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Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: ElfShotTheFood on June 15, 2007, 12:01:08 am
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Does anyone have the joust cocktail joysticks? they are smaller than the regular joust 2-ways, almost nothing to them at all. I am planning on building a joust cocktail with some swappable panels, but i would like to make an original set of panels for it. I keep seeing pics of the horribly converted joust cocktails, so somebody must have a couple of those tiny 2-ways somewhere.
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I think I've seen these repro'd somewhere, but can't find it now. I'll look through my past searches and see if I can find it again. Right now, all I keep finding is the repro'd art....
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I have searched and searched, with no luck. does anyone know if the defender or moon patrol cocktails used the same small 2-way sticks?
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Steven at ArcadeShop had repro shafts for them, but no bases and I have not seen anybody with bases. Sorry. :-\
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I know the mechanics of the Defender and Joust cocktail sticks are the same because I've been working on a Defender cocktail restoration. I searched the web and ebay for pictures to help me in my restoration, so I ended up with pictures of both control panels.
I had one good and one bad stick on my Defender, so I bought a set from a user here that also had one good and one bad ball top so I ended up with one good set. I still have the two extras, along with a spare set of hacked cocktail control panels that I don't know what to do with.
Both of my spares have rust on the mounting brackets, but are still useable. One of the sticks has a melted spot about the size of a dime, and the other has a similar sized gouge taken out of it. I don't have pictures of them right now, but I can take some.
Here are the reference photos I have that shows the sticks are the same:
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Looking at your other post, it sounds like you already have the Joust ball/shafts. If you have the ones for the cocktail, then they would fit my extra parts perfectly. I just snapped a couple pics, showing the damaged balls and the extent of the rust. Let me know if you're interested:
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The shafts i have are the upright style. the only place I have found that even mentions the cocktail shafts is specialty plastic but they don't appear to be in business anymore. :(
Heres the pic though
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Odd, Steve used to stock both upright and cocktail shafts, or at least I seem to remember it that way.
Yep, sadly Specialty Plastics isn't around any more.
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Since you are not retrofitting the sticks to an existing cabinet, I would just use the upright sticks.
An even better solution would be to find a set of the Joust optical sticks, and use the handles on Sinistar/Arch Rivals sticks.
That would give you 49-ways on the panels, and let you use GGG interfaces on them, but you would still have Joust authentic appearance.
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I'm planning on swappable panels for other games, I would like to have a real joust board set in it and the authentic controls, but i keep getting outbid for the boards on ebay. apparently everyone wants a set of joust boards. I'll probably mame it until i can get the cash to actually win a joust board set auction and then make it a joust/mame combo.
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Ok, bases found, anyone know where i can get the ball and shafts for the joust cocktail?