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Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: Oldskool on April 13, 2004, 09:04:20 am

Title: Wico Joystick Leaf Switch needed !!!!
Post by: Oldskool on April 13, 2004, 09:04:20 am
Dammit. I broke a tab off of one of my leaf switches.

Does anyone have an extra?

Centsibleamusements.com does sell them for 99 cents each, but they want a minimum order of $100.00 before they will ship out of country. (In my case, to Canada)     :P

Thanks.
Title: Re:Wico Joystick Leaf Switch needed !!!!
Post by: bigmoe on April 13, 2004, 11:31:33 am
Dammit. I broke a tab off of one of my leaf switches.

Man, I hate that....I have a couple like that too.  I think I'm gonna solder short wires with male disconnects to mine from now on...
Title: Re:Wico Joystick Leaf Switch needed !!!!
Post by: Oldskool on April 13, 2004, 11:58:03 am
Man, I hate that....I have a couple like that too.  

Well, I could buy 100 of them....

Do you happen to need 99 ?   :)
Title: Re:Wico Joystick Leaf Switch needed !!!!
Post by: Rocky on April 13, 2004, 12:00:35 pm
On some of the used controls I aquired, I've seen leaf switches that have had thin metal pieces soldered to complete the connection or create a new tab for the quick disconnects.  The nice thing about leaf switches is that they don't need much pressure to be bent and activated. Solder is more than strong enough to hold them.
Title: Re:Wico Joystick Leaf Switch needed !!!!
Post by: SirPeale on April 13, 2004, 12:39:10 pm
If you're talking about the ones here:

http://centsibleamusements.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=110

They're not for Wico joys.  I just picked some up (not from Centsible) and they don't fit my Wico leafs.
Title: Re:Wico Joystick Leaf Switch needed !!!!
Post by: Oldskool on April 13, 2004, 01:48:23 pm

Yeah, that's them.

They don't fit? In which way? Could they be altered to fit?

Boy, they look like they're the same.

Title: Re:Wico Joystick Leaf Switch needed !!!!
Post by: SirPeale on April 13, 2004, 01:55:03 pm
My Wico joys have a plastic tab that lays inline with the base of the switch, fitting into the little holes.  the holes are much smaller than the tabs on this plastic piece.  You might be able to widen them, I didn't try.

They're on my site.  Feel free to take them all off my hands.  I think shipping would be ~$2.50 to .ca (I think)
Title: Re:Wico Joystick Leaf Switch needed !!!!
Post by: Oldskool on April 13, 2004, 04:55:32 pm
They're on my site.  Feel free to take them all off my hands.  I think shipping would be ~$2.50 to .ca (I think)

A PM is on it's way.