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Title: U360 casualty
Post by: Gray_Area on May 24, 2012, 04:00:36 am
Not me....though I do have a slight welt on my palm.

The stick went down a little too easily in Pac, and old Red got me scrambling up, just before the pellet. That was a little much.
Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: Los Abrazos Rotos on May 24, 2012, 05:21:52 am
Oh dear!  

Damn you Red!  

*shakes fist*
Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: mytymaus007 on May 24, 2012, 06:23:32 am
Piecess of JUNK you actually ripped the Ball From the Shaft :lol My recomendations were the original Bally/Midway leaf switch for Pacman. There is a reason the joystick weighs 2lbs  :blah:
Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: AndyWarne on May 24, 2012, 06:35:47 am
Piecess of JUNK you actually ripped the Ball From the Shaft :lol My recomendations were the original Bally/Midway leaf switch for Pacman. There is a reason the joystick weighs 2lbs  :blah:

This is a Sanwa stick as can be seen from the lettering on the dust washer. Sanwa do not make junk.

I would be surprised if anyone else has ever had a Sanwa handle break. We will replace it free of charge of course though.
Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: ShadeValryn on May 24, 2012, 10:22:10 am
5 bucks says that even after the ball top broke off, you still recovered and tried to keep playing  :laugh:
Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: eds1275 on May 24, 2012, 10:35:55 am
5 bucks says that even after the ball top broke off, you still recovered and tried to keep playing  :laugh:

I was thinking the same thing! Nothing gets in the way of me gaming!
Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: TOK on May 24, 2012, 11:36:43 am
Whoever did that was a frigging spaz. My buddy actually slid a cab on carpet playing Robotron. He is also a spaz.

Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: Gray_Area on May 25, 2012, 05:24:57 pm
5 bucks says that even after the ball top broke off, you still recovered and tried to keep playing  :laugh:

No, it was my last Pac. -frowns-  But I did fire up another game just to see how playable it was. I have replacements, though.


Whoever did that was a frigging spaz. My buddy actually slid a cab on carpet playing Robotron. He is also a spaz.



Perhaps. When some things don't work exactly as I wish. So be it. (I actually move my feet and chair during a heated game of Robotron...and sometimes in tight spots with other games.....)


Hence, thank you Andy, but I broke it. It must be noted that this shaft has withstood years of punishment.
Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: Gray_Area on June 10, 2012, 02:18:08 am
Well. Look at the base plate.
Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: AGarv on June 10, 2012, 10:34:00 am
Has the base bent at the edges or is it designed like that?
Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: Gray_Area on June 11, 2012, 05:37:44 pm
Has the base bent at the edges or is it designed like that?

No, I did that.

And, a souvenir. Local Ace guy was good to me.
Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: Gray_Area on July 22, 2012, 01:10:35 am
Um. So just now I replaced the over long shaft (somehow I had gotten a shaft for the top-mount restrictor kit) with the 'regular' longer shaft. And look what I found. I was a little hard on it the other night.
Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: Ginsu Victim on July 22, 2012, 09:41:12 am
Everyone's got a bit of curve to their shaft.
Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: Seith on July 22, 2012, 11:59:25 am
Everyone's got a bit of curve to their shaft.

 :laugh2:
Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: (+_+) on July 24, 2012, 04:28:46 pm
Holy okesmays,

How the hell did that happen. I see pics with a broken ball top, another with a bent bar and yet another with a bent plate.  :o
Either something was defective or somebody's playing with there joystick a little to roughly.  ;)

I'd ban somebody from playing my cab if they abused it. I saw one guy pull the joystick so
hard that he slingshotted to the floor as if he felt the immediate need to do a quick set of push ups in the midst
of a chaotic Robotron game.  True story.

I have been using my U360s for several years now and only suffered from a fried board once and
I think it was my own fault. These joysticks are well built so I can't believe it would break or bend
under normal usage. But then again, we may not have the same definition of "normal".


Title: Re: U360 casualty
Post by: Gray_Area on July 29, 2012, 02:17:48 am
Everyone's got a bit of curve to their shaft.

I've found that's usually related to beyond a certain length or/and girth.


.......heh heh heh heh. I'll spell it out. As has been mentioned in other threads, there are times when the U360 registers when it shouldn't, etc. This makes me angry. So I hurt the stick. (I've had to re-enforce the mounting holes. Imagine if I had a metal panel.) So, in a way, it's a plug for the robustness of them.