Has anyone ever had any luck with removing the ball tops from Wico sticks?

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Has anyone ever had any luck with removing the ball tops from Wico sticks?

I'm making a trip to the chromer soon and I was considering having the shafts on my Robotron sticks rechromed but I'm not so sure that I can remove the balls without thrashing them in the process. Anyone ever succesfully removed them before?
 
Oh. You want to reuse them....

The best way I've found is to drop them on a concrete surface. They almost always seem to break into two or more pieces when I do that. :eek:

I know the way they put them on is to heat them in a sand bath and then force fit them on while they are hot and they shrink to fit. I don't know if heating them would expand them enough to let them slide off the same way or just melt them.

ken

Edit: Maybe Dave over at RAM Controls (Daviea here on klov) might know. He is starting to repro joysticks.
 
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