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rehabing Nintendo joysticks - grease or oil?

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Level42:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on August 03, 2007, 07:41:57 am ---
--- 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



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OK, so what do you replace them with, that is, if you're bothered to keep the same look ?

SavannahLion:

--- 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.

NoOne=NBA=:
Heavy grease can prevent some joysticks from recentering properly.
I know the Seimitsu's are prone to this.
I'm not sure about the Nintendo ones though because I use a light lithium grease to keep it from happening.

nate1749:

--- 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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Can you elaborate on what you said.  I thought they all needed grease, but if I just need 'patience,' I can wait until it feels right, but can you explain that. 

BTW - mine is of course a simple 4 way design, not an 8 way like the original poster.

Thanks Kermitt, I should have guessed that was the problem.

Nate

Ponderosa:
I have a few of those joysticks too.  I actually kind of like them.  I'm not currently using any of them in my cabinet, because I didn't have good luck using them with 4-way games.  Instead, I have happ supers with ball tops set to 4 way.

The question I have is, does anyone know where to get 4 way restrictors for the nintendo sticks?  All 4 of these sticks have 8 way restrictors attached, but you can see how a 4 way restrictor could be attached the the stick in lieu of the 8 way.  I've done some searching and have come up empty.

OR, has anyone figured out a good way to use them in 8 way mode with 4 way games (such as pacman) ???  For anyone who's interested, my panel is a modified nintendo vs. unisystem panel (two players, with additional buttons, and adapted for happ sticks).

Thanks,

John

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