Re: Q: How to take joystick apart?

[Cyrus Roton <croton@ridgecrest.ca.us>]

On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Lazarus I. Long wrote:

> I've got one of those Apple joysticks, you know, 2 orange buttons, 
> metal ball, spring loaded, calibrating wheels on bottom.
> 
> how do i take the thing apart?  the buttons don't work and i wanna
> try fix'n'm.

If it is the kind I suspect it is, the screws are hidden under the rubber 
feet. Pull the feet off (they can be glued back later. It may be possible 
to take the buttons apart for cleaning. But, on one unit I had, that did 
not work. So, I replaced the buttons with two I got from Radio Shack. 
Required a little cutting and filing, but it worked. The new buttons are 
a bit stiffer than the original, but no problem.

As I recall, the original button had four contact posts. Acually, only a 
single-pole switch, but each contact had two posts. When you take it 
apart, study the wireing carefully and draw a diagram. Good luck. 

Cyrus Roton   croton@ridgecrest.ca.us
Ridgecrest Apple User Group