Lubricating my joystick

[zahnartz62]

Hatter..you remind me of a visit to Hawai years ago. I sat on the sand as my wife splashed in the water..she started arm signals..look to the left..I did..2 topless young ladies were moving into my line of vision..I was, like you, filled with Rightous Indignation and Outrage..so I Stared at them witherlingly!! I showed them all the way past until a 14 old boy slid up onto the sand on his surf board, looked up at those Naughty Bits...and had an Epiphany Moment..that I envied!! Cheers..never miss the chance to give someone a laugh!

[Norseman]

-using a candle here..on the "base-disks".
Easy as that..

~s~

[Warhound]

Also using an X52 pro here and I fixed the sticking by tying thin string around the spring. Used 2 strings to compress the main spring enough so that the tension eased up a bit.
It made the resistance lower and removed the sticking completely.
Tried graphite and grease before but those never worked as good, are messy and lost their effect rather quickly.

[Outlaw]

I found that the sticking on my X-52 was at the upper lip of the, "dish". I used chap-stick around the edge and nothing down in the dish (to prevent it from gumming up with dust and cat-fur). It was so easy I could even touch it up in flight.

I also did what Warhound did on the spring except I used a couple of garbage bag ties. It was easy to adjust and, once again, I could do it in flight.

That worked great for about over a year until one day my X-52 suddenly impacted the wall at a high rate of speed. Nothing worked very well after that. So I got a G-940 and bolted it into my cockpit so hopefully it won't meet the same fate.

--Outlaw.

[zahnartz62]

Thanks for tips...!

[vox]

I thought of WD40 myself but it is too liquid so I used standard grease on the springs and bottom side of the metal disc below the springs. It's all smooth now.

[Romilis]

Do not use Wd40. It will over time erode plastic parts such as orings and rubber gaskets. Silicon spray is the recommended Lube.

[F16_Neo]

You should try to avoid spray lubricants, made my old EVO worse.
What did help was using a candle, not just on the disc but on the shaft where the disc slides.
Seems like some sprays degrades the plastic and makes it coarser.