Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: kraken613 on April 04, 2008, 02:44:05 PM
Title: Analog Sticks......
Post by: kraken613 on April 04, 2008, 02:44:05 PM
Hey I found a Wavebird for $10! Score! But one thing is the analog stick dosnt have the rubber covering on it. Is there anyway to replace the covering?
Title: Re: Analog Sticks......
Post by: vudu on April 04, 2008, 02:48:52 PM
The analog stick is made of hard plastic and the top has several raised, concentric circles. There is no rubber covering.
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Post by: EasyCure on April 04, 2008, 03:06:28 PM
Although if you look hard enough online i'm sure you can find rubber grips for them. I remember seeing them for ps2 and xbox a while back, not sure if gamecube was popular enough to have crappy extras like that made for it
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Post by: kraken613 on April 04, 2008, 03:21:39 PM
Well the covering with the circles is missing vudu....
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Post by: vudu on April 04, 2008, 03:24:23 PM
You either bought some generic rip-off of the Wavebird, or got it used, because someone must have used it to much it wore down the plastic.
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Post by: Ceric on April 04, 2008, 07:56:57 PM
Actually Vudu I've had mine Chewwed by my Chinchilla's, long story, there is in fact hard plastic under the soft nuby plastic that is the outer casing on the Wavebird. Unfortunately the only replacments I found is GelTabz but they are to think for the low profile of the Gamecube controller.
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Post by: Chozo Ghost on April 04, 2008, 09:35:25 PM
I don't know how, but my dad has some way of dipping his tool handles into liquid rubber so he can put rubber grips on his wrenches and hammers and so forth. That's a great thing too, because it gives a better grip than the bare metal.
I don't know how he does it, but if you can find that liquid rubber stuff you could probably dip the nub into it and give it a rubber coating. Baring that, you might also just cut a small piece off a latex glove and wrap it over the nub and secure it in place with either a twist-tie or a rubber band. It would certainly look like crap, but it might get the job down at least.
Those are just a few suggestions. I don't know if either of them will work or not, but you could give them a shot.
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Post by: Kairon on April 04, 2008, 11:29:27 PM
NO. The rubber covering is actually rubber covering. If you abuse your GameCube controllers enough, it can actually be peeled off. My brother brought out cube and controllers to school every friday for like... a couple semesters.... and we went through so many GC controllers that way...
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Post by: kraken613 on April 04, 2008, 11:38:41 PM
Well its not like I can go out and bye another Wavebird...... Without spending alot on ebay......
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Post by: IceCold on April 05, 2008, 01:22:00 AM
It is rubber covering vudu - I know this first hand.
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Post by: Chozo Ghost on April 05, 2008, 02:35:16 AM
Fix it yourself, as I suggested...
Title: Re: Analog Sticks......
Post by: kraken613 on April 05, 2008, 09:31:43 AM
Im going to go pick up some of those Geltabz later they ae only like $5 so even if they dont work I can use them on my 360 or PS3 if I want.
Title: Re: Analog Sticks......
Post by: Ceric on April 05, 2008, 11:38:19 AM
Im going to go pick up some of those Geltabz later they ae only like $5 so even if they dont work I can use them on my 360 or PS3 if I want.
Thats what I did. I also have them on my nunchucks. When I first put it on my PS3 controller after I found that I couldn't get them to work with my Wavebird. There a little weird to start with but I like them after using them a little bit.
Title: Re: Analog Sticks......
Post by: kraken613 on April 05, 2008, 02:51:54 PM
So they dont even stay on the Wavebird? Or you just didnt like them on it?
