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pcb:

Ok, I pulled a stick off a bunch of games:

TKGU (DK Upright), TKG3 Table (DK), TRS &  SDM tables and a VS Unisystem Upright. All the shafts are identical at:

78.80mm - 3.10" in length (+-.05mm)

The balls are different sized though.

TRS (Radarscope) and the SDM (Space Demon) Tables both have a ball diameter of 25mm, the rest have are 30mm.

Best,

 - Mike -


blkdog7:


--- Quote from: pcb on March 16, 2008, 06:17:46 pm ---Ok, I pulled a stick off a bunch of games:

TKGU (DK Upright), TKG3 Table (DK), TRS &  SDM tables and a VS Unisystem Upright. All the shafts are identical at:

78.80mm - 3.10" in length (+-.05mm)

The balls are different sized though.

TRS (Radarscope) and the SDM (Space Demon) Tables both have a ball diameter of 25mm, the rest have are 30mm.

Best,

 - Mike -


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Mike, my buddies DK Jr. stick (which appears to be completely original like the rest of the cabinet) is clearly longer than my stick. I have no idea where the hell my stick came from but it does seem to be a totally legit Nintendo stick. Mine doesn't have the insert screw, his does. Mine has the c-clip inserted at the very end of the shaft, his end shaft looks different and is squared off at the base.

MaximRecoil:


--- Quote from: pcb on March 16, 2008, 06:17:46 pm ---Ok, I pulled a stick off a bunch of games:

TKGU (DK Upright), TKG3 Table (DK), TRS &  SDM tables and a VS Unisystem Upright. All the shafts are identical at:

78.80mm - 3.10" in length (+-.05mm)

The balls are different sized though.

TRS (Radarscope) and the SDM (Space Demon) Tables both have a ball diameter of 25mm, the rest have are 30mm.

Best,

 - Mike -


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A lot of conflicting information here. Mike here from Mike's Arcade says that the ones he measured were all the same length, which included sticks from uprights (both wood and metal CP's) and cocktails. This makes the most sense to me given the fact that the metal CP joysticks already have that black plastic spacer plate to mount the sticks lower, so you'd think there would be no need for different shaft lengths.

However, a few others claim there are different lengths, with one person claiming 3 5/8" which would be more than a half inch taller than the shafts Mike measured (a significant difference indeed). Can someone take a picture of both lengths side-by-side to settle this? I think the problem might be that people might be using different points of measurement (e.g. to the top of the ball, to the bottom of the ball, or just the shaft with the ball removed).

MaximRecoil:


--- Quote from: blkdog7 on March 16, 2008, 06:39:34 pm ---Mike, my buddies DK Jr. stick (which appears to be completely original like the rest of the cabinet) is clearly longer than my stick. I have no idea where the hell my stick came from but it does seem to be a totally legit Nintendo stick. Mine doesn't have the insert screw, his does. Mine has the c-clip inserted at the very end of the shaft, his end shaft looks different and is squared off at the base.

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I've seen the pictures of the joystick from your machine and it looks like any other Nintendo joystick I've seen (I own 4 of them myself). I don't know what you mean by "squared off at the base". Also, what do you mean by "insert screw"? Do you mean in the balltop? If so, only the Nintendo joysticks with the removable balltop had a set screw. None of mine have that.

Can you get pictures of your friend's DK Jr. joystick shaft beside the one from your machine?

pcb:

Here is a picture of one of the shafts I compared, they are all the same here.

 - Mike -

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