Re: Q: How to take joystick apart?

[louiss@gate.net (Louis Schulman)]

In <Pine.SV4.3.92.961021165802.20603A-100000@bookworm>, Mark Wade <mwade@suffolk.lib.ny.us> writes:
>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.
>
>Laz,
>
>If you're looking at the bottom so that you can read the label, or,
>if there is no label, so that the cord is at the upper right corner,
>there are two screws under the rubber feet, at the upper left corner
>and the lower right.  I was able to get the buttons working on
>mine by taking them apart and cleaning them.  Didn't need to replace
>them.
>
>Mark Wade

Same result here.  I used xylene.  Also, it may be beneficial to increase the 
clicking force transmitted from the buttons to the switches by stretching the 
springs slightly.

Louis