you can either use spade bits, i can’t remember the exact size, or hole saws, they sell them at home depot.
SpiffyShoes
There is no Home Depot in Sweden :(.
JetEnduro
I dont think its possible to use spade bits for drilling holes in Lexan.
I’m interested in taking one of those Hori Soulcalibur joysticks and modding it to have a Sanwa Flash joystick and pushbuttons. Is this technically feasible and/or possible? If so, can this be done with almost no soldering, or will this involve a good deal of it?
I’m curious about this because my budget won’t allow me to actually get this stick built by someone else, but the prospect of taking a shot at it and building it myself is still very real. If anyone could supply details on this I’d be most grateful. Thanks!
It is possible to do but it does require some soldering. Here are some pictures of the one that Armad1ll0 did.
http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=38374
http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=38377
You can install the Sanwa Flash joystick without having to solder if you use Quick Disconnects. But the buttons you would have to solder, no way around it that I can think of. Also you would need to modify the Sanwa joystick in order to get it to fit in the Hori stick so you need a saw and a drill of some sort.
The Sanwa’s shaft is slightly too long for the Hori casing, then?
Any idea how much from the shaft I’d be removing? I want the stick at the regular ‘low’ position rather than riding much too high or it’d defeat the purpose of switching them out. I’m also guessing I’ll want to run a 5V to the stick itself, as though wiring a P360, right? :3
Does anyone have any pictures of how they did the buttons? My guess is a set of 6 clip-on Sanwa pushbuttons and just resolder the wires.
No the sanwa shaft should fit fine in the Hori SCII casing. It was only with the Hori/Namco sitcks that it had trouble fitting.
You can hook up the 5V cable and everything else by just using quick conects so you wouldn’t have to solder any thing. The only reason you would need to solder anything is if you are wanting to upgrade the buttons to sanwa buttons.
Yeah, I intend to put in Sanwa clip-on buttons.
To wire up the buttons you can either enlarge the holes on the PCB to fit the larger prongs on the sanwa buttons or you can just use wire to connect the buttons to the PCB.
I figure I’ll go with wire since it’s probably a bit safer, unless you have pictures of the larger holes on the PCB that I can use as guidelines or a diagram or something visual.
I’m going pretty far in the planning part, now it’s time to buy an SC / Tekken 4 stick. 
EDIT: Speaking of which, what modifications will the actual Sanwa stick require exactly? I just noticed you spoke of some. Whoops.
Quick Question from a noob: Is the Tekken 5 cabinet sticks all Sanwa specs? If so, any modifications towards it?
Okay, with all the problems people are having with controllers and converters on the xbox version of SFAC and wanting to have a lag free stick with headset support, I got the idea to do a mod. I finally ordered all the parts for a real DC agetec Sanwa mod, all new buttons (screw type) and an extra button for back (24mm to be mounted on the side) and a regular JLF with an octagonal plate. I have been working on hacking the pad for the project (a xbox 3rd party pad) and I have a few questions about the xbox and electronics in general. Will the screw buttons work for this mod without any routing of the plastic holes that surround each button? Also if anyone knows, will clips in be better, it seems they wont.
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I plan to hack the input slots on the xbox pad (well at least the one that supports the communicator for the headset) to the where the vmu slot used to be housed on the DC agetec stick. I was wondering if I can just cut the 5 metal pins that are soldered to each port and run wires between that and the seperated port without fucking anything up?
Disconnecting and resoldering should have no effect on the port being functional as long as I run all the wires from the traces or points to the correct pins on the port, right? -
I was wondering about the triggers, I heard they use petonometric (sic???) triggers on the xbox and I was curious if cutting them off will have any effect on the them. They are still there right now but I’de like to get rid of them for space purposes. I’ve left the analog sticks in tact because I know they can fuck up the pad a lot if removed and not replaced with the proper eletronics, but I was told SFAC has no mapping to the triggers, only to the 6 face buttons (x,b,a,y and black/white) and so I’m not sure if this would fuck anything up. I also plan to use this stick for GGXX reload if that makes any differences.
Thanks and have a good Thanksgiving.
You would need to cut the wings off. And you would have to widen the 4 octagonal holes on the top of the sanwa.
today i was looking to buy a router attachment but there where some weird named ones and i don’t know which one to use, which ones do you ppl use(names please? :pleased: ) to route out the wood for the buttons and the mounting plate?
think i caught the bug
my original sanwa dreamcast joystick “broke” tonight so i took it apart trying to find the problem. my guess was that the chord went bad somehow. so i took apart an old dc gamepad and swapped chords. low and behold it was fixed. that was my first time ever messing around with the internals of a joystick.
what did all this lead me to? well now im thinking about making some custom sticks. it doesn’t look all that complicated. im a computer technician, so im pretty familiar with pcb’s and all that. i just don’t have any experience or knowledge in soldering.
so i guess my question is this. if i were to start from scratch and build a sanwa ps2 stick, is there any way to do it w/o having to solder?
i did some searching around in this thread and found a nice diagram on how to build the control panel enclosure.
i guess what i’d like to know is where i could go to find all the parts i would need for my project. im not sure what all parts i would need. would anyone here be kind enough to point me in the right direction? perhaps give me a parts list of what i’d have to buy?
one more question. would it be possible to use the internal parts of an old ps1 or ps2 gamepad to use? in taking apart the dreamcast joystick and gamepad i noticed the internals were pretty much identical. so it would seem if a person had access to a bunch of old gamepads they could use them to build the sticks. unless there is a more preferred method?
thanks for any help you guys can give.
Found a US site that sells 30mm Hole Saws. Found one that’s retail. Yay!!!
the white/black buttons map automatically to L/R triggers respectively. Im not sure if that helps or not.
here is another site for the 30mm holesaw
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/productdetail.jsp?xi=xi&ItemId=1611747765&ccitem=
Ive been buying supplys from Grainger since 1994 and they are very good to deal with.
Alos here is a pic of my newest stick.
How does the hole saw work for MDF? I use a spade bit and like the way that works. It also drills through the lexan with no prob. How is the hole saw on lexan?
Thanks for the link btw.
Hori Neo Stick
Here is a pic of my Hori Neo w/Sanwa’s
Nice pics spiffy. I did not take a pic of the guts, because it’s not as clean as Spiffy’s :sad: