Posted by OSCAR on February 24, 2002 at 13:53:23:
In Reply to: Joystick review now online! posted by OSCAR on February 23, 2002 at 22:25:23:
Here's some replies to the suggestions/questions:
Incidentally do you know whether a stronger spring is available for the Super joystick?
Niether the Happ Controls website or catalog list an alternate spring for the Super. However, I don't why you couldn't order the heavy spring for the Competition and just put that in the Super. The Competition spring has about a 1/16" longer free length which means using it in the Super will precompress it more. I just tried it with mine, and the additional precompression is not enough to bring the adjacent coils into contact with each other. I haven't tried this with the heavy Comp spring, though, but I speculate that it would be okay.
It would be useful if you could provide some information about how easy it is to mount the three joysticks in different thickness panels e.g. metal or plywood.
As far as the three joysticks I reviewed are concernced, they all mount to a control panel in exactly the same way: a hole for the joystick shaft, and then just screw down the base to the control panel. There really isn't enough difference between them mounting-wise to comment about. If I'm missing something here, or don't understand your comment, please let me know.
And lastly, JM... sure, just send me a flight yoke and I'll be happy to write a review for it. I promise to send it back! :o)
(notice the "L" in my fight yoke...) ;)
--OSCAR
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