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Slikstick still in business?
tumult:
just speculating, but I think they keep their personnel to a bare minimum so they can maintain those low, low prices ;) Can you imagine what the prices would be like if they hired a secretary?
but seriously, I ordered a classic a couple of years ago and everything went great. If their responses are lacking, its either the spam filter or they're incredibly busy putting other people's panels together.
ArcadEd:
I just wanted to ask something straight up. I've always had good communication with the slikstik gang. But is this common? I've considering having a lineup of control panel only boxes similar to slikstik available through arcade-in-a-box but I assumed slikstik had a pretty good hold on the market.
It's something to consider. If people would like another option for control panels I would be more than happy to give it a try. I already make custom ones for people if they ask, but it might be nice to just have a few standard options available in my store. And now is the time, since I have funds :).
Falkentyne:
My problem is that they did an absolutely -horrible- job on the joystick mounting.
The joysticks weren't even routed..even the -x-arcade-, which is mass produced, at least had the ticks routed correctly ! So the joysticks sat too low in the panel for anyone with big hands.
Also, the joysticks were simply force-screwed __IN__ to the wood. What happened to the normal bolt through method. And before someone thinks I'm nit-picking, one of the joystick screwholes became stripped and I had to screw another hole myself. :lame:
Using proper bolt-throughs, like Ed does on his arcadeinabox panels, would have prevented any of this from happening. (Yes I took apart the slikstik and had most of the parts built into an arcadeinabox (cab only); much happier with it :) Now if only Happs would get the spacers -correct- on the opticals...3 opticals, only one has perfect movement -.-...(and its the spacer that's the problem)
I had some other issues with after service support with slikstik but I'm not going to bother to post it.
zaphod:
--- Quote from: ArcadEd on April 10, 2006, 06:45:47 pm ---I just wanted to ask something straight up. I've always had good communication with the slikstik gang. But is this common? I've considering having a lineup of control panel only boxes similar to slikstik available through arcade-in-a-box but I assumed slikstik had a pretty good hold on the market.
It's something to consider. If people would like another option for control panels I would be more than happy to give it a try. I already make custom ones for people if they ask, but it might be nice to just have a few standard options available in my store. And now is the time, since I have funds :).
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Another option is always great. SS has their market, X-gaming has theirs, but there is plenty of room for alternatives. Especially if you could price it competitively, eg. between X-gaming prices and SSs. Same with delivery time- three weeks or less from payment to delivery would be ideal.
RobotronNut:
--- Quote from: Falkentyne on April 10, 2006, 06:54:52 pm ---My problem is that they did an absolutely -horrible- job on the joystick mounting.
The joysticks weren't even routed..even the -x-arcade-, which is mass produced, at least had the ticks routed correctly ! So the joysticks sat too low in the panel for anyone with big hands.
Also, the joysticks were simply force-screwed __IN__ to the wood. What happened to the normal bolt through method. And before someone thinks I'm nit-picking, one of the joystick screwholes became stripped and I had to screw another hole myself. :lame:
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i don't like the bolt-thru method. i don't like the look, and i'm pretty sure i wouldn't like the feel. if you don't bolt thru, you need a lot of wood to hold the screws, hence no routing, unless you use RickDIII's method (which i like, but it eats up a bit of real estate.)
so far, my slikstik is holding up well. i haven't heard of anyone else ripping out a joystick, but would like to know if this is a widespread problem with bottom-mounted joysticks in 3/4" panels.
w.r.t. communication: i found slikstik's email communication to be unreliable but their phone availability was good.
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