Joystick Button

[[Ru...]]

Anyone know where i can buy the button. Pic attached

[[Ru...]]

Ok it wont let me attach a picture. It is for the BP 26 joystick It is the button on the joystick itself. I have a broken one.

[[SH...]]

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In my knowledge Zeiss spare parts are not available in the market ,you have to contact Zeiss service engineer.

[[Ch...]]

If you are good with DC electronics then you should be able to get a stock button/switch to work. I doubt it would be hard.

[[Ke...]]

Not sure what Zeiss would charge for a component/repair, but there is a BP 26 "parts" controller on Ebay for $400

[[Ru...]]

I contacted Zeiss to see if i can buy some buttons.

[[Ow...]]

Where are you located?

[[Ch...]]

So I have two extra joystick boxes that are the old style without the screen. Zeiss will tell you that they won't work. I had a Zeiss technician hook them up to test them and they worked just fine.

So you could maybe find an old one.

[[Ru...]]

I am from Asheboro North Carolina.

Zeiss Customer Service says they sell the joysticks but not the buttons.

It also looks like you have to buy from them it has a special ribbon attached to the bottom of the joystick itself.

[[Ow...]]

Russel,
If you can't get one, let me know.
I've got a bad box sitting on the shelf (it's got a bad circuit board or something) and I wouldn't mind giving you a control stick off of it, IF you couldn't get one.

[[Am...]]

I needed to replace the button and all Zeiss was able to provide is the whole joystick. I believe it was about $350, on the plus side it is super easy to replace the joystick. The little square clip comes off and then just swap the 8 pin connector to the new joystick.

[[Ru...]]

They quoted me a price of $255 then i get our 10% off but still to expensive for when we pay 8k a year for SMA and Calibration.

[[Am...]]

Yeah that sounds about right I could't remember if it was 250 or 350. I was able to make the joystick work fine without the button by cutting out a foam pad that went around the center piece fit very snug into the joystick. The issue is with that center piece, if that rubber piece comes out its super loose and any sort of movement gets registered as a button press. So by preventing that from wobbling around you could use it without a problem and could still press it down. I did get new joystick because management likes to show off the Zeiss machines to visitors/investors but it was functional and I kept the old one if we ever need it.

[[Am...]]

Here is a pic of the old one with the foam insert I was talking about.

[[No...]]

Is it really the button (the black plastic cap) that is broken or the electrical button inside? If it's the cap I would think about measuring its dimensions and try to reproduce one on a 3D printer. If it's the electrical button, I'd bet this is a quite basic standard part you can buy for a ridiculously low price somewhere on the electronics market. Sometimes vendors like Zeiss use special versions of standard parts made sepcifically for their needs, but chances are good that this is not the case here. But you'll still need somebody who'll install (solder?) the button in the joystick.
By the way: The old boxes (used in the 90s) had joysticks made by Graupner, a once renowned German maker of all sorts of RC model stuff and radio remote controls. Maybe they still use standard RC joysticks?