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General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: gyruss on August 02, 2010, 04:41:36 PM

Title: Cleaning joysticks
Post by: gyruss on August 02, 2010, 04:41:36 PM

Just cleaned one of my red tent joysticks. Now I need to know which type of grease/oil I need to keep them working smooth.
I used something similar to this : http://hollandbikeshop.com/olie_cid343.html will this do or do i need something thicker?

Title: Re: Cleaning joysticks
Post by: joeks on August 02, 2010, 07:29:24 PM

For my Donkey Kong joystick, I used WD40 to degrease and clean it. And after cleaning, the thicker yellow/brown vaseline-like grease to grease it.

Title: Re: Cleaning joysticks
Post by: level42 on August 02, 2010, 08:28:36 PM

IIRC the manual specifies a certain type of greasing....

Title: Re: Cleaning joysticks
Post by: WunderCade on August 09, 2010, 01:25:52 AM

I use white lithium grease, it won't gum-up over time.

Title: Re: Cleaning joysticks
Post by: gyruss on August 09, 2010, 10:49:13 AM

Thanks for the info guys  :D