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Title: Swapping green stick for red on a Fanta arcade joystick
Post by: Mark Thomas on September 05, 2012, 09:56:40 pm

Hi folks,

I bought some of these sticks below and am wanting to change colour scheme on control panel.

1. Is it possible to change just the stick without having to buy a whole new joystick unit?
2. If it is where would I get them from, iv searched the net and can only find the green ones I actually want red handles.

http://etokki.com/Myoungshin-Fanta-stick-Green (http://etokki.com/Myoungshin-Fanta-stick-Green)

Title: Re: Swapping green stick for red on a Fanta arcade joystick
Post by: Mark Thomas on September 07, 2012, 11:30:42 am

Received update from website I bought them from and been told they used to produce them in red years ago but they stopped doing them now. They suggested I spray the sticks and to use red rubber coating sprays to add a top coat. Have any of you guys done this? And could you let me know what results you got.

Title: Re: Swapping green stick for red on a Fanta arcade joystick
Post by: PL1 on September 07, 2012, 11:51:08 am

The topic of the rubber coatings has come up before -- sometimes seriously (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,120563.msg1280840.html#msg1280840), sometimes not so seriously (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,121493.msg1288833.html#msg1288833).

The general consensus IIRC is that it's probably not going to last long on a joystick, but not sure if anyone has actually tested the stuff and posted results.


Scott