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Do-It-Yourself, Repairs and Fixes
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Share tips and tricks to keep people from throwing out that broken item. Repair before replace!
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Thanks for the information, I will take it into account.
I still have the box of the controller, but I doubt it got the information of what plastic is used to make its elements, alas.
While there is no stock left of the Xbox version, Amazon still have some units of the Switch one. But the way that button is made, I risk bending, if not outright breaking, its stem, while trying to take it from one controller to put it in the second. (And I’m not comfortable destroying a brand-new controller to repair another one, especially when it’s “old new stock”.)
Since that controller is based on the Saturn one, I can search and see if the 8BitDo use the same directional pad. (It looks the same from the outside, but that doesn’t guaranty anything for the rest.)
By the way, I looked inside to see how the plastic part of said button was made. Here is a link with 2 pictures (plus the one you already saw with my initial post): https://social.marud.fr/notes/a24xiiatpqy6q6lg
That looks like the recycling number 3. That means it is likely PVC. Here in the USA PVC is used for water piping in homes. I don't know if that is the case elsewhere. I presume you are in France or Europe, not that that matters. There is a PVC glue that is a chemical bond too.
PVC cement comes in cans like this typically, random chosen image has no significance: