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Offline SC-Sp00k

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« Reply #45 on: October 09, 2002, 07:52:58 AM »
My Cougar arrives tommorrow. I bled from the eyeballs to get it.

If the thing falls apart in a thousand pieces im gonna tell the wife I love it. Ill tell her its the most adorable Combat related piece of kit ive ever owned and will ever own.

Life wont be worth living if she ever finds out theres gonna be problems with it.


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« Reply #46 on: October 09, 2002, 01:26:56 PM »
There is no way a stick that gets the level and amount of use is going to remain perfect forver..  There are physical contacts occuring and there will be wear under any circumstances.  The Potentiometers used are standard HIGH quality Pots, which in the case of the cougar allow you to simply get commercial replacecments.  The F22 had a specific shaft that was non standard and a pain in the butt to machine...

Magnetic sensors are a good way to go, but I have had no problem with my Cougar and use it a ton..  If I ever do get a problem I'll get new pots either from TM or commercially..they are very inexpensive.

I have a Cougar because my F22 simply died..  I have rebuilt and rewired it numerous times in 5 years and I would estimate that I got at least 4000 hours of hard use from that puppy..  TM is dropping this line because it is a low volume highly specialized market..  they sold over 10000 of them, but it cost a lot to make and ship.  

Its a personal decision, I for one love it and want to keep it running because without this style of stick I don't enjoy flying..  I got so accustomed to my F22 that when it finally died I stopped flying for the most part..it just wasn't fun..  all the familiarity was gone...
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Offline Tracer-15

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« Reply #47 on: October 09, 2002, 02:02:32 PM »
ive had my TM Top Gun for four years now and ive had absoloutly ZERO problems with it
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Offline Maverick

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« Reply #48 on: October 09, 2002, 02:09:26 PM »
I won't buy a TM product as long as there is another choice available. I have a brand new platinum top gun in the box that I can't use on my system. Why? Because it will not interface with the TM brand rudder pedals I have, or any other rudder pedals without the purchase of an additional controller card. :mad: It took TM tech support over 8 weeks to figure that out. :rolleyes:

This company had the EARNED nickname of Bustmaster many years ago. It has not changed in my experiance. I have my first ch stick, sloppy but still works at 7 years old, a pro stick over 5 years old that my son uses and my "new" pro stick over 1.5 years old and they ALL work. The TM doesn't.

Nuff said
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Offline Mathman

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« Reply #49 on: October 09, 2002, 02:44:11 PM »
My Saitek X36 started spiking and losing calibration after only a month of use.  I sent it in to Saitek to get it fixed.  When I got it back, they assured me that it was fixed.  Two weeks later, the same crap started happening.  I went back to my MS PP2.

Ordered a Cougar and have been using it since April without a single problem (well, there was the button that popped off when it fell off my desk, but it went back on without a prob and works fine).

Everybody has their horror stories of some particular peice of equipment, from joysticks to cars.  I am very happy with my Cougar, as are many others.  There are many that aren't.

Different strokes and all....
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Offline AKIron

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« Reply #50 on: October 09, 2002, 05:28:36 PM »
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Originally posted by Kirin
AKIron - why don't you just post a link to that 'hall sensor mod'? :D

Or else mail me!

kirin@fw-190.com


Certainly, here ya go.

http://cubpilot.home.att.net/page17.html

Not sure if this link mentions the price but I learned from an email his price is about $125 plus shipping.
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« Reply #51 on: October 09, 2002, 11:09:02 PM »
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Originally posted by Bonden
Rude:

I can also remember when the bank would loan you money on a good idea. I also have grey hair but as I get older I cant ...umm
......  geez, it was on the tip of my eerrrmmm....uumm - n/m


What you said...or tried to say

:)
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