Neogeo x - Thumb stick?

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Now folks,

I see a few people are having issues with thumb stick wear.

I would like to think these switches should last years. Can anyone offer a repair or replacement guide ?.

As these things should be repairable and can any one shed light on the switches used in the thumbstick.

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[omgngx]

I would suspect the flimsy soldered on ribbon cable before the actual microswitches. I got an NGX with the up direction not functioning and it was a bad/desoldered point on the ribbon that connects the joystick daughterboard to the motherboard.