I decided to take on a new project when freeplayinc listed a bunch of Nintendo joysticks for sale. I cleaned up one of my joysticks I had in my parts drawer and it turned out pretty nice. I had a couple people ask me to post the steps I took to clean and rebuild these joysticks. Saturday the joysticks from freeplayinc came in the mail so I figured I would document of few of the rebuilds from that lot on here for others to see. Here are two pictures of what came in the mail...
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There were a couple of decent joys in there, but for the most part they were pretty trashed. I expected this (that is why I got a good deal on the lot). Most of the joysticks are 8 ways for VS, PlayChoice, Punch-Out!, etc., but there are a few DK joysticks in there. I pan to rebuild these and then sell them off giving people the choice of what joystick they want (i.e. 2-way, 4-way, 8-way, and 25mm, 28mm, and 30mm balltop with appropriate shaft). Some of the joys barely move and they don't return to center when let go of. Some are missing parts. All in all, this lot should keep me busy for a little while.
The first joystick that am I rebuilding is a 4-way joystick with the 25mm balltop that is used on Nintendo cocktail games like DK, DKJR, and POPEYE. Here are detailed before shots of the joystick...
Top...
and Bottom...
There were a couple of decent joys in there, but for the most part they were pretty trashed. I expected this (that is why I got a good deal on the lot). Most of the joysticks are 8 ways for VS, PlayChoice, Punch-Out!, etc., but there are a few DK joysticks in there. I pan to rebuild these and then sell them off giving people the choice of what joystick they want (i.e. 2-way, 4-way, 8-way, and 25mm, 28mm, and 30mm balltop with appropriate shaft). Some of the joys barely move and they don't return to center when let go of. Some are missing parts. All in all, this lot should keep me busy for a little while.
The first joystick that am I rebuilding is a 4-way joystick with the 25mm balltop that is used on Nintendo cocktail games like DK, DKJR, and POPEYE. Here are detailed before shots of the joystick...

