fixing sticktion problem has created another issue - TN Warthog Hotas

[treasure]

hi guys, after stripping the joystick base down, sanding, greasing and all that stuff, i began reassembling it.  when i just put the spring over the gimble and pushed it down to simulate the top plate holding the spring down, the gimble became very stiff to move, way way more stiff than when i started.  its so stiff that its virtually unusable.  i fully reassembled it, problem persisted.  i ended up getting a virpil base as i could not fix it, i have decided to have another go at fixing it, as hardware in the same device from different manufacturers makes the device unrecognisable to the auto button allocations functionality.  hope someone can help, i have poured hours of my life into this black hole with no solution in sight.

[GPatricks]

6 hours ago, treasure said:

hi guys, after stripping the joystick base down, sanding, greasing and all that stuff, i began reassembling it.  when i just put the spring over the gimble and pushed it down to simulate the top plate holding the spring down, the gimble became very stiff to move, way way more stiff than when i started.  its so stiff that its virtually unusable.  i fully reassembled it, problem persisted.  i ended up getting a virpil base as i could not fix it, i have decided to have another go at fixing it, as hardware in the same device from different manufacturers makes the device unrecognisable to the auto button allocations functionality.  hope someone can help, i have poured hours of my life into this black hole with no solution in sight.

 

If you have the Virpil WarBrd Base it's quite simple to have Win10 recognize it as a TM HOTAS WARTHOG Joystick and even TARGET will not know the difference. You use the VirPil Config Tool to load the stick, change the Virpil PID\VID's to be what the TM stick was, rename it, save and done - TM Stick is VID - 0x044F, PID - 0x0402.  I have that setup and use the TARGET software to run a DX128 script which then assigns a DX# to every switch\hat\button on the |Warthog Throttle. Then simply assign the key bindings in the sim. 

Edited July 25, 2021 by GaryR

[Lange_666]

8 hours ago, GaryR said:

 

If you have the Virpil WarBrd Base it's quite simple to have Win10 recognize it as a TM HOTAS WARTHOG Joystick and even TARGET will not know the difference. You use the VirPil Config Tool to load the stick, change the Virpil PID\VID's to be what the TM stick was, rename it, save and done - TM Stick is VID - 0x044F, PID - 0x0402.  I have that setup and use the TARGET software to run a DX128 script.

 

Same here, works nice.

[treasure]

nice, i will give it a go