Author Topic: Repairing a bad Hat on a CH stick (Read 364 times)

HomeBoy · « **on:** February 03, 2008, 08:11:40 PM »

After some communication with The Fugitive et. al., I decided to put together a little tutorial on how to repair a bad Hat on a CH stick. Hope you find it useful.

CH Hat Repair Tutorial

The Fugitive · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2008, 09:46:26 PM »

Thanks HomeBoy. Mine turned out to be a intermittent button. I got an analog stick for parts, de-soldered a switch (you can replace a single switch, in my case the "left" one. After de-soldering, you can pop out the one switch that is bad with out doing the whole hat) , replaced mine and its as good as new !

Thanks for putting this together !

HomeBoy · « **Reply #2 on:** February 04, 2008, 09:49:26 AM »

Thanks for the "single switch" tip. For some reason I hadn't thought about that. I just pull the whole hat out. Duh!

Glad you got your stuff up and going again.

-hb

Shamus · « **Reply #3 on:** February 05, 2008, 02:14:20 PM »

That was real nice Homeboy, I bookmarked it. thanks.

shamus

moneyguy · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2008, 10:36:58 PM »

great DIY writeup. thanks

TequilaChaser · « **Reply #5 on:** February 05, 2008, 11:31:46 PM »

seriously, HomeBoy should be snatched up by CH Products as an East Coast Tech Rep.......

I recall ole Ack-Ack was CH Tech Rep back in 95/96 or so....1st guy I had ever talked over the phone to, that also played AW

Homeboy's tutorials / insightfulness is priceless....

The Fugitive · « **Reply #6 on:** February 06, 2008, 07:54:10 AM »

I had talked to CH about my switch problem looking to buy a hat switch. Well they don't sell hat switches, and wanted me to box it up and ship it to them, plus $20 and they would fix it and ship it back.

I got my father old CH fighter stick (analog) took it apart, and used those parts to repair mine. After looking at Homeboys pictures and tutorials I knew what I was getting into before I turned the first screw! A couple hours of fooling around and testing and my stick is like new. 2 hours of down time is much better than 2 weeks !!!

Thanks again Homeboy !

HomeBoy · « **Reply #7 on:** February 07, 2008, 02:22:30 PM »

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Originally posted by The Fugitive
I had talked to CH about my switch problem looking to buy a hat switch. Well they don't sell hat switches, and wanted me to box it up and ship it to them, plus $20 and they would fix it and ship it back.

I got my father old CH fighter stick (analog) took it apart, and used those parts to repair mine. After looking at Homeboys pictures and tutorials I knew what I was getting into before I turned the first screw! A couple hours of fooling around and testing and my stick is like new. 2 hours of down time is much better than 2 weeks !!!

Thanks again Homeboy !

$20 for a repair is really not bad. They would be hard pressed to do it any cheaper than that. I have to admit, I don't think I'd want to do a repair like that for much less less. Trouble is, by the time you pay shipping, etc., you begin to get close to the price of a new one. A far better approach is to try and teach folks to DIY. That's what I want to do. I don't want people sending me their stuff. It's not cost effective for anybody anyway.

I do hope more guys will try to do a lot of these repairs themselves as it's really not that hard and you can save big bucks.

I appreciate the kind words btw. Nice to know I'm having a positive influence around here.