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Crazy Cooter:

--- Quote from: PoDunkMoFo on May 09, 2005, 01:55:16 am ---I have been doing some preliminary research on joystick grommets.
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markrvp:
1up is getting these somewhere as he said in his Tron Handle thread that the 49-ways he is selling will have a heavier duty grommet (plateform). 

1up - will you share the source or offer these for sale?

spidermonkey:
The correct name for these "grommets" are "plateforms" which are used for many applications other then joysticks. Lord Manufacturing was the primary supplier for Wico's leafswitch joysticks as well as Midway's Pac-man style sticks and the "Tron style" family of trigger sticks. I looked into this a while back and got frusterated with trying to find a distributer because Lord Manufacturing wouldn't sell to me directly. If I remember correctly I found that the square plateforms used for Pac-man style sticks and the somewhat diamond shaped plateforms (not to be confused with restrictors) used for Tron style sticks are still made however the square plateforms used on Wico sticks are no longer made. The plateform for a Wico leafswitch stick and the Midway Pac stick are basically the same unit with the same bolt pattern

Kremmit:
Maybe there's a version with a hole larger than the original Wico grommets.  Then all we'd need was a sleeve of the correct thickness.

JODY:
I found a few manufacturers about a month ago for platform vibration dampeners and was looking into it.  Spent some time trying to find one the right size.  Didn't find one, but didn't do a real thorough job.  The closest was the correct size except the hole through the center was too small.  Also there were options for how stiff they would be.  Didn't have an idea what the Wico specs were.

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