How Much Would You Pay For A Joystick Mod?

[stepp]

in other words...its shite?

 

[Drak]

I find all you have to do is twist the stick up a bit then it works fine, normally its sunken in a lil and movement is limited.

Im gonig to twist mine up, put some GOOP in it and it should be fine

 

[nickspoon]

How easy is it to fit a new stick?

 

[Drak]

How easy is it to fit a new stick?

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Lets just say u can pull off this one with ease ;0 it basically screws/snaps on.

 

[abigsmurf]

Got another quote which is more expensive but doesn't have such a huge mold making cost. Only trouble is, for this one it's looking at a retail price of around $10 a unit for a reasonable return when sold at retail...

I could do the mold based one which is looking at around $6-7 but I'd need shops/buyers to put up the money for it before I have the units manufactured X_x

 

[codesmith]

Got another quote which is more expensive but doesn't have such a huge mold making cost. Only trouble is, for this one it's looking at a retail price of around $10 a unit for a reasonable return when sold at retail...

I could do the mold based one which is looking at around $6-7 but I'd need shops/buyers to put up the money for it before I have the units manufactured X_x

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I would recommend making a few prototypes (from wood or cheap plastic) by hand and giving them out to a few nitpicky people (just look at the forums) to test before committing to the big expensive run. Nothing will kill your venture faster than a couple dozen posts saying "smurf's new joystick is shite!"

 

[DaveC]

Got another quote which is more expensive but doesn't have such a huge mold making cost. Only trouble is, for this one it's looking at a retail price of around $10 a unit for a reasonable return when sold at retail...

I could do the mold based one which is looking at around $6-7 but I'd need shops/buyers to put up the money for it before I have the units manufactured X_x

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So the non-mold one is machined with a CNC lathe?

 

[DaveC]

Got another quote which is more expensive but doesn't have such a huge mold making cost. Only trouble is, for this one it's looking at a retail price of around $10 a unit for a reasonable return when sold at retail...

I could do the mold based one which is looking at around $6-7 but I'd need shops/buyers to put up the money for it before I have the units manufactured X_x

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I would recommend making a few prototypes (from wood or cheap plastic) by hand and giving them out to a few nitpicky people (just look at the forums) to test before committing to the big expensive run. Nothing will kill your venture faster than a couple dozen posts saying "smurf's new joystick is shite!"

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Nitpicky people? We don't have any of those around here do we?

 

[abigsmurf]

So the non-mold one is machined with a CNC lathe?

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They said it'd be "soft tooled". Wether thats using pre-programmed equiptment or worringly cheap chinese labour I don't know...

 

[DaveC]

So the non-mold one is machined with a CNC lathe?

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They said it'd be "soft tooled". Wether thats using pre-programmed equiptment or worringly cheap chinese labour I don't know...

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Soft tooled? That sounds like they are going to make it out of chewing gum or something :blink:

Maybe that means software based tooling? or CNC?