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rehabing Nintendo joysticks - grease or oil?

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nate1749:

I just bought a donkey kong machine and it has a 4way joystick that is very mushy.  It works fine, but it takes about  a second to come back to the center (makes playing this game a pain).  I took off the control panel and my guess was too much grease from the previous owner (or had never been cleaned?), but I was wondering if this is a common problem for older joysticks and if I should just replace it or attempt cleaning/repairing it (I'm going to do that anyways I guess).

Any suggestions for the right way to clean and repair this? 

Nate

Kremmit:

Nate, it's not that there's too much grease, it's that there's too much old spilled soda and food and crap that's gotten mixed in with the grease.

Take the thing apart (be careful to watch where everything goes!) and clean all the metal parts, then add some new grease to the pivot ball area.  That should fix you up, unless you've got a busted or missing spring someplace.

CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: missi0ncontrol on November 13, 2006, 02:38:58 am ---I used bearing grease for mine, but then again mine are still sitting in a shoe box waiting for me to get productive on my cabinet

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And for a certain chef to go to the post office and mail that restrictor plate ...  ::)

My personal choice for rehabbing Nintendo sticks is shown below ...  >:D



Havok:

But is it broke?

 ;D

shardian:

I had one that was full of what I believe was lithium grease. That stick was NASTY! There is an inherent design flaw when you have to grease a frikkin joystick.

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