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1st install of Happ Supers - not 'clicking'??
BobA:
If it feels like you need 3 hands to set the clip in place (with pliers) and hold everything together with tension on the spring then you are doing it right. It is not easy and takes patience until you get the feel.
scotthh:
If you take the sticks out of the wood and move them around do the microswitches click? If they do, then the wood is your problem. If they don't you'll need to reassemble your sticks as that is the problem.
--- Quote from: pboreham on August 31, 2007, 07:53:09 pm ---thanks for that - i must be really dumb as I cannot see how the clip attaches! Does it just go at the bottom of the shaft which pokes through the bottom of the 'box' part?
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I have Competitions, not Supers, but I need to hold the shaft of the stick from the top and press the plastic actuator from the bottom towards the top. This "reveals" a slot in the shaft which the e-clip "slides" into. It is easier to slide it in than it is to slide it out. I can put it back in by hand. I need needle-nose pliers and/or a screwdriver to remove them.
--- Quote from: pboreham on August 31, 2007, 07:53:09 pm ---As for the size, shall I just make the hole bigger, or is it best to router the bottom of the cp? (I am using Plexi - or rather Lexan by the way!) Guess its easier to router the wood, than making the hole in the lexan bigger and risking cracking???
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I have Competitions in a 1/2" wood CP, and the sticks don't rub the wood. So I say remove 1/4" from the bottom of your 3/4" MDF and you should be fine. I'm assuming that the shaft is dead center in the 1 1/8" hole, if it's off, you might have a problem with one direction.
pboreham:
--- Quote from: brock.sampson on August 31, 2007, 08:35:52 pm ---The thing that looks like two cones glued together is the the part that should be hitting the metal bar on the switch. The narrower side at the bottom is 4 way, narrower side at top is for 8 way. Slide that up there should be some tension against the spring. At the bottom of the shaft there are two grooves. Push that part up high enough so you can slide that clip in a groove. You will most likely need some pliers to get the e-clip to snap into place. Hope that helps. Which groove to use is determined by how far you want the stick to come out of the top. Longer stick use the bottom groove, shorter stick use the top groove. I don't know if your sticks are bottom mounted or recessed from the top.
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Waiiiiit a minute (this is going to make me dumb poster of the month)...
The 2 'cone' part has to be installed AS WELL at the bottom of the shaft? When I look at the bottom there is already a cone shape there, so I assumed one was already installed?
I've just taken the controller out of the CP and tested it with the cone on and indeed it clicks the switches... but, it only just shows me the very bottom ring on the shaft to slide the clip onto. Once its back in the wood, it wont be possible to get the clip on? How much pressure do you have to put on sliding the pastic thing on the controller up before you can slide the clip on?
I feel so stoopid!
pboreham:
To save anybody wasting any more time, I am officially an idiot! :laugh2:
Now working - once I installed ALL the parts as you guys advised... I'll creep quietly out of the room now and let you all carry on!
Joystick Jerk:
Well, don't take it too hard. Those exploded view diagrams from Happ aren't the greatest, and it took me a little while to figure out where everything went myself.