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rehabing Nintendo joysticks - grease or oil?
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SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: shardian on August 06, 2007, 09:25:03 am ---WICO grommet sticks don't need grease. Any spring centered stick doesn't need grease. Yet, a Nintendo stick is always lathered in nasty grease.

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What? A Gorf grip stick has grease and the manual even gives you the grease points.

Kremmit, I don't think half the things you stated there could be considered a design flaw. Something wearing out and/or cracking is a natural order of things. An engineer can design hardware to extend the life of a particular design, but complete avoidance of wear and tear is unavoidable. Greasing something can extend the life of something for what seems like an indefinite time, but even that eventually wears out. The fact replacement grommets aren't being made isn't a design flaw either. No way anyone can ensure that manufacturing standards don't change or manufactures continue producing the same product indefinitely. The only thing that could be considered a design flaw is the rusting.


--- Quote from: SavannahLion on August 03, 2007, 06:42:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: shardian on August 03, 2007, 08:56:53 am ---There is an inherent design flaw when you have to grease a frikkin joystick.

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There's nothing wrong with the design. It's either because the operator doesn't have enough patience or someone removed some important bits from the joystick.

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It was supposed to be a subtle sex joke, but I guess I didn't word it right.  ::)
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