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Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: Kremmit on November 12, 2003, 09:18:40 pm

Title: need leaf switch for joystick
Post by: Kremmit on November 12, 2003, 09:18:40 pm

So I picked up a Kicker game (for free!) the other day, game coins up & you can hear it play, but no picture.  OK, get monitor chassis rebuilt... Done.  Time to play... WTF!?  Can't move straight up, but every time I go left, I go up too!  Figure I've got some leaf switch alignment issues on the joystick, but open it up & Nooo, they're all aligned right... all three of them.  Some goof lost the switch for "up" , so he just wired the loose wire to the same switch as "left".   You can sort of play, it just takes some getting used to :P

Or, I could get a new leaf switch... the one with the shorter "leaves" on it that goes on the bottom of a joystick, not the regular one from the bottom of a button.  Anybody got one, mabye?

Thanks!

richard
chuck_l_knutz at yahoo.com

Title: Re:need leaf switch for joystick
Post by: paigeoliver on November 13, 2003, 12:27:40 am

I have lots of them. Is it a Wico type stick, or another brand?

Or, basically, just measure the length of one, and tell me exactly how many pieces of metal there are, and if there is a plastic part involved.

Or take a picture. I don't want to be sending you the wrong one.

My price is one postcard (I put postcards from different internet people on my fridge).

Title: Re:need leaf switch for joystick
Post by: Kremmit on November 13, 2003, 06:01:28 pm

Postcard sounds like a heck of a deal to me.   :D

The whole switch, from tip of leaves to end of base, is 1 7/8 inches.
The leaves are  1 1/8 inches.
There is a plastic part between the leaf the stick pushes and the stick itself.
If you have the little silver angle bracket, I'm missing that, too- if not, no big deal, I'm sure I can make something that will work.

You can e-mail me an address for a postcard:  chuck_l_knutz at yahoo.com
(just fix the @ and lose the spaces - keep the underscores)

Thanks, man!

-Richard

Here's a picture:

Title: Re:need leaf switch for joystick
Post by: Grasshopper on November 13, 2003, 06:14:25 pm

It looks like you've got one of the Wico clone joysticks. However I'm pretty certain that the leaf switches are interchangeable with the ones fitted to a genuine Wico joystick.

Title: Re:need leaf switch for joystick
Post by: paigeoliver on November 14, 2003, 12:32:50 am

Yeah, that is not a wico joy, but those are the same leaf switches. I figured it would be that type, but I had to be sure, as I know I have several leaf joys that use other kinds of leaf switches.

I do not have one of those metal brackets though. You should be able to find something close enough at the hardware store though.