Interest Check: Atari Food Fight/Red Baron/Tunnel Hunt Gimbals (Aluminum)

That sounds a lot better than $40-$50!! :) I'm willing to try running off a few, but this isn't something people would want to cough up big $$ for.

I've been looking at the entire stick and it would probably cost about $275-$300ish to put out an all repro version. One with metal baseplate, metal gimbals, metal linkages for starters. I'd probably go with molded control plate, housing and bellow retainer. Then there's the bellow. I'd have to sell 50-75 just to recoup my cost. My final price estimate is also taking into account folding the cost of the molds back into the price.

Not yet, but probably around $10 - $15 shipped once I have the final design done (which should be this weekend since I'll actually have some free time) I'll know.
 
That sounds a lot better than $40-$50!! :) I'm willing to try running off a few, but this isn't something people would want to cough up big $$ for.

I've been looking at the entire stick and it would probably cost about $275-$300ish to put out an all repro version. One with metal baseplate, metal gimbals, metal linkages for starters. I'd probably go with molded control plate, housing and bellow retainer. Then there's the bellow. I'd have to sell 50-75 just to recoup my cost. My final price estimate is also taking into account folding the cost of the molds back into the price.

Yes, but yours would last A LOT longer :)

The one advantage to the plastic ones is they are cheaper so you could buy multiples, but it's a pain to replace them. I'm thinking my repro's will be fine for home use. I'll probably take my Red Baron to Zap Con and that should be a good stress test with the general public. I've played about 40 games on my old design, and it has been working fine so I'm pretty close.
 
I think you should stick with it and put them out there. A metal version might last longer, but yours seems perfectly fine. I'd even go in on buying a couple at that price! LOL I'll try to slip in some prototyping time on the machines as soon as I can.

Yes, but yours would last A LOT longer :)

The one advantage to the plastic ones is they are cheaper so you could buy multiples, but it's a pain to replace them. I'm thinking my repro's will be fine for home use. I'll probably take my Red Baron to Zap Con and that should be a good stress test with the general public. I've played about 40 games on my old design, and it has been working fine so I'm pretty close.
 
Well I guess this was too good to be true. I missed all the previous Ram Control issue so not 100% sure what's happened. I'll read up...

Arcadenut I'd be happy to give your plastic repro parts a shot when/if the time comes.
 
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