Vectors are shorting out!!!!!!!!!!!!! help!!!!

[jgannon]

I know you say you cleaned everything out, but this still sounds distinctly like metal shavings. You should get some canned air (like the kind you use to clean computers), and spray inside them. You might even consider carefully removing the fans and examining the inside. The reason that you're experiencing the sparks only when you press the joysticks is because that when there is actually power running through the electronics you can see under the fan. There is definitely something physically wrong with your Victors, and I'll eat my hat if it isn't because there are still some particularly clingy metal bits in there. (One possibility is that the first time you made sparks, a metal bit may have fused itself between two electrical parts.)