Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: shorthair on May 18, 2007, 05:38:05 pm
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If I had some competition-like sticks that either got immersed in water, or were in a really dank, dark place for a while and rusted, could I just clean em up with steel wool and stuff? Would the switches be bad?
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Clean up the joystick but for the cost of switches I would replace them all to ensure reliability down the road.
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Or for not much more than the cost of replacement switches you could buy an all-new stick. If it's that rusted up the spring's probably shot too. I'd say that it's a lost cause unless you have lots of extra parts laying around.
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I usually keep about 10 spares around all the time due to their low ccost. Joysticks however always cost me more than a whole box of switches due to the weight and shipping costs. I hear this is going to get even worse with new USPS rates to Canada.
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Completely disassemble them when you're cleaning them. Don't take shortcuts.
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Well, I don't actually have them, yet. Wanted to see if the several I found offered were worth picking up for fifteen or so dollars.
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Well from what it seems, that fifteen or so dollars could become alot more in replacement parts and labor....
I guess it would have to be a purely personal choice depending on how many sticks you're getting and the condition of each...