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Title: Are these the spring wicos
Post by: Matt Berry on December 17, 2004, 12:18:00 pm

I was wondering if these were the spring based wicos that everyone likes, or are they the wrong ones

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13718&item=6139777001&rd=1

Title: Re: Are these the spring wicos
Post by: Hiub1 on December 17, 2004, 12:35:04 pm

Those DO have the rubber grommets in them. I bought a blue one from that guy, but my only complaint was that the hole on the top of the plate is square, so it seems like it was a 4-way base or sometihing because the diaonals are very prominent.

Title: Re: Are these the spring wicos
Post by: Matt Berry on December 17, 2004, 01:53:27 pm

Smack, hits self in head. Yeah I see that now I look a little closer at the picture. How do the microswitched wicos compare to the leaf switch ones?

Title: Re: Are these the spring wicos
Post by: NoOne=NBA= on December 17, 2004, 01:58:34 pm

Quote from: Hiub1 on December 17, 2004, 12:35:04 pm

...my only complaint was that the hole on the top of the plate is square, so it seems like it was a 4-way base or sometihing because the diaonals are very prominent.

It's the 8-way micro base.
They have the square restrictor, and square actuator like most of the other 8-way micros.

If it were a 4-way base, it would have a DIAMOND shaped restrictor, to guide it to the 4 directions.

Title: Re: Are these the spring wicos
Post by: patrickl on December 17, 2004, 04:26:45 pm

I checked the old Wico catalog for the nmber mentioned in the e-bay auction. I could find number 15-371000. It didn't answer the question, but the mention of "audio feedback too!" as a special advantage of this stick made me smile:

(http://arcade.laweb.nl/BYOAC/Wico_15-371000.gif)