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Title: Repairing a bad Hat on a CH stick
Post by: 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 (http://snomhf.exofire.net/hatRepair.html)

Title: Repairing a bad Hat on a CH stick
Post by: The Fugitive 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 !  

Title: Repairing a bad Hat on a CH stick
Post by: HomeBoy 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

Title: Repairing a bad Hat on a CH stick
Post by: Shamus on February 05, 2008, 02:14:20 PM

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

shamus

Title: Repairing a bad Hat on a CH stick
Post by: moneyguy on February 05, 2008, 10:36:58 PM

great DIY writeup. thanks :aok

Title: Repairing a bad Hat on a CH stick
Post by: TequilaChaser 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....:aok

Title: Repairing a bad Hat on a CH stick
Post by: The Fugitive 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 !

Title: Repairing a bad Hat on a CH stick
Post by: HomeBoy 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.