Guys, excuse me for being lazy, but I can’t crawl through > 30 pages… I am asked to mod this stick, haven’t gotten my hands on one of them yet. Basically, I just want to swap parts (Sanwa stick and buttons) - is it possible without soldering? Are the Hori buttons and the stick connected with quick disconnects? Thanks 
I saw these at dick smith’s too. I don’t think it will cause you problems to use it.
@areyouken: thanks for the response. hopefully the wires work fine. still a bit worried though haha.
I use 30 gauge wires on this PCB myself… No, you don’t have to worry about thinness. Now, if the wires were too thick a few points like the joystick directions might be difficult to solder…
Nope… You have to desolder the old buttons.
If you look at the picture with pcb that Ragnorok64 posted the wires there are thin so I don’t think you will have a problem.
Quick question to you huey where are you going to get your artwork printed? There’s no Kinko’s here anymore so I’m interested to see where your going to get it done.
@Bomberman: thanks for the reply in regards to my worries about the wires thinness.
@areyouken: yeah I realised the wires were thin - Oh, and another thing, the wires in that pic are only hooked up to one of the holes? The wires aren’t hooked up to the ground hole? Should we be wiring them up to both holes as the buttons have two pins?
Yeah I only recently heard that Kinkos closed down here in Melbourne (which is a real shame - that place saved my life so many times over the course of my uni degree. Luckily for me I can print stack loads of stuff at work now). I’m not quite sure where I’m going to get my artwork done - I’m thinking of ordering a custom print online from one of the links that were mentioned in this thread, or I may paint the top plate. How about you? Do you know any places that might do this?
That’s my PCB picture. The FS3 PCB is common ground, so you can just connect 1 ground wire from the board to a single button, and then run a wire form that button to the next button, and so on. This is called daisy chaining. It’s optional - you could just connect a wire to every ground point on the PCB, but my way’s cleaner.
Yeah I’m either gonna get it painted or gonna buy some vinyl.
Well now that im not getting a JLF stick, can a siemitsu ls32 be put in?
neemo6 go with an LS-33, shaft is shorter. I just ordered mine a few minutes ago actually, haha.
I think I like having a taller stick. Will the ls32 be to long or something to fit in the case? Also I see no options gates on these sticks, can you get a octo or round gate for them? What about bat tops? Thanx.
Yeah, from what I hear. The case is pretty shallow, but I’m sure you can fit it in there by making some modifications to the bottom of the plate. I think by default those sticks come with the 2/4/8-way gates on em, you just have to set it to which one you want (feel free to chime in if im wrong anyone). where are you ordering from? you should be able to get a bat top on w/ an adapter of some sort, i know they exist
Well I would have to order from Lizardlick since thats where my original order for the jlf and buttons was through. Found out ls33 shaft is 26mm and ls32 is 27.5mm, do I have enough room?
You’d better get on that fast, as they will not be taking anymore orders until April after 5PM EST tomorrow.
Can anybody shed some light on my situation as to whether or not this could spell trouble? I’m leaning towards it not being a problem since I know the guy uses the tool everyday.
I don’t have nearly enough experience to really tell you. If he’s experienced in working with PCB’s and you have confidence in him, go for it. I’m loving using a 15 watt this time around because even if I get sloppy and heat a point a lot I have minimized chance of doing permanent damage, I’m a novice, so that’s great.
Here are some pics of my Hori FS3 mod.
Parts:
Sanwa OBSF-30 x8 - White
JLF-TP-8Y
GT-Y
http://mysite.verizon.net/dinhdu/Arcade/stick_b01.jpg
http://mysite.verizon.net/dinhdu/Arcade/stick_b02.jpg
can anybody confirm that it’s possible to fit the Seimitsu LS-32-01 in the case by making modification to the bottom plate or making the shaft shorter by using a dremel ? or maybe both ?
That’s some nice work meanbeanmax.
Curious though what are the extra hook ups soldered in the joystick directional slots I know the JLF has a common ground so why are all the holes soldered in?