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Old 12-19-2009, 10:29 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by cygnus View Post
Just a thought - couldn't you just pull your controllers apart, and remove the offending springs?
Belive me, I tried and I'm fairly decent with a soldering iron. The problem is with how these small joysticks are constructed. They have a large metal flashing on the exterior of the joystick that's been wave-soldered down. I ruined 2 gamepads trying to carefully de-solder this flashing and removing the bent metal strip that acts as the spring.

The first one didn't work when I re-soldered it and the second one the joystick wouldn't stay still, it just flopped to one corner. I came to the conclusion these cheap sticks were never meant to be springless.

I'd really love a joystick option like that though, both spring and springless have their uses.
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