Ever Trash a Joystick?

[rpm]

There's a reason they're called LogiCrap.

[lazs2]

used to kill thrustmaster stuff every 6 months or so.

Ch is a bargin when you take into consideration how well it works and how...

It frigging doesn't break...  you can break 10 hundred dollar sticks and the CH would still be working.   the CH is  the best bargin in a stick I have ever had.

Did I mention that there is no frustration?  How much is that worth?

lazs

[Atoon]

Back in AW days I used Msoft P-Pro, and its roll axis pot got dirty. I spent about 2.5 hours carefully taking it apart, laying all the pieces out in order for easy re-assembly. sprayed it with cleaner, let it dry & re-assembled- no probs.

2 days later it started spiking again, but even worse. I lost a very important fight and was quite unhappy. Unplugged the unit while cursing Mr. Gates and his profit margin Then I took it outside to my concrete porch & while holding only the cord, I slammed the unit into the concrete repeatedly until the unit measerued about 3". Spent 1o minutes sweeping up the debris, proceeded down to Best Buy & bought a Saitek which lasted about 9 months but was simply placed into the garbage.

[Birddogg]

Originally posted by Atoon
Then I took it outside to my concrete porch & while holding only the cord, I slammed the unit into the concrete repeatedly until the unit measerued about 3".  

Hahah.. Thats how i do it too. on the porch and let it rock..

Anyways, CH stuff lasts, and although i never took it to the porch, it did fly across the table and room couple times. Still works great, and i hope it  last me for many years to come. And even if something brakes, its easly fixable.

[Mathman]

I snapped an MS Sidewinder.  I forget how, probably something stupid.  I fixed it with superglue, but the fix would last for only about a month.  Finally bought another one and used it until I got a TM Cougar.  Been using it for about 3 years now.

[Dux]

Originally posted by Kurt
...if anyone knows a solution the CH Pro Pedals dragging brakes, PLEASE POST.

Kurt, I find that if you exert extra pressure on the bottom of the pedals while taxiing, either with your heels or your toes, it helps to keep the brake from dragging. It's almost like you're putting the pedals into a slightly negative position, if you get my drift.

[Mustaine]

Originally posted by Halo
Its ergonomics were the most comfortable ever.  Felt just right.

I've always felt that way too....

1/4 of me want to gut various joysticks for parts, use clay, plaster and resin and mold my own joystick handle just to see if I can do it. maybe some day after winning the lottery and I have all that free time.



but on topic, no I never have... only stick that went "bad" took back to BB with the 2 year thingy, and when they were out of stock talked them into upgrading to an x45. still have / use the throttle part of it with my CH.

[nirvana]

What Dux said about the pedals, mine do it too but it's only the right one.  When playing something like MSFS it says when/which brakes are engaged and it's always the right side, maybe a better spring or something to kep it down.

[OOZ662]

Originally posted by Mathman
I snapped an MS Sidewinder.  I forget how, probably something stupid.  I fixed it with superglue, but the fix would last for only about a month.  Finally bought another one and used it until I got a TM Cougar.  Been using it for about 3 years now.

kevor34 snapped the throttle off an X45.

[Shifty]

Back when AHI became AHII all the sudden I was out of the loop my computer couldn't handle AHII . So there was no way to get my fix except fly WBsII until I got a new computer. I felt like I had been banished from the US and sent live in Madagasgar.

I hadn't been in the arena for even an hour and I pulled my X45 joystick right out of the socket trying to follow a spit through a turn......... There was no blackout in the program. I just kept pulling on the stick and POP. Now I wasn't even able to play crappy ole Warbirds II.

It was probably a karma thing for flirting with IEN in the first place

[GtoRA2]

My cougar came close to being run over by a jeep.

The thing was about 3 years old but almost new in that I barely used it, started playing again, and in a month the the throttle pot went wonky.

for a 300$ stick its a POS.

so much wobble in the center its hard to calibrate, and there is no way I am spending another 300 to 600 to upgrade the POS.

thrustmaster,  I won't buy another stick from them and I have owned the original one that looked like phantom stick, a F16 FLCS, an F22, and now the cougar.

CH is the way to go, even if I have to copy Laz's rubber band setup!

[moneyguy]

Originally posted by Kurt


(if anyone knows a solution the CH Pro Pedals dragging brakes, PLEASE POST).

i adjusted the dead band, or dampener, one of them.

[Flatbar]

I flew AW for a few years using Logitechs Wingman Warrior stick. It worked fine but when AW3 came along and they added the fightertown arena I had some problems.

On two occasions while fighting the likes of Drano, Big-T and DD among many others, was a great arena, I was left with a limp stick after having it break off at the base. When I was offered a new one for free from Logitech I accepted it, made a great target at the range.

It's been CH gear ever since.

[Halo]

As a postscript I should add I got Logitech keyboards for both my computers and they've worked great for years.  Again, it was the outstanding ergonomics, at least for my preferences.

[OOZ662]

Mainly, it's the pots in Logitc joystick that are total crap. Any other product of theirs works fine.