Pinky Finger Mod for SCG
Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 21:30
I made a quick and easy addition to button D1 on the SCG which is the pinky finger button. Hopefully this will be helpful to some.
The pinky finger button is in such a covenant place I love it and use it for a game control I use often, however it can be fatiguing on the hand as it takes a stout push from the pinky finger which is not that strong and for me my finger tip wraps well past the button so I am pushing with the side of the finger. I wanted to share a little mod I made that has help me a great deal, I have been using it for about 3 weeks now and feel confident to say it works well for me as I have used it several hundred times by now. I glued a 3/16" 4.76mm thick piece of felt to the button, this did two things, it extended the button outward so I have a little more leverage on it, and it made the surface slightly soft and yet coarse which help with the finger grip on the button.
The felt started life as a floor protector intended for the leg of a chair and was purchased at a big box store. I used a Dremel tool and sand paper to grind it to the right dimension. So far the stick on glue that came with it is holding up. If it fails I plan to use some 5 minute epoxy on it.
The pinky finger button is in such a covenant place I love it and use it for a game control I use often, however it can be fatiguing on the hand as it takes a stout push from the pinky finger which is not that strong and for me my finger tip wraps well past the button so I am pushing with the side of the finger. I wanted to share a little mod I made that has help me a great deal, I have been using it for about 3 weeks now and feel confident to say it works well for me as I have used it several hundred times by now. I glued a 3/16" 4.76mm thick piece of felt to the button, this did two things, it extended the button outward so I have a little more leverage on it, and it made the surface slightly soft and yet coarse which help with the finger grip on the button.
The felt started life as a floor protector intended for the leg of a chair and was purchased at a big box store. I used a Dremel tool and sand paper to grind it to the right dimension. So far the stick on glue that came with it is holding up. If it fails I plan to use some 5 minute epoxy on it.