Source for CX-40 Joystick Inserts

[trent]

My nieces and nephews love playing the Atari but they keep breaking the white plastic inserts. What is the best source for replacement inserts? Atari2600.com has them for $17 a pair, but I can find used complete joysticks for less than that.

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http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/joystick.htm ?

[jferio]

You might check eBay for sellers with the refurbishment kits. Otherwise, my recommendation would be to find 3rd party joysticks like the Wico Command and Control.

 

I gave up long ago on the CX-40 joysticks. They're delicate and fragile, and thus I've had a hard time finding used joysticks at thrifts and stores that didn't have some sort of breakage already.

[+GroovyBee]

You could look into getting the Euro D-pads or get Ax to do you some NES converted pads (if he is still doing them).

[Atarian7]

Click on the link subfunction put in his post and you will find that bestelectronics has them for

$3.95 each.

[SlowCoder]

I wouldn't say the CX40 is fragile, but it's not heavy duty either. If your kids KEEP breaking them, then I doubt any other joystick will last much longer, and I think it's time you teach them how to properly use them. Some people just get too rough when playing, torquing the sticks too far.

[trent]

Thanks for the link. I had seen that but I'm a bit put off by Best's order process. Guess I will give them a try.

 

Only one has been broken so far but it only took a couple of hours. That combined with my childhood memories of constantly broken inserts is why I want to have some extras on hand :-)

[fiddlepaddle]

I'd suggest that you may need a heavier duty joystick. If I kept breaking them, I'd probably build a heavy duty joystick, or adapt a genuine arcade joystick.

[zylon]

try Genesis or SMS sticks.

[cobracon]

try Genesis or SMS sticks.

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