Cleaning Colecovision Controllers

[onklsven75]

Hi. I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions on cleaning the standard colecovision controllers. My joystick doesn't respond very well, and I've tryed cleaning the contacts with tv tuner cleaner, but that didn't work.

 

Any suggestions?????

Thanks!

[Paul Slocum]

I can't remember the exact details, but I filed or sanded the contact points a bit then cleaned them with tuner cleaner. Made my unresponsive controllers work a lot better.

 

-Paul

[Curt Vendel]

What you'll want to do is open up the controller, remove the keypad from the connector on the board, take a pencil eraser and go over the leads and clean them. Same goes for the wire connectors to the boards, remove them one at a time and clean the contacts with the eraser. What I really recommend is doing what Coleco should've done all along which is solder the wires to the controller board so you have a nice clean connection.

 

For the joystick contacts you can take a piece of very fine sandpaper and cut a thing strip of it, slide it inbetween the contacts and gently go back a forth a few times, then flip it over and repeat. Just 2-3 times back and forth so its enough to remove any "gunk" but not really dig into the metal as that will expose the raw metal to the air and moisture and the contacts will actually oxized and become dirty quicker the next time.

 

 

Curt

 

[ 05-01-2002: Message edited by: Curt Vendel ]

 

[ 05-01-2002: Message edited by: Curt Vendel ]