm sure this could be fixed by placing tape around the 9/32" tube where those parts normally would be.
radiator:
j-stick shaft diam. approx 0.9cm (or just under 3/8 of an inch)
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