Thrustmaster Warthog Joystick died - Market?

Hey guys,

My Warthog Joystick pretty much gave up yesterday.

It happened suddenly while in flight with a P-51.

The joystick became super loose, with no resistance in pitch and roll.

I'm sure there's a way to somehow open this up and fix it. But i'm a bit lazy and decided to order a new one.

I was wondering if someone knew of a market for these things?

Only way I could picture that happening is the lip breaking off the disk where the big centering spring rides. You would have noticed that though because it would make a racket if that spring snapped down. Or maybe the lip on the main cup that tilts.

It's really simple to pull apart and look. It might be as simple as getting a 30 dollar part from thrustmaster and you'll have a working base unit again.

If not keep it for parts.

I live in Canada, how much do you want for the whole broken stick?

Thrustmaster selling replacement parts? (cool, if so).

They do on some at least. I bought an articulation sphere from them with no issues.

Based on posts in this same forum seems that Tm sell replacement parts for some guys, but not for others.

I wondered if this has relation on what part of the world the "bad luck" guy live... :)

They do on some at least. I bought an articulation sphere from them with no issues.

If anything, that's probably the one item to have as a backup.