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Balltop on a Happ Competition?
RandyT:
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--- Quote from: spiffyshoes on October 14, 2005, 11:13:31 am ---Specialty Plastics used to make a Ball Top that fit Competition Joysticks. They are nice and shiny.
http://members.aol.com/specialtyplastic/Joysticks.htm
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$32.50 a pair. Ouch. Versa-ball is $12 each while SlikStiks are like $21 to $29 each. You'd think this would be cheaper
-pmc
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Economies of scale. They'd be much cheaper if they were making them in the numbers that Happ makes them (or rather buys them), but these are specialty parts.
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Also don't forget that polished stainless steel is not the same as chrome plated cold rolled. The mass marketed sticks will eventually rust and get nasty. How long that will take depends on the amount of acidity in the oils in your skin, the humidity of your environment and the thickness of the chrome plating.
A stainless steel shaft can be made to look like new pretty much forever.
RandyT
pmc:
It's just a pisser that the sticks are $14 and you'd think that the ball tops would be a fraction of the $14 or at least a Happ option. I understand that this is a niche thing and costs necessarily correlate to that fact. I'm looking for the easy alternative and to some extent, that appears to be the j-sticks that I started with! ;)
-pmc
spiffyshoes:
I think the Ball Top Handles from the Happ Ms Pac/Galaga sticks will fit on a competition joystick.
pointdablame:
The Ms. Pac sticks work on Supers, since they are just modified super bases to begin with. I'm not sure if they work on comps though.
If a super stick fits on a Comp base, then the Ms. Pac Reunion stick might work on the comp, but I have a feeling that a Super shaft won't work on a Comp base... never tried it myself though.
spiffyshoes:
I used to have a Ms. Pac Reunion stick and it seems like I tried putting the shaft on a competition stick and it worked perfect.
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