Who is "they"? WowWee Store?
The cost of shipping and handling these would far exceed the cost making the item yourself.

Step 1 - make a mold of a pad (plaster, silicon caulk, sculpy, latex, etcetera)
Step 2 - fill release coated mold with freshly mixed epoxy (a few bucks at hardware store)
Step 3 - remove cast pad from mold and install

This will cost you pennies per pad. If you do it right, the mold is reusable.

Make a bunch, set a price, advertise your services, and make yourself a niche product supplier.

I made a plaster mold for a damaged plastic part last night. It took me 15 minutes while watching TV. I'll be casting my replicas this weekend. In my case, it's a custom nosecone for a rocket that came to Earth a bit too energetically.

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I'm a strong believer in people getting a few general directions, and then figuring out what works best for them.

Life is a learning process. The journey is the adventure.

Search the web for "mold making", and you'll find references such as

http://www.hirstarts.com/moldmake/moldmaking.html

You'll need-
- something to make a mold of (the foot pad)
- something to make a mold with (see above)
- something to make a casting of (for example, hardware store 2 part epoxy)
- a willingness to learn how it's done

A foot pad is a simple shape and the mold can be a simple press mold. You take the molding compound, and press the object into the compound. It leave an impression. After the mold hardens, you fill the impression with the casting material.

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I got a reply, and the said that they don`t carry the part. Crud!

J. T. said: I'm sorry rybuger1, but I do hope you find your part. If you don't then you make a new one. One time my directional pad on PS2 controller wasn't responding. I opened it up to find out that 4 small black cylinders that I saw in the controller I was comparing it to, weren't there. So what I did, I took 4 pencils with the complete erasers in them, yanked the erasers out, grind them down to the right size, and it's worked perfectly from then on.

Opinions are good. Everybody gets to have one. Some people seem to collect them.

The best part is that there are so many to choose from.

Our household hasn't tossed money at game consoles since the original PlayStation. My kids are into multi-player web games. My college age son and his four roommates probably had 10 game systems between them. There was no shortage of game play.

Speaking as an employee of the company that supplies many of the game processors, all I can say is BUY MORE!

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RebelTaz said:

J. T. said:  Second, in my opinion, a person only needs one game console. PS I did it 5 years ago!

What!? One game console? OMG... I have almost every console since the Atari 2600... Atari 2600, Atari 5700, NES, SNES, N64, GameCube (broken),  GameBoy, GameBoy Color, Playstation, PS2, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sega CD, XBox... Mind you, I rarely play with any of them - short attention span and all. But I couldn't image only choosing one!

Haha, you and I are two of a kind.  Let me see if I can remember every one I have...

Coleco, NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, GBA, GBA SP, DS, Neo-Geo CD, Saturn, DC, PS, PS2, XBOX, XBOX 360, Wii, Game Gear, GP2X, PSP, Neo Geo Pocket, Virtual Boy, GameCube, N64...

Many of these were picked up at garage sales, and some were bought used, others new.  I used to work in a game store, so I got a pretty mean discount, too, back in the day!  It's taken me a while to build up my collection, but if one does it right, you can pick up old games for cheap ;)

Check out this link, I had a lot of fun with it.

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I was just reading my list again (making comparisons, and a mental wish list) and I can't believe that I forgot to mention my favorite - Sega Dreamcast! Did you know that there are homebrew games available for the Dreamcast? No mod chip needed, either.

I guess I could afford the PS3 or the XBox 360 if I really wanted it, but to be honest, I don't like the newer 3D type games. For me, they get too confusing and I forget where I am!

And none of mine where ever purchased new. Being an electronics technician, I haven't had to buy any audio/video/computer equipment in 20 years. Things get left at my shop and I either repair them, or make one out of many.

You know what they say about one man's trash...


:)

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