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Title: How can I go this thin?
Post by: vrf on January 26, 2006, 03:45:49 am

So I'd like to make a byrdo-style joystick with Sanwa parts. How would I mount the parts to get it as thin as this Byrdo creation? He says it is only 1.5 inches high. Does he have a sheet of metal under that CPO?

(http://www.byrdo.org/images/Arcade%20Stiks/Maya%202.jpg)

Thanks!
Vance

Title: Re: How can I go this thin?
Post by: Bones on January 26, 2006, 04:17:20 am

I don't know the answer but just thinking about it..... does it actually have to have a bottom piece?

Title: Re: How can I go this thin?
Post by: rugby1 on January 26, 2006, 04:23:57 am

Here's the link to one of his joysticks blueprints.... looks like there is a 1/4" bottom peice

http://www.byrdo.org/small_sanwa_blueprint.htm

Title: Re: How can I go this thin?
Post by: spiffyshoes on January 26, 2006, 09:46:44 am

You can get a mounting plate for the Sanwa Joysticks and then Top Mount them.  That is how he gets the box to be so thin.

Title: Re: How can I go this thin?
Post by: vrf on January 26, 2006, 11:01:38 am

Thanks for the replies! Spiffyshoes, do you mean the mounting plate that comes with the Sanwas from Himura?

(http://www.himuragames.com/images/joystick_8YT_03.jpg)

So I guess then I'd have to route the wood to the depth of the plate. Or cut some plexi to fit around it.

I love that slim look in the Byrdo sticks.

Title: Re: How can I go this thin?
Post by: javeryh on January 26, 2006, 01:54:16 pm

Those are some nice controllers...