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Ummon:

--- Quote from: drpcken on August 19, 2009, 12:00:00 am ---It looks like something that Indiana Jones would have half of, and have to go on a dangerous mission to recover the other piece.  A face would probably melt and he'd have a foreign sidekick for comic relief.

I better write this down...

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Hahahahah, yeah.



--- Quote from: isucamper on August 19, 2009, 08:24:50 am ---How the heck did that happen?

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I was waiting for that. I guess ya all don't know me well enough yet. I fu...um, I broke it Ginsu. It wasn't performing properly, so I smashed the shaft to the side and downward. All warranty 'rightfully' voided and such. While I haven't done it a lot, it wasn't the first time, and I don't know whether it was already getting fatigued.

Anyways, don't do that, folks.

severdhed:
ouch...that sucks.  You must have been pretty rough with that...kinda like how my wife plays PacMan.  I am so afraid my u360s are going to end up destroyed because of her. 

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: Ummon on August 20, 2009, 08:49:12 pm ---I fu...um, I broke it Ginsu.

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Still, they shouldn't break that easy. I've been pretty rough on my U360s trying to see if the magnet would come off, but what you've managed is insane.

Turnarcades:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on August 20, 2009, 09:05:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ummon on August 20, 2009, 08:49:12 pm ---I fu...um, I broke it Ginsu.

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Still, they shouldn't break that easy. I've been pretty rough on my U360s trying to see if the magnet would come off, but what you've managed is insane.

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What's likely happened there is that the restrictor plate probably wasn't fully turned to either 4-way or 8-way, or the screws are a little loose and rough play has made the plate slowly shift round, then you've hit it hard in a direction that contacts the plate without knowledge it had turned. A friend reported this to me once and when I inspected the stick, sure enough the plate screws were too loose. That, and I happen to know he shakes the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of his cabinet when he plays it. Dunno why some people are so rough!

Ummon:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on August 20, 2009, 09:05:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ummon on August 20, 2009, 08:49:12 pm ---I fu...um, I broke it Ginsu.

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Still, they shouldn't break that easy. I've been pretty rough on my U360s trying to see if the magnet would come off, but what you've managed is insane.

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When I'm pissed, I hit it pretty hard. On numerous occasions, with the side of my fist, I've tried to put my trackball through the panel, but that's just resulted in bruising my hand bone.



--- Quote from: Turnarcades on August 20, 2009, 09:19:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on August 20, 2009, 09:05:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ummon on August 20, 2009, 08:49:12 pm ---I fu...um, I broke it Ginsu.

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Still, they shouldn't break that easy. I've been pretty rough on my U360s trying to see if the magnet would come off, but what you've managed is insane.

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What's likely happened there is that the restrictor plate probably wasn't fully turned to either 4-way or 8-way, or the screws are a little loose and rough play has made the plate slowly shift round...
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No no. Notice in the first picture, the screws locking the restrictor down are, both, aligned with the pcb mounting brackets, and are all the way down inside the restrictor recess. The left piece of the plate was so tight, partly becuause it was jammed down against the other half, I had to unscrew both sides of the plate to get the left one loose.

Incidentally, I haven't bothered to mix up some JB weld I got, so have been using a special restrictor I had made some time ago that is maybe a third tighter than the Ultimarc one. Kinda difficult on diagonals, but I almost strictly use this stick for 4/2-way games....so that leaves diagonal games. I'm gonna have to either fix the plate, or try some fractional values in ultramap. HM. Don't recall anyone saying they have so stay tuned.

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