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Flight Sim Yoke (Read 202 times)
Jun 8th, 2004 at 5:22pm

Ungrounded4Once   Offline
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Cry   I know this may hard to believe, but my little dog ate my flight yoke! Actually he chewed the connection cable on my CH Pro flightr sim yoke. I have been only able to fly using the keyboard. Can any one suggest how I can fix this problem. I hate to go out and buy a new one as this one is only 5 months old.
 

Brace, Brace, Brace.........
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Reply #1 - Jun 8th, 2004 at 5:37pm
BiggBaddWolf   Ex Member

 
If the wires inside are color coded......them connect the colors.and wrap some electrical tape around them. Shocked
 
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Reply #2 - Jun 8th, 2004 at 8:04pm

MattNW   Offline
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No reason you shouldn't be able to splice the wires back. As long as you have enough room between the plug and the broken end to cut away a little insulation you should be able to do a fairly good job with a touch of solder and either electrical tape or shrink tubing. I'd suggest the tubing as it looks neater than when taped. Just make sure you cover the inner wires so that they don't touch each other and then put a wrap larger shrink tubing on the outside. Oh, make sure you slide the outer tubing up over the whole thing before you connect the inner wires. I've forgotten to do that once or twice and it's embarassing when you have to cut them all once again and start over.  Embarrassed Embarrassed Grin

 

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Reply #3 - Jun 8th, 2004 at 9:49pm

Moach   Offline
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ROFL Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin

my dog did the EXACT SAME THING to my sidewinder force feedback

i fixed it but my cable is much shorter now Grin

c ya

Moach
 

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