Asciiware Arcade Stick (SLEH-0002) for Playstation 1

Acquired PS1 arcade stick some time ago and decided to post the disassembly pictures in case somebody finds them helpful.
The unit itself. Quite nicely modeled after the original PS1. Quality plastic. Does not feel cheap.
Backside of the unit. Made out of 1 mm thick steel. Adds nice weight to the unit. Four rubber pads and under two of those are screws. Total of six screws hold the back plate. All the screws are the same size.
Main PCB is held in place with plastic piece which also acts as cable retention and reinforces the button area of the PCB. The structure is held in place with two screws.
Main PCB with the plastic support removed. It is still held down with two screws. After removing those you can lift up the PCB carefully. Do not snap any wires.
Top side of the PCB. Quite normal arrangement of contact points for rubber domes. The top part holds the contact points for the turbo sliders.
Rubber domes for the action buttons. They do feel kind of flimsy.
The turbo sliders. Be careful with these. Those small metal leafs are loose.
The start/select combo and slow mode toggle switch. Again the metal leaf is loose part.
One button and rubber dome assembly. The buttons are of different height and do not have any guiding holes, so some care must be taken when reassembling so that the buttons are in correct place.
Start/select assembly. The plastic is very thin, so be careful not to break it.
All the switches and their metal leafs. Those will be pain to reassemble.
The joystick assembly. It is held in place with four screws. You have to also unscrew the ball in order to remove the assembly completely. Use a flat head screwdriver to hold the metal shaft in place from bottom and just unscrew the ball.
The joystick assembly with ball removed. You can clip open the plastic housing if really needed. It contains four Omron micro switches that are held in place with plastic posts. Really simple design.
The unit contains fourteen screws in total. Six at bottom. Two for PCB plastic support. Two for PCB and four for joystick. All are the exact same size.
All the plastic parts ready to be washed. I cleaned also the PCB gently with some isopropyl alcohol.

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