TM Warthog joystick tension modification

[DirtyFret]

I have had the pleasure of owning a TM Warthog set for quite sometime now. The quality and robustness is amazing and I am very pleased with it. However, I did have problems from the start with the extreme forces required to deflect the stick. As a tabletop controller without any extensions it was quite hard to deflect the stick accurately so I removed the main coil spring and switched the smaller coils on top of the pressure plate.

 

I was very happy with the result because playing DCS did not feel like a workout anymore and subsequently my right forearm was not aching all the time like it was back in high school. :music_whistling:

 

However, flying heli's I realized that the missing center snap is a issue so I tinkered a bit more and found a good compromise modification. The ones that consider tinkering or altering the Warthog controller a heresy be warned: look away :smilewink:

 

 

P.S. Any tips on where to order proper standardized or custom coil springs?

[cichlidfan]

P.S. Any tips on where to order proper standardized or custom coil springs?

 

Not from TM. :P

 

I asked them about getting a set of the four small springs and they quoted a price over $40. :cry:

[DirtyFret]

Not from TM. :P

 

I asked them about getting a set of the four small springs and they quoted a price over $40. :cry:

 

Industrial springs could do the trick. They make them big and they make them small. Dunno if you can order only 4 of them though. They might send a crate full of them :megalol: . Although in all seriousness estimating the proper measurements (wire d, rotation count, spring constant etc) would be a total guess-game.

 

http://www.industrial-springs.com/

[Oydoron]

Have you tried http://www.amazonsupply.com/ ? What are the required dimensions?