NEVER TAKE APART A DUALSHOCK 2 I had the pleasure of buying for five dollars a used DualShock 2 controller for Playstation 2. Remember those controllers? They were beautifully designed! But the shoulder buttons tended to not work after awhile if you were not careful with them. Theyre also a pain in the butt to put back together. You have to be rather dexterous to pull it off, but the way i did it (without assists like glue or tape) was to put the large shoulder buttons in their final position while the controller was disassembled, then hope against hope that I can get the other half of the controller shell together without them falling out. After that, it was a matter of lining up the bottom of the controller so everything fits neatly together when I put the final squeeze on the top part of the controller, thus forcing the buttons to snap back into working order. Now heres why this is a problem; If you didnt do it quick enough so both sides are reasonably in position, the bottom shoulder buttons return to their problematic state, you wont feel the satisfying press of the button, and they wont function. Paradoxically if you put too much effort into making the bottom shoulder buttons work, sometimes the top shoulder buttons exhibit the same problem as the bottom shoulder buttons (presumably because the bottom shoulder buttons somehow pushed the contact pads out of alignment). So it takes just the right touch, at just the right time to get all the shoulder buttons to work on a Playstation DualShock 2. It sucks, but I did it. And hopefully this post helps someone else do it too.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 23:49:03 +0000
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