Jittery paddles.

[bfloatarijunkie]

I found a set of paddle controllers while cleaning my room. One works fine but the other paddle jitters like there's no tomorrow, How do I eliminate this problem?

[Osbo]

there you go, hope this will help

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.p...jittery+paddles

 

Osbo

[Atari 7800.com]

At Atari 7800.com we were engineering the "Pro-Line Paddle" controllers, which were paddle controllers with dual fire buttons constructed out of parts from the Pro-Line Joystick used with the 7800 ProSystem. When engineering these things, we came into many paddle controllers that seemed "jittery" and that problem even carried over into two of the first five prototypes we had created. We had to just get brand new parts to make this thing because all of our paddles had that jitter problem.

 

Best,

[Atari2600Lives]

[Atari2600Lives]

Unscrew the 2 screws with a screw driver. Spray WD-40 inside (turn knob back and forth make sure you get the moving parts) . Screw back 2 scews...Viola! working paddles...guanteed to work everytime.

[ubersaurus]

WD-40 messes those things up in the long run.

[Atari2600Lives]

WD-40 is designed to keep moisture out and protect against rust. if you give it a generous coat it should work fine. Like anything else if you super load it up it could cause it to gum up....but it will still work. I have used it on paddles for 15 years to fix them. I have used it on my fishing rods as well as my firearms for 20 years.

[tyranthraxus]

Just what defines a "jittery" paddle? I am assuming that you guys mean

that it moves slightly when you are not touching the paddle. On my

set of paddles I noticed that you often have to give them a good twist

or two for them to work properly on Video Olympics. I've thought of

doing the cleaning trick reccomended here but the problem is just

not bad enough for me to do it. However, I did have to open them up

to take out a plastic piece that was ratttling around inside.

 

Has anyone else experienced that broken piece in a paddle set?

 

John

[Atari2600Lives]

I define jittery paddles this way:

 

I load up Kaboom and if I move left or right and suddenly stop...it sorts of keeps going stops and comes back a few times (slides back and forth quickly over a short space).

 

There really is a simple fix explained above. I have never seen it not work.

 

Atari2600Lives

[ubersaurus]

Kaboom is jittery by its very nature. even on emulation. Go on, try it out ;p

[Atari2600Lives]

OK Kaboom might be a bad example

 

Buy you get the 'drift"