Repairing Atari 2600 Joysticks

[w3ace]

I built an online tutorial with lots of pictures and text about how to rebuild Original Atari 2600 Joysticks. Thought I'd share it with the community.

Reparing Atari 2600 Joysticks

[Adrian M]

Well done!

Articles like this only help to strengthen the community.

[jeepnut24]

Very Well done.

 

Do you plan to do one for the various paddles? They would be a very handy pair of tutorials.

[UK WOMBLE]

Do you plan to do one for the various paddles? They would be a very handy pair of tutorials

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Seconded !!

 

I've got tons of paddles that dont work at the moment, all my sticks are pretty much ok....

 

Si

[w3ace]

I'm trying to do one tutorial a week, but it's looking more like one a month now. My dad worked out a real easy way to fix paddles without opening up the potentiometers. I'll get the details.

 

-Craig

[Lauren Tyler]

Hopefully it will come soon, as both my sets of paddles are DOA!

[Voch]

My dad worked out a real easy way to fix paddles without opening up the potentiometers.

 

I had a heck of a time de-gunkifying my paddles. I took the pots completely apart and cleaned all of the goo out of 'em. It took a while but I have three perfectly working sets now . Does your dad's technique involve just using contact cleaner spray?

 

Voch

[ATARIPITBULL]

Thanks for the great information!!

 

[The MilkMan]

Very Well done.  

 

Do you plan to do one for the various paddles? They would be a very handy pair of tutorials.

 

I've got one if you want to check it out...

paddle cleaning

[maibock]

Nice tips! 'preciate it

[w3ace]

Thanks for the compliments.

 

Milkman that is a really clean, crisp design that you made. The content is nice too.

 

Any other request for Tutorials?

[jeepnut24]

We need a tutorial on cleaning and restoring the actual atari board. My latest 2600 jr was extremely dirty. Maybe one on cleaning the actual cartridge slot on the 2600 would be nice too.

[taxman]

Very appreciative of the tutorials. I feel a lot more confident in trying to do these repairs now. Been putting it off

[sku_u]

Thanks for the compliments.

 

Milkman that is a really clean, crisp design that you made.  The content is nice too.

 

Any other request for Tutorials?

 

That's a great tutorial you posted. Thanks for sharing the information!

 

As for other tutorial suggestions, I'd like to know more about repairing Atari Trakballs and removing marker from labels. I have a few 2600/7800/XE trakballs that are not as responsive as I'd like them to be.

[taxman]

Reading another post reminded me that we could use a good tutorial on repairing the heavy sixer spring loaded joysticks. If anyone has that information I would me very grateful. I have 2 of them that need to be fixed.