Just as the title says.
I plan to refurbish a broken wooden fightstick, so ideally, I’d want to replace the parts with an American-style stick.
I have relatively easy access to Happ sticks (i.e. aliexpress), but I want to see if I can get the iL Eurosticks.
Is there a store somewhere around the world that offers these sticks?
It doesn’t have to be in America. There’s this service that I can use to ask people going out of the country to buy stuff during their vacation.
This basically means that I can buy stuff from virtually the entire world.
paradise arcade had some last time i checked, but only in loud colours
arcadeworlduk has them in full range of colours
They have a physical retail store?
https://paradisearcadeshop.com/502-levers-il-industrias-lorenzo
https://www.focusattack.com/joysticks/popular-brands/industrias-lorenzo/
Other than perhaps Akishop in Japan, most arcade parts retailers mentioned in these forums do not have physical store fronts. The best way to determine this was the masterful method I had used:
Joking aside…Google Maps shows unmarked warehouses for most.
The parts that these retailers sell are pretty much all low-margin. Maintaining a store front as well as paying a person to watch everything and run transactions isn’t as lucrative as click-and-ship e-commerce.
The closest thing you’ll see to what you’re looking for are these companies’ retail booths at tournaments.
Where are you located? Surely there’s some place that sells this stuff near you for which the shipping cost and customs inspection won’t suck.
There’s a place in my neck of the woods (Montreal, Canada) called Starburst Amusement (was once called Playdium) that sells basic arcade parts (american-style sticks and buttons, and Sanwa JLFs and OBSF-30s), but I’m not sure if the american-based sticks are IL Eurosticks or whatnot.
Mind you, from what I remember from the last time I stepped in there, they mainly specialize in other forms of game-room stuff like pool tables and jukeboxes.
I remember they had a branch in Ontario too, just outside of Toronto. I wonder if it’s still around…
Edit:
It is still around indeed, yet they only offer Happ:
http://www.theplaydiumstore.com/category_s/2181.htm