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LLUncoolJ:
I wore my originals out. The plastic ring that mashed the contacts would break in them. Now, I am remembering things from 25 years ago. I may have been a little overzelous in playing, but I wouldn't say it was outside of the boundries of normal play. These things had a LOT of miles on them. If memory serves, it seems like the OEMs were a little pricey. But you're right, they were the best ones I owned.

Wow...a moment of clarity. I sit around and ponder how my boy can f up a steel ball and realize I was the same way. Oh well, he is still going to pay for the DS repair.

ChadTower:

Hrm... well I've probably rebuilt 50 of them and parted out 100 more that had been badly abused.  Those contact rings very rarely broke even when the stick had been beaten to crap.

LLUncoolJ:
Well, I was a fat little ---fudgesicle---, I may have been pushing and pulling too hard. But I was a bad mofo...hardly beatable in the 10 yo catagory. But I assure you that that was the part I broke repeatedly...at least on the OEMs.

Level42:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 28, 2009, 10:57:00 am ---
Hrm... well I've probably rebuilt 50 of them and parted out 100 more that had been badly abused.  Those contact rings very rarely broke even when the stick had been beaten to crap.

--- End quote ---
I don't know how you managed to see huge number of original Atari joysticks like that that didn't have that plastic ring broken.

The things were and are infamous for that very ring to break. It's exactly what happend to my P1 joystick after 6 months and a couple of weeks and a week or two later the P2 joystick suffered the same fate.

It's simply a very poor construction. The plastic ring is not up to the force required to push in the "bulb"-click metal contacts for a long period of use. True, this was at a time where I was _SO_ involved in the games that I moved the joystick through the air with the directions I pushed it, but I didn't ever throw them or beat them or abuse them in any other way......

By the way, you are all welcome to come over to throw my Suzo across the room 100 times, and I will guarantee you it's still working after that.

ChadTower:

It's not up the force required once the part has been deformed via excessive force.  You can tell, once you've seen a lot of them, which sticks were used reasonably and which were used like you're trying to winch up a kid from an abandoned well.

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