joystick troubles

[muddobber]

Good morning to all; My 8yr old got ahold of my joystick(logitech wingman force feedback) needless to say, it's not working anymore(sort of flies where it wants to)recalibration did nothing, can I take it apart? or just deep 6 it? Thanks

[Skittles]

I had a friends son get a hold of one of mine.

Before I decided to trash it, I opened it up. Found that one of the springs popped of and a wire snapped.  I reattached the spring and welded the wire back on. Worked great for another three years before I upgraded.

My suggestion, once you decide to trash it, go ahead and open it up. If you can fix it, great, if not, you were going to throw it away anyway right?

[Aiden327]

Did it take anything special to open it? I lost the x axis and FFB on my realy old Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feeback 2 a few years ago and this sparked the idea of looking inside. However it has these really odd shaped security screws on the bottom. After some searching they are very similar to the Tri Wing screws made by this company, but they have 4 wings instead of 3. http://www.tamperproof.com/categories/products.html

This joystick is collecting dust and I have a few old games that don't like my X52, and with a logitech G940 shipping for Christmas I believe those old games will be lost forever if I don't fix this old