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Title: any idea what kind/brand of joystick this is?
Post by: Xphile on February 08, 2003, 07:09:38 pm

on the ultimarc sticks the clear plastic thing swivels from 4 to 8 way, so it's not that one...and I can't find anything on the happs site with bases like this in the exploded views..any ideas what brand these are?

thanks,
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(http://ebay3.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_ec083e4748cb43f4e37f4abc08fc6399/i-1.JPG)

(http://ebay3.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_ec083e4748cb43f4e37f4abc08fc6399/i-2.JPG)

Title: Re:any idea what kind/brand of joystick this is?
Post by: NIVO on February 08, 2003, 07:54:57 pm

could they be SUZO?? Just a wild guess here.

Title: Re:any idea what kind/brand of joystick this is?
Post by: spidermonkey on February 08, 2003, 09:06:41 pm

Looks like a Sanwa from underneath but the bat handle is throwing me off. I don't know if Sanwa makes a bat handled stick or not. ???

Title: Re:any idea what kind/brand of joystick this is?
Post by: Grasshopper on February 09, 2003, 07:14:54 am

I've never seen one of those before. However it's definitely not a Suzo joystick.

Title: Re:any idea what kind/brand of joystick this is?
Post by: Minwah on February 09, 2003, 10:14:01 am

I *think* if it were Sanwa it would say so on the plastic round washer (just under the handle).  I can see it has something written there but what does it say?

Title: Re:any idea what kind/brand of joystick this is?
Post by: Brax on February 09, 2003, 11:17:52 am

wow, great restrictor.

Title: Re:any idea what kind/brand of joystick this is?
Post by: rampy on February 09, 2003, 03:37:50 pm

dumb question/suggestion... looks like the u.s. patent number is nearly clear enough to read ... and you *should* be able to pull tat up onthe us patent website (I  think) and at least divine the manufacturer (maybe)

good luck
rampy

Title: Re:any idea what kind/brand of joystick this is?
Post by: Xphile on February 09, 2003, 04:20:26 pm

i did do a search for the patent numbers in google before i asked, but was unaware you could search at the us patent site, thank you for that info..may come in handy :)

FINALLY got a response from the seller (after 4 days  >:( ), and he said the manufacturer is "Will Join" or "Chang tai", and the only other marking is "Zippy"... I found zippy microswitches, but Will Join is something that is virtually impossible to search for effectively and chang tai gives no english websites ...anyone heard anything about them?

Title: Re:any idea what kind/brand of joystick this is?
Post by: rampy on February 09, 2003, 05:55:32 pm

I got slightly less lazy and looked it up  (www.uspto.gov)

here's a link to the result (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5140313.WKU.&OS=PN/5140313&RS=PN/5140313)

*shrug* not sure that it does much good though...

good luck,

rampy