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Is Mike's DK replacement joystick decent?
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: blkdog7 on March 15, 2008, 05:03:34 pm ---Voila! It's like a new joystick! It's FAST, it's responsive, it's everything I dreamed it could be. Turns out that little rubber piece on the joystick shaft and below the ball was just too tight against the guard and was creating a lot of friction.
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Yeah, they are slick little joysticks. I don't really see why removing the clear dust washer that sits on top of the CP made a difference though. I would think the friction from that would be minimal. But I might be missing something, because I'm not sure what you mean when you say: "Turns out that little rubber piece on the joystick shaft and below the ball was just too tight against the guard and was creating a lot of friction." What "rubber piece"? You're not talking about the clear/amber collar that is directly below the balltop are you? If so, that shouldn't have been making any contact with the clear dust washer. If it was, your joystick is sitting too low for some reason.
Edit: You're not using the 1/8" thick black plastic base plate that is intended for use with metal control panels are you? That would cause the joystick to sit too low in a wooden CP, which could cause the amber collar to hit the clear dust washer.
dgordon86:
I don't mean to jump in, but this is a better time than ever to ask mike's arcade...
I ordered this complete dk setup from you
-- http://mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=CPDKONG
Curious to know if you guys carry a 4 way restricting plate for the joystick you send out with that CP
blkdog7:
--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on March 15, 2008, 06:03:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: blkdog7 on March 15, 2008, 05:03:34 pm ---Voila! It's like a new joystick! It's FAST, it's responsive, it's everything I dreamed it could be. Turns out that little rubber piece on the joystick shaft and below the ball was just too tight against the guard and was creating a lot of friction.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, they are slick little joysticks. I don't really see why removing the clear dust washer that sits on top of the CP made a difference though. I would think the friction from that would be minimal. But I might be missing something, because I'm not sure what you mean when you say: "Turns out that little rubber piece on the joystick shaft and below the ball was just too tight against the guard and was creating a lot of friction." What "rubber piece"? You're not talking about the clear/amber collar that is directly below the balltop are you? If so, that shouldn't have been making any contact with the clear dust washer. If it was, your joystick is sitting too low for some reason.
Edit: You're not using the 1/8" thick black plastic base plate that is intended for use with metal control panels are you? That would cause the joystick to sit too low in a wooden CP, which could cause the amber collar to hit the clear dust washer.
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Underneath the CPO it's all metal. Mine looks like this:
Piece #23-29 sits and touches the dust washer that is above the CPO if I leave it on. 1-70 is above the CPO and 23-14 is below the CPO. 23-16 is all metal and bolts directly to the wooden CP underneath.
blkdog7:
I also posted some detailed photos I just took of the underside of the CP. Please let me know if it looks like anything is not correct. It seems like the joystick could easily be raised by about 0.25". I can totally pull on it and bring it up.
The photos are here:
http://zerocommit.com/dk/DKCP/
Thanks for the help!
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: blkdog7 on March 15, 2008, 07:00:46 pm ---I also posted some detailed photos I just took of the underside of the CP. Please let me know if it looks like anything is not correct. It seems like the joystick could easily be raised by about 0.25". I can totally pull on it and bring it up.
The photos are here:
http://zerocommit.com/dk/DKCP/
Thanks for the help!
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Everything looks fine to me, even though I can see from your pictures how the amber collar would hit the clear dust washer. I was thinking that maybe your CP wasn't original and someone might have made a replacement without routing a recess for the joystick, but that's not it (your pictures clearly show a recess on the underside of your CP for the joystick). The only thing I can think of is; on another forum I have heard mention that there was a long shaft and a short shaft version of the Nintendo joystick. I don't know if that's true or not (I've only ever seen one shaft length for the Nintendo joystick). But if there really is two shaft lengths, and you have the shorter one when you should have the longer one, then that could cause the problem.
Also, is the CPO original? If the plexi is thicker than it is supposed to be, then that could cause the problem as well.
About being able to "pull up" a quarter inch; all Nintendo joysticks do that (as well as pretty much any other spring-centered joystick). That doesn't help your problem, unless you want to keep the joystick pulled up constantly while you play; which would suck.
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