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--- Quote from: AndyWarne on April 03, 2008, 03:15:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: Bender on April 01, 2008, 10:03:17 pm ---I did actually get it to work. I took a bat top U360 I had and drilled the shaft about 3/4 of the way down with a drill press not really ideal but good enough to find out if my design would work, then drilled a hole perpendicular to the shaft  and put a spring pin through just above the spring, I had to cut some groves in the base for the pin to slide into(that's what keeps it from spinning) it works perfectly the joystick doesn't spin and I got the wires through and the button works!


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When I tried something like this I found it interfered with gameplay. If the stick ends up being rotated so its limiting against the pin, the movement of the stick in one specific direction is interrupted because the motion tends to want to push against the pin. Not sure if you are finding this.

Andy

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Do you have any other suggestions then? Cause making the joystick have an LED on the top is one step to making my CP complete. After that I just need a lighted spinner and perhaps lighted Lightguns. That'd be awesome.

Bender:


--- Quote from: AndyWarne on April 03, 2008, 03:15:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: Bender on April 01, 2008, 10:03:17 pm ---I did actually get it to work. I took a bat top U360 I had and drilled the shaft about 3/4 of the way down with a drill press not really ideal but good enough to find out if my design would work, then drilled a hole perpendicular to the shaft and put a spring pin through just above the spring, I had to cut some groves in the base for the pin to slide into(that's what keeps it from spinning) it works perfectly the joystick doesn't spin and I got the wires through and the button works!


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When I tried something like this I found it interfered with gameplay. If the stick ends up being rotated so its limiting against the pin, the movement of the stick in one specific direction is interrupted because the motion tends to want to push against the pin. Not sure if you are finding this.

Andy

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I Had to remove a bit of material from the plastic base but it doesn't seem to interfere withe the gameplay at all
Pics soon I promise!

although my second Idea I think is better, I'll have a post of that soon here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=78652.0


RayB:

Hello.
 :D

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