Good day gentlemen. I have a problem and I thought I’d ask for help from the pros.
What I’m going for is a higher pressure spring for my Sanwa JLF, so it would reset to neutral faster than stock. Living in Finland, I have very, very limited access to parts, and from what I understood, the TE stick isn’t exactly easily moddable with Korean parts even if I got my hands on them.
So, is there some other tighter springs that are compatible with the JLF or any easy trick to doing this? What I did was I stretched the spring out some and immediately got results.
The stick isn’t as wobbly anymore, resets way faster and my Wavedash speed on Tekken doubled, and my movement got better overall. The only problem is, how long will it stay like that? I imagine stretching it out will only give me a couple days before I have to do it again, eventually breaking the spring and other stuff.
Please help the scrub in need, and feel free to point me the right way if I missed a post with this topic.
You can do what TheRealNeoGeo did. He added LS-33 spring, plus some tape to make it tighter, and post it notes in microswitches, and such. I know LS-33 spring might be hard to find. You could try Korean springs. They might help.
It is possible to coil two springs together and uses it like that. They do grinds against each other but the smoothness of the bounce back is rarely an issue. That would be a last ditch effort if you can’t find anything else.
The JLF+LS-33 spring works well. As mentioned actually coiling the springs together can be hit or miss and as far as making the actuator larger people have used heat shrink tubing far more successfully than electrical tape which tends to unwind eventually.
I tried using two JLF springs but the stick didn’t tilt far enough to register all the commands sometimes. I suppose this is because there’s not enough space between the actuator and that other part (dunno what it’s called) for both of the springs even they’re even a tad off.
Will this be an issue with the LS-33 spring? I can get my hands on an LS-33 stick and take off the spring, but I want to be sure it’ll do what I need it to do because buying the stick to get the spring and something not working out would suck. I don’t need the microswitches to activate earlier or anything, just a permanent quicker bounce back.
basically:
If I leave out all the taping and post it tricks, will the added LS-33 Spring give me a JLF with higher spring pressure and quicker bounce back?
that being said, i use the normal TE spring + ls-33 on all my personal sticks.
its not TOO tight, but at the same time not mushy like the normal TE feel.
I ordered a Seimitsu LS-33 spring from Lizard Lick and stuck it in my TE in addition to the stock spring - the results are really nice! I highly recommend it.