Wico leaf-style joystick question

Posted by Chad Hendrickson on 27, 2000 at 4:13 PM:

I have installed two of the Wico leaf-style joysticks into my Mame cabinet. You can find the item here:

http://www.wicothesource.com/392.html - It is part number 15-968801.

I have always thought that leaf-style joysticks are superior to microswitch... mainly because most all of the classic games (pre 1985) used leaf-style instead of microswitch. Therefore, leaf-style is more authentic for the true classic gamer (plus the red ball on top is cool!)

I love the joysticks but I have one question. Is there anyway to make them looser? They are a bit stiff. I figured that time may have loosened them but it has been about 9 months and they are still pretty stiff.

Any tips would be appreciated.

Regards,
Chad

• Wico leaf joystick

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