let's are serious - other meny players from SRK give the same noticed:
Yes, I saw that discussion. In it, there were a lot of wildly misguided notions as to why there was a difference. I even registered intending to post in that bizarre thread, but never got around to doing it.
Again, different switches give a different engagement point. Even switches which provide these specifications provide a
range, as the manufacturing cannot be controlled so tightly in such an inexpensive part. This means that switches labeled with exactly the same part number will very probably have actuation points that are different by several degrees when triangulated to the stick.
The double-click issue I found once, and never again, followed the switch, not the actuator. It's very simple to see that it was a switch problem.
Trust me, the volume of these that pass through my hands would yield a "kick in the groin" of huge proportions if they were as bad as you are attempting to make them out to be. The only reason it has taken this long to surface is because the actuator issue is not a consistent problem. Some of the ones being shipped are perfectly fine and work extremely well. The important thing that you and others most likely don't realize is that plastic parts are made in multi-cavity molds, and each cavity needs to be individually machined. This ends up giving each part a specific personality. The faulty actuator is likely the result of only one cavity (out of many) that needs to be addressed in order to take care of it once and for all.
What really makes the issue difficult is when two people, who got their sticks from the same company on the same day, can't understand why one person says there's "no problem", while the other says they are "crap". And this is a problem because they are both correct, but neither knows quite why without more information. As this information is unlikely to arrive, or be properly considered by those individuals, we end up seeing uneducated speculation that does little more than create hysteria over a very small, very fixable issue.
So how about we give this "china crap" stupidity a rest and get concerned with getting the issue taken care of so that no-one in the community need be concerned about where the joystick was manufactured to ensure they get one that works well. The direction the U.S. dollar is heading means that the IL parts are going to get a lot more expensive very shortly, and some of us aren't paid in Euros.
RandyT