My Ideas/Rants

http://www.arcadespareparts.com/arcade_parts/joysticks.html

 

I was looking around this site when I had thoughts of modding an agetec arcade stick for the dreamcast.

I know in the Toronto area there are a bunch of people who buy, sell, repair & collect arcade games, pinball machines, and related items and they hang out on a couple of forums. If you can find your local equivalent, you might be able to pick up a machine or the boards for a lot less than you think. Sometimes your local operator (the guy who owns the machine in the movie theater / bar etc) can put you in touch with the collectors who buy his older stuff.

 

Although I haven't been active in many years, the forum on arcadecontrols.com was where the MAME cabinet builders hung out.