Octo & circle gates for Seimitsu LS-32 & Zippy arcade joysticks

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For a recent Robotron control panel, I used affordable Zippy joysticks and wanted to replace the rectangular gate with an octo gate for more precise movement and firing in twin-stick arcade games. I did eventually find some online, but I was impatient, so I made both octo and round gates in Illustrator that you can cut on a low-power/desktop laser cutter. The Zippy joystick is a clone of Seimitsu's LS-32 stick, so these gates should work on either stick. Simply remove both layers of the existing gates/restrictors and screw this one in its place. I went through a few iterations to get the size of the octagon right for my sticks (0.95"). The circular gate is slightly smaller at 0.9". Hopefully this works for your actuators as well. I have had good results cutting these out of 1/8" acrylic and 1/16" acrylic, but I have not done extensive testing yet, so...I'll keep playing. I would not recommend thicker than 1/8", however, as I suspect the actuator would not make contact correctly with 1/4" acrylic. Feel free to remix and improve this design as you see fit!