Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: moot on February 10, 2008, 02:39:35 PM
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Does anyone know how to cleanly take apart the assembly that holds the blue LED, hat switch and adjustment screws?
I want to see what the hat switch inners are like, and clean or improve them.
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How do you free the symetrical two-piece with buttons 5 and 6 and the hat switch from the one-piece where buttons 2,3,4 are?
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As far as I can tell there's no way to disassemble the 2-3-4 assembly, nor to remove the hat switch without prying and bending plastic. If you have a pair of hands or two to assist you, you could probably extract the hat switch assembly (hat, mast, circuit board base) cleanly enough that the whole top housing plastic is intact enough to be succesfuly put back together.
The hat switch components themselves don't seem to disassemble more than removing the hat - one-piece hat and mast with just a small screw tying it to the base circuit board, where it pushes against 4 orthogonal switches.
Those switches look glued to their housing with nowhere to put any effective leverage to pull them out, and see if they can be cleaned.
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And now that I've completely taken one apart, it's safe to say that any reasonable amount of thick lubricant can be applied to the underside of the plastic piece at the exposed spring's bottom. Unless you've given it more than it needs, it all gets pushed onto the edge of the outside rim.
If you do apply an excessive amount, it might accumulate near the top of the ball joint and eventualy make a mess down below.
There's no need to give any to the ball joint under that, it should have all it needs on the inside of the plastic shell of the joystick's base.