DedEye

Bumping my own thread because I once again did what I had last time and forgot about following up with this repair for five years. This time the stick has been sitting on my desk rather than in a garage, so it's even more impressive I put it off since it wasn't even out of sight, and I can see the stick that I want to repair. I received a PM from rel4y back when I looked into this in 2019 as well, but since the forum migrated from eagle.ru to DCS.world, that PM is MIA, and the link supplied by Sierra99 is no longer working either. If anyone can still help with this, I'd love to get this fixed this month (or even this week), so I can't forget about it again.

Hello everyone. Long story short, it looks like whatever internals control the X and Y axis are both hosed. From what I've been reading, that'll be fixable using the prewired pots? In the ~8 years of so of not using my HOTAS Cougar (while it sat unused in a garage), I forgot the reason I had stopped trying to use it in the past - the Y axis doesn't work, and the X axis seems faulty as well. When moving the stick while watching the the Cougar Viewer or Foxy Analyzer, the stick doesn't accurately register movement in any direction. I've attached a screenshot of the Foxy Analyzer for reference, and only pushed the stick in each cardinal direction once. Pushing the stick left gets the most response, but still droops down on the Y axis, pushing right often causes detection to the left before bouncing to the right, and pulling back on the stick registers almost nothing on the Y axis unless I hold it. Are they still available for sale anywhere? I emailed FlyFoxy but the message bounced, leading me to believe they're not making/selling the components anymore. While I'm going to have to open up the stick anyway, I was curious if it's possible to increase the internal resistance on the stick / reduce the travel necessary for input to register? If I remember correctly, that would more closely emulate an actual F16's stick. I'm not aiming for absolute realism, but from more expensive purpose built simulators I've used, I did find the higher resistance / lower travel sticks more pleasant to use and with more fine control available. Is it possible to achieve this somehow? Thanks for the help!