NikonGuy

Hi guys I have been following this thread for a while and only just got around to modifying my warthog stick. My background is aircraft maintenance engineering and mechanical design engineering. A couple of things though: I have removed the large spring and placed the four small springs on top of the teflon plate but looking at this, its not a good option as the springs totally compress when the stick is moved all the way in any direction. When you push the stick hard against the stops its the compressed springs that are now those stops. Eventually they will fail if used in this manner. For light use it would be fine for a while. A better option would be to have a large spring made from a lower gauge spring steel, not easy I know. As for binding, this too has plagued my stick and after some investigation I have found the cause to be the teflon plate that slides up and down the four chrome posts. Mine was slightly out of alignment with the four chrome posts so I loosened the screws that hold the teflon plate down and operated the stick mechanism to re-center everything. Then gently re-tightened them. As they are countersunk screws if you tighten too much the countersink could just pull it back out of alignment :( While I was there I also added Molycote to the teflon plate and the rubber ring on the underside of the square opening around stick mechanism. My stick is now as smooth as a babies bum :) Although I will be putting a reduced rate large spring in it at some stage. Cheers NG