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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: steve_pss on July 18, 2003, 12:19:29 pm
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Anyone know of a way to convert the shaft and top on my supers to a longer ball top? I noticed some robotron joystick repro's for sale. Anyone try useing them?
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The Happ supers use a 10mm shaft, and Robotron (WICO) shafts are 3/8" diameter. I'm not aware of any 10mm shaft balltop handles.
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well thats just downright depressing..
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well thats just downright depressing..
This website might cheer you up!
http://members.aol.com/n2new/specialtyplastics.htm
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Sweet. Sent an email for pricing. Do the Super and Comp use the same shaft length and width?
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I haven't tried it myself. However according to previous threads on this board, the Competition and Super handles are indeed interchangeable.
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Dang, I always forget about that guy. I didn't know he had a website, though, I thought he was strictly eBay.
I haven't tried swapping the Comp & Super handles in quite a while, but IIRC there was something funky about the actuator on the Comp that caused the e-clips not to line up, or something like that. I do know that the Comp & Super have different length shafts, but there was something about the e-clips... Maybe it just needed a different sized spacer... Hmmm, if I get a few momemnts this evening, I'll check that out again because now I'm curious.
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Great! whenever OSCAR "gets curious" we end up finding there's somethign ELSE we need to buy =P
rampy
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always another adapter
always another switch
always another dollar
sigh
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Great! whenever OSCAR "gets curious" we end up finding there's somethign ELSE we need to buy =P
rampy
;D
Oh come on, its not that bad, is it? That's the fun part, I thought, to keep dinking around with the cabinets & controls. Who actually plays theirs? Last I checked, I had MAME .24 on mine... ;)
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It seems that the standard Comp handle is too short to use in a Super base. I don't know if n2new's Comp handles are longer with extra retaining ring grooves, but if not, then it doesn't look good.
Both handles, side-by-side:
(http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/supercomp1.jpg)
The Super conical bushing installed on the Comp. Note that the Comp bushing is very close in height, so either one will be about the same:
(http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/supercomp2.jpg)
The grooves are right where the actuator is going to be installed:
(http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/supercomp3.jpg)
Too short!
(http://www.oscarcontrols.com/tmp/supercomp4.jpg)
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I've found one of the original threads on this topic.
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=191;start=msg1182#msg1182
It appears that you can fit a Super handle to a Competition but not necessarily vice versa. However it should be possible to get Tom to add a couple of extra grooves to his handles.
Also it occurs to me that you could replace the Competition spacer (the one just below the bat handle) with a short Super spacer.
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If anyone's interested here is the reply I got:
They fit competition units, They are 10 each. if you order 6 or more they are 8.50 each.
I make them to order. Personnaly I think the super unit is a piece of junk. The competition unit is a much smoother unit and better built. If you want some to fit the super I can do a custom job, but you would need to order 4 or more. These are made to order, I need to recive payment before I make them, takes about a week.
Thanks
Tom
To bad the super is in such low regard to Tom. His work looks great but I just don't need 4 of them.. tempting tho...tempting...
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I'm sure you can find someone to go in on them with you... I would, but I just picked up a balltop off eBay....