Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: AGarv on December 22, 2002, 07:27:51 pm
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about offering a "Discs of Tron" style spinner control, please take a look at this auction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13718&item=749220858&rd=1
That's right $129.07 as of this posting, and over three days left in the auction!
What is wrong with people that they'd pay so much?!!?!
This one killed me too;
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13718&item=748966933
Over $31 and a day remaining for two scratched up atari start buttons...
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Well, these aren't necessarily Mamesters. Maybe just some folks trying to restore some Atari cabs...
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What is wrong with people that they'd pay so much?!!?!
It is a pretty specialized controller that's not available for purchase elsewhere. I think that your "What is wrong with people that they'd pay so much?!!?!" question could be applied to most of us here, after all. ;)
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Ahh, I haven't seen that DOT spinner for a while...
The current owner was very gracious and allowed me to hang on to that spinner for a loooong time. Long enough to create shop drawings from it that are accurate enough for a faithful reproduction. ;)
There are three pieces to the spinner that would require custom machining, so it may not be a cheap repro!
The biggest problem I've had so far is finding suitable leaf switches for it. I have yet to find a reliable supplier of that particular style of leaf switch, so the plans may need to be altered a bit to substitute microswitches in their place.
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Must admit i would be in line for a DISC of Tron Spinner in a Heartbeat!!! (in fact right after christmas I gotta Order my Spinner from oscar)
Clok