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Namco:


--- Quote from: Kevin Mullins on March 26, 2009, 12:52:52 am ---
--- Quote from: Namco on March 26, 2009, 12:45:09 am ---I think they gave you the wrong shaft. Sorry man.

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But apparently the pivot cylinder AND the actuator both fit on the shaft he has.
If he had the beefier (larger) stick, then neither of those would have gone on at all.

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Looking at again, I agree Kevin.

Payment_due, push harder man!!!

Kevin Mullins:

Yeah, I saw where you were coming from though..... I had to stop and think about it myself.

It'll turn out to be something simple. One of them slap your forehead things.

payment_due:

believe me, I've tried! I even have a rubber mallet and some bubble wrap I tried.. I literally tried bashing it in.

Will. Not. Budge.

So I figured what I would do is use my old shafts and new switch assemblies. I couldn't get the ERing on them either. I think I'm just going to get some Sanwa sticks with bat-tops, and get some octagonal gates to make them seem 'more American' and use those.  What pisses me off the most is that while I was trying to mess with the sticks, the CP fell and some of the brand new paint that I worked on for the last week was scratched off.

Namco:

I'm looking at your pic a little closer, and it does look like the actuator isn't up all the way. Could it be resting on one of the red switch nubs? Have you pressed them all in while pushing the actuator up and moving the stick around a bit? I know mine hangs up like that a lot and this one looks new with very tight tolerances, like no deadzone making it very easy for the actuator to push up against the fully extended switches.

Namco:

Here's my stick with the acutator down and the e-clip installed. It is pushed down and touching the base, and the shaft is sticking through and the e-clip is on the 2nd notch


In this pic I've removed the e-clip and the actuator has slid up and is now resting on one of the red switch posts.


Also, because the actuator is no longer pushing down, the round part underneath (z-stop which has the spring attached to it) is not being pushed up into the body of the stick. The actuator does fit onto the Z-stop, but rather pushes it into the body of the stick. Because the Z-stop is not pushed up, the shaft has "bottomed-out" in the body of the stick and you will not feel any spring resistance and you'll notice that the stick won't even want to move making it almost impossible to wiggle the stick to get the actuator clear of the switches. You have to push this round part up into the body of the stick. You'll feel the shaft against the spring and you'll be able to move the stick again. With that Z-stop pushed up, you can now place the actuator on the stick and wiggle it to get the actuator to clear the switches. Once you're clear of all the red switch posts, the actuator will be all the way down and exposing the shaft's e-clip notches will be easy. With my worn out stick it's easy to clear the actuator past the switch posts, but yours is new and has practically no deadzone it looks like.


So, take that actuator off and make sure you can push the z-stop in, it should be springy. Then get the actuator past those switches, may take some wiggling and some extra fingers, but it'll fit.

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