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Is Mike's DK replacement joystick decent?
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MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: pcb on March 16, 2008, 06:51:17 pm ---Here is a picture of one of the shafts I compared, they are all the same here.

 - Mike -

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That's interesting. It looks like yours is squared off at the base like blkdog7 was talking about regarding his friend's joystick. None of mine are like that, nor do any of them have a removable balltop (no set screw). Mine all look like the one in blkdog7's pictures of the joystick in his own machine.

That squared-off extension would add length to the shaft but not effective length.
blkdog7:

--- Quote from: pcb on March 16, 2008, 06:51:17 pm ---Here is a picture of one of the shafts I compared, they are all the same here.

 - Mike -

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Yes! That's exactly what my buddy has. See that squared off end? If you go back and look at my photos you can see that my end is not like that at all.

Actualy, here's a photo:





pcb:
Yes, yours IS different, since there is no set screw, they probably didn't need the flat end to hold it while they put the ball on.  You said yours had a molded on ball too, right?  Strange.

 - Mike -
jimkirk:

--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on March 16, 2008, 06:43:49 pm ---
--- 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).

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Here is a picture of both sticks the one on the left is form a DK and the other came from an 8 way nintendo
MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: blkdog7 on March 16, 2008, 07:01:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: pcb on March 16, 2008, 06:51:17 pm ---Here is a picture of one of the shafts I compared, they are all the same here.

 - Mike -

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Yes! That's exactly what my buddy has. See that squared off end? If you go back and look at my photos you can see that my end is not like that at all.

Actualy, here's a photo:
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Yours is exactly the same as the four that I have here (mine don't have a removable balltop either).
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