Taking joystick apart...

[lloydclinton]

So I have 3 different types of buttons in the machine for now, but at least my switches showed up from Groovy which allowed me to get all the switches unified this morning.... the picture below is old, but the question is, how do I get that joystick apart so I can get it out of the CP??  I don't want to break anything and I figure someone here will probably know... also, I think the cabinet was originally Asteroids.. Thanks for the help!!

[lilshawn]

so if your just going to replace the switches, why not just unscrew them and change them?

but if your hell bent on taking it out...

remove the C shaped clip in the middle and pull out the spacer under it and pull out the shaft from the top side.

remove the 4 nuts securing the base to the panel on the bottom side.

installation is removal in reverse. (actually lavomer is removal in reverse)

[lloydclinton]

I didn't buy new leaf switches, but I did order new joysticks from Groovy.  Thanks for the help!

[mgb]

Yeah,
just follow the steps that lilshawn posted.
Your gonna have to snip the wires and resolder them on the new stick.
goodluck

[lilshawn]

Yeah,
just follow the steps that lilshawn posted.
Your gonna have to snip the wires and resolder them on the new stick.
goodluck

oh and be sure to mark the wires... a little flag of masking tape folded over them with a note written on it will make things a billion times easier come time to wire up a new one.

[lloydclinton]

Yeah,
just follow the steps that lilshawn posted.
Your gonna have to snip the wires and resolder them on the new stick.
goodluck

No solder here... when I built my first machine from scratch years ago, I built a harness with spade connectors for my ipac.  Gonna be using that.  I can appreciate the time they took to solder it, but I'm not that good with a solder gun...

[bkenobi]

I just noticed that at least some of your buttons are vertical switches rather than the current standard horizontal switches.  I've never played with (to my knowledge) a vertical switch, but when I was building my first cab a few years back, those buttons were rated rather poorly.  You might consider upgrading to better buttons as well.  If you're going through the effort to improve the stick, it's not much more effort to replace the buttons at the same time.