Author Topic: cleaning the pots on a CH joystick (Read 642 times)

-ammo- · « **on:** September 28, 2001, 09:21:00 PM »

I have a CH combat stick. Recently I upgraded to Win2K and I love it

Now I have a prob with my joystick. I cant get a full throw from it in the pitch axis, and only when i pull back. as a mater of fact I only get about a 25% throw. I cant even black out a spit 5 at 325 IAS. So I have it open and I am looking at thinking I will clean it up, but I am clueless. How do I do it?

thx in advance

Maverick · « **Reply #1 on:** September 28, 2001, 09:55:00 PM »

On my old CH I just sprayed WD40 into it and let it dry off. It cured the spikes but I retired it as the springs were shot anyhow.

Mav

Good luck!

aztec · « **Reply #2 on:** October 01, 2001, 04:57:00 PM »

Hi Ammo,
Cleaning the pots is pretty ez, (must be if I can do it), remove em, they have a backing plate that is held on with tabs, just bend the tabs up, disassemble and use a q-tip and alcohol to clean the phenolic plates. It has been my experience that CH uses an abudance of lubrication on the pot shaft and it migrates to the plate inside. Not sure if dirty pots is causing your prob though...I assume you used the ch calibration utility, windows calibration, and AH calibration to in an attempt to fix your problem. If not, do so in the order listed. Hope some of this helps Ammo, <S>, Aztec

-ammo- · « **Reply #3 on:** October 01, 2001, 07:19:00 PM »

Thx fellas, I finally got it to work. I just kept calibrating it in windows over and over.Each time gave a little improvement over the last. It was strange to me that this was how the stick behaved. Eventually after many times of the same routine, I got full throws in all directions.

Thx again! <S>