Must be getting old! Parts prices. :yuck:

[Cowabunga]

Are all 3 buttons the same on those joysticks? If so swap them about so the 2 good buttons change gear and use the clutch pedal to change ranges. I know it's not ideal but it would do until you get the silage finished

I'll have to have a look at it again but it looks like the two ratio change buttons may be mounted on a little board of their own as one part. I'm fairly sure that this is as near identical as you will find to what is also fitted to my Same Titan. There is an Italian connection, so it could be. Which doesn't help at the moment of course.
It looks like the later type buttons are more individually replaceable, but apparently NH just don't 'do' buttons.

 

[Cowabunga]

Is this what you are after?

http://www.qtponline.com/data/thumbs/6f/6fd01b62493cad552188f8e61f7b4b1d5b8cefdc.jpg

Afraid not, although it could be made to fit perhaps, given time and patience, neither of which are in abundance here at the moment. In fact I'm bloody angry that NH don't have a sensible solution for this. What sort of Mickey-Mouse company tries to land their customers with a bill for £650 when the part should obviously be available for £20 or less?

I'll give my dealer a chance to offer a sensible solution tomorrow morning. As yet I've only talked to the storeman who could only offer the alternative of sending the joystick away to David King for repair. Maybe the workshop has a better and more immediate solution.

 

[Kevtherev]

Afraid not, although it could be made to fit perhaps, given time and patience, neither of which are in abundance here at the moment. In fact I'm bloody angry that NH don't have a sensible solution for this. What sort of Mickey-Mouse company tries to land their customers with a bill for £650 when the part should obviously be available for £20 or less?

I'll give my dealer a chance to offer a sensible solution tomorrow morning. As yet I've only talked to the storeman who could only offer the alternative of sending the joystick away to David King for repair. Maybe the workshop has a better and more immediate solution.

Try www.mjrobinsontractors.co.uk
Teme valley tractors at Knighton have a couple of 8360s down the yard or they did have?

 

[Cowabunga]

And you've been standing up for the stealers since time immemorial .

Nope. I tell it as it is and always have done. As I implied, the dealer deserves a sensible premium for the part if he carries it in stock. In this case it is NH that doesn't even bother to supply their dealer with an available part, preferring to let them deal with customer's ire when they are quoted £650 for something that should have a genuine part solution for certainly less than £20

I'm not that divorced from the value of money that I don't know a rip-off when I see one.

 

[bobk]

Try www.mjrobinsontractors.co.uk
Teme valley tractors at Knighton have a couple of 8360s down the yard or they did have?

Quite rare a breaking 8360 , most have already been done .

 

[Boohoo]

I'll have to have a look at it again but it looks like the two ratio change buttons may be mounted on a little board of their own as one part. I'm fairly sure that this is as near identical as you will find to what is also fitted to my Same Titan. There is an Italian connection, so it could be. Which doesn't help at the moment of course.
It looks like the later type buttons are more individually replaceable, but apparently NH just don't 'do' buttons.

They don't do buttons for anything. Was talking to someone today who had to fit a new joystick to a 6080 it was £500. I've never had an old type joystick apart but if I remember correctly they supply replacement joysticks with the new type buttons as the flush buttons were prone to sticking down at times. Makes me think a newer joystick should fit and function ok if you can get hold of a second hand one

 

[bobk]

Nope. I tell it as it is and always have done. As I implied, the dealer deserves a sensible premium for the part if he carries it in stock. In this case it is NH that doesn't even bother to supply their dealer with an available part, preferring to let them deal with customer's ire when they are quoted £650 for something that should have a genuine part solution for certainly less than £20

I'm not that divorced from the value of money that I don't know a rip-off when I see one.

All n/h dealerships are rip offs sadly , needed a pto clutch valve last month , n/h 850, QTP 515 only thing was it's a genuine new holland part ......... work that out .

 

[Cowabunga]

They don't do buttons for anything. Was talking to someone today who had to fit a new joystick to a 6080 it was £500. I've never had an old type joystick apart but if I remember correctly they supply replacement joysticks with the new type buttons as the flush buttons were prone to sticking down at times. Makes me think a newer joystick should fit and function ok if you can get hold of a second hand one

I cured the 'sticking down' years ago with a small cable tie wrapped around the housing for the two buttons to stop it moving deeper into the joystick. I know that they hadn't supplied the type of buttons I've got for well over ten years now. I don't mind that.
Its enough to drive one away from NH to a JD.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Wasn't there an ad for those buttons somewhere, Classic Tractor maybe. Have you tried QTP?

I find QTP can be pricey on some stuff

 

[brynseiri]

Would Maplin have something suitable?

 

[Hilly]

Its nice to see someone getting a taste of there own medicine.

 

[joe soapy]

I cured the 'sticking down' years ago with a small cable tie wrapped around the housing for the two buttons to stop it moving deeper into the joystick. I know that they hadn't supplied the type of buttons I've got for well over ten years now. I don't mind that.
Its enough to drive one away from NH to a JD.

I got a few spare RS micro, pm me your address and i will pop them in post

 

[NH-James]

Rapid Electronics are another good one for mail order electrical components, very good service. I would refuse to spend more than £5 fixing this, it's only a micro switch. Maplin are a bit more expensive but you're more likely to have a local one.

 

[Cowabunga]

Its nice to see someone getting a taste of there own medicine.

Are you saying that my milk is overpriced at 20ppl? Hell's bells, I'll have to sell 4500 litres after variable costs, or more, to buy a simple press switch and some other rubbish that I don't want.

 

[Graham Smith]

Could it be an APEM switch.
http://www.apem.co.uk/10-27832-Home.php

 

[Cowabunga]

I got a few spare RS micro, pm me your address and i will pop them in post

Thanks. I'll see if the dealer has an immediate solution for tomorrow first, as the weekend is coming and its needed on the buckrake on Sunday and I've a load of fertiliser coming tomorrow [although the skiddy could handle that].

 

[Cowabunga]

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that what I need is called a 'momentary' button switch?

Time is the main constraint. It just had to fail when silage is imminent.

 

[Boohoo]

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that what I need is called a 'momentary' button switch?

Time is the main constraint. It just had to fail when silage is imminent.

As far as I know a 'momentary' button switch is just one that doesn't latch, so the circuit is only opened or closed while the button is pressed. I think you need a 'push to make' rather than a 'push to break'. A multimeter across the old switch will soon tell you which it is.

 

[newhollandcruzr]

I think you'll find that it is just the solder at the base of the buttons as has happened to both our 83's it is a bit fiddley probably better to take to someone who mends tv's ect

 

[ridger]

Our dealer fits buttons on that joystick thing, buttons for a ts they are invoiced for