Futaba Update

After several hours on a flight simulator I realised that the right hand controller started to feel funny, slightly loose. Not long after that I noticed that the casing on the control stick had a fracture all the way through and would enable me to pull the stick out. In a short time after that sweat from chronic use of the joystick was enough to pull the stick out of its port. On a simulator it didn’t bother me to much, but if it had of been on a real helicopter things could have been a little different. So in my wisdom I figured I should be able to fix it. So moments later the backing is off. At this point I realised that this radio has been either in a few little bingles or 1 half decent fall eg. off a kitchen table or a garage bench. The rest of the radio had been repaired really well, and now after pulling the whole radio apart know why this one was left how it was. It wasn’t any easy task as their was many screws, couple of springs (which always fall out) and a couple of pins in the way of the resurrection of the joystick. With a little bit of fiddling around, some superglue and a lot of cursing it did manage to go back together. Putting the pin back in place was where most of the swearing occurred as I kept on knocking the spring off. Overall I must admit I don’t think I would have done this on a new radio as there was some fear that I wasn’t going to get it back together again.