Joystick mods

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

Be very careful cracking the joysticks open. As our team found out the hard way, of the 6 joysticks we opened, EVERY SINGLE ONE had completely different colored wires inside (and run through the DB15 cable as well). So if something breaks, putting it back together is near impossible.

Never again will we touch the inside of those joysticks. They are so finicky and easily broken that we are scared to even shake the things

This really irritated us... I can't believe a company would use basically random colors for the wires inside... We've been competing since 2003, and have one set of these piles of crap for every year except 2005 when we didn't compete since 2004. I don't think any two of them were the same this year when we tried to make a mod since our only two flightsticks from 2003 that we've used every year are getting to be a little bit shabby.