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| djruden:
I have a DK cab with all original parts and I'm pretty sure the joystick has never been removed or cleaned. I can get the control panel off but I'm not sure how to safely remove the joystick from it without breaking anything. How do I get that ball on top off? Is it possible that it's just been on there so long that it's just grown onto the shaft? It's been driving me crazy as I really wanna take it out and clean all the gunked up grease off. I've seen a lot of posts about how to properly clean these sticks but unfortunately can't get that darn thing off the control panel... Any one have some experience with this? Thanks DJ |
| EwJ:
--- Quote from: djruden on July 08, 2008, 12:11:53 am ---I have a DK cab with all original parts and I'm pretty sure the joystick has never been removed or cleaned. I can get the control panel off but I'm not sure how to safely remove the joystick from it without breaking anything. --- End quote --- Nothing to worry about. Nintendo joysticks can't be broken. |
| djruden:
So does that black ball just pull right off the top? Cuz seriously, I was using about all the muscle I got and it wasn't budging. I tried gripping the shaft with a plyers to help but that just started scratching it up and I want to avoid doing that. |
| EwJ:
nin1 nin2 nin3 nin4 Dunno, hopefully you can find something useful in those links - there's a schematic in there somewhere. Good Luck! |
| jimkirk:
--- Quote from: djruden on July 08, 2008, 12:24:19 am ---So does that black ball just pull right off the top? Cuz seriously, I was using about all the muscle I got and it wasn't budging. I tried gripping the shaft with a plyers to help but that just started scratching it up and I want to avoid doing that. --- End quote --- If your ball top has a set screw in it you need to loosen it then hold the bottom of the shaft with a wrench and turn ball top. If no set screw or squared end on shaft then you have to remove e clip and remove stick. Take care to see where all the parts go. If you need help putting back together mikes arcade has a DK manual download which shows the joystick.Buy the way if your ball top has no set screw or no squared end at bottom of shaft then you have an 8 way joystick with a short stick.Here is a picture of the two different sticks. |
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