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Making a U360 into a top fire!
Bender:
OK after reading this thread and looking at the stick I think I have come up with a solution
on the U360 there is a plastic collar above the spring, if you put a pin through the shaft there and made a notch in the plastic piece with enough room for the joystick to operate smoothly the stick wouldn't rotate and you could have the wire come out of the pin
I think I'm going to try it
Does anybody have suggestions for the small button that would go on top?
Franco B:
Im actually turning some hollow U360 shafts for someone this week.
The easiest solution I can see is to have two bullet type connections in the wires going from the base of the stick to the PSU.
Al long as the 'bullet' connections are the weakest link in the chain then the connections will pop out of there sockets which can be easily reconnected.
I don't tend to twist my joysticks and I cant imagine anyone playing on my cab twisting them (to a point where it will break a wire/solder joint) so for me, anything more than the above is over engineering the solution.
Havok:
--- Quote from: whammoed on January 03, 2008, 12:50:22 pm ---Screw audio jack into end of stick. Use right angle audio cable:
--- End quote ---
Hey Andy,
How about doing this, but integrating a magnet into the audio jack? That way you could still have the ability to spin the joystick, if even by accident, but still maintain the magnet in the correct position?
Bender:
I did actually get it to work. I took a bat top U360 I had and drilled the shaft about 3/4 of the way down with a drill press not really ideal but good enough to find out if my design would work, then drilled a hole perpendicular to the shaft and put a spring pin through just above the spring, I had to cut some groves in the base for the pin to slide into(that's what keeps it from spinning) it works perfectly the joystick doesn't spin and I got the wires through and the button works!
I'm going to try it with a ball top next
and you could use the same technique to do a LED ball top
I'll post a picture soon
one joystick to rule them all!
Cornchip:
Havok....the U360 shaft is incompatible with the 8mm thread of an audio jack due to it's small diameter. This is also the problem with the JLF as well. To do a proper job you need to increase the shaft diameter. That just isn't going to happen until you put a larger hole through the ball pivot and use a tension spring with a bigger inside diameter.
Cornchip.
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