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Title: What is a Grommet?
Post by: Hawk Daddy on April 16, 2007, 11:48:52 pm: I saw that ponyboy had some for sale and was just wondering what they were.

Hawk
Title: Re: What is a Grommet?
Post by: shardian on April 17, 2007, 12:04:58 am: A grommet is the rubber support in a wico leafswitch joystick that returns the shaft to a centered position.
Title: Re: What is a Grommet?
Post by: markrvp on April 17, 2007, 12:23:04 am: Quote from: shardian on April 17, 2007, 12:04:58 am
A grommet is the rubber support in a wico leafswitch joystick that returns the shaft to a centered position.

Not just Wico joysticks - grommets were used in many joysticks.
Title: Re: What is a Grommet?
Post by: Kevin Mullins on April 17, 2007, 12:42:23 am: Quote from: markrvp on April 17, 2007, 12:23:04 am
Not just Wico joysticks - grommets were used in many joysticks.

Atari sticks..... Battlezone, Food Fight, Red Baron, etc.

But a grommet could also be considered the rubber "doughnut" that wires are fed through on say a metal panel to prevent chaffing the wires.

I'm not sure which "grommets" Ponyboy actually has...... never looked to be honest.
If he's calling them "centering Grommets", then they are joystick related.
Title: Re: What is a Grommet?
Post by: Clu on April 17, 2007, 01:04:14 am: I thought that was Wallace's dog.
Title: Re: What is a Grommet?
Post by: SavannahLion on April 17, 2007, 01:28:24 am: Quote from: Clu on April 17, 2007, 01:04:14 am
I thought that was Wallace's dog.

That's Gromit.
Title: Re: What is a Grommet?
Post by: fjl on April 17, 2007, 05:15:22 am: :laugh2:
Title: Re: What is a Grommet?
Post by: missioncontrol on April 17, 2007, 06:39:02 am: Quote from: SavannahLion on April 17, 2007, 01:28:24 am
Quote from: Clu on April 17, 2007, 01:04:14 am
I thought that was Wallace's dog.

That's Gromit.

well then, who's that purple thing that hangs with Ronald McDonald?
Title: Re: What is a Grommet?
Post by: shardian on April 17, 2007, 08:18:42 am: Ponyboy is selling wico grommets, thus why I said wico stick. I bought two off of him a while back, they will make a crappy old stick come back to life for sure.
Title: Re: What is a Grommet?
Post by: horseboy on April 17, 2007, 08:57:44 am: Quote from: missioncontrol on April 17, 2007, 06:39:02 am
Quote from: SavannahLion on April 17, 2007, 01:28:24 am
Quote from: Clu on April 17, 2007, 01:04:14 am
I thought that was Wallace's dog.

That's Gromit.

well then, who's that purple thing that hangs with Ronald McDonald?

That's Grimace.
Title: Re: What is a Grommet?
Post by: (+_+) on April 17, 2007, 09:43:22 am: These are also grommets. You'll see these on desks. They prevent wires from fraying against roughly cut wood edges.

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