Controller metal disks

[dj_sudo]

I know there's been some talk of replacement metal stickers for the controller, I ordered some 1" aluminum disks from a metal remnants place and this is the result. A tiny bit small but I think it's acceptable. It also is much thicker than the original disk, which means it sits higher and doesn't give me blisters when I'm using it.

 

And yes, I know this controller is gross. Just found it in an ancient box, still has to be completely refurbed!

[+Yurkie]

real discs have the spiral rings from being turned on a lathe.

[Osgeld]

if I were faced with missing or totally fubar disks this looks acceptable, and it sounds like its easily sourced

 

and no the rings were stamped, they didnt sit there with a lathe and spin out thousands of perfectly flat aluminum disks at what 6 sheets of paper thin, lol

 

its laminated sheet stock (glue metal plastic) and die stamped / cut, with the individual component shipped in from china and or Taiwan from a 3rd party

Edited May 3, 2017 by Osgeld

[+grips03]

looks good

[ianoid]

Pretty nice for turnkey. I'm also interested in Intellivision disks and Arcadia disks (which have a hole in the center).

[dj_sudo]

These are 1" grained 304 aluminum disks from metalremnants.com (I have no connection to that site, it's just where I bought them). I got 18GA but if I had to order again I might get 22GA instead. If you wanted the spin effect you could use sandpaper but honestly it doesn't bother me. $0.55 each, pretty decent.

Edited May 4, 2017 by dj_sudo