I got the Warthog stick from
Badger last month, and found the stiffness to be quite a bit too strong for my liking, especially compared to the Saitek X55 stick I had been using. The Warthog has a very pronounced center position, and fights me constantly trying to return to the center position.
Some guys swear by extension tubes that effectively reduce the force needed to move the stick, but you'd have to have mounting options that I don't have. My base has to be at keyboard drawer level.
I found that one of the guys who sells the extension tubes also sells different replacement springs.
https://warthog-extensions-by-sahaj.com ... n-springs/
I bought the "green" spring, which is a weaker spring. It took about 3 weeks to arrive from somewhere in Europe.
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Verdict? It's better. I probably should have gotten some sort of scale to measure the force needed to move the stick from the center position, but it is noticeably easier now. It still has a very pronounced
'THIS is the center position!' spot that it wants to be in, but I don't feel like it's fighting me nearly as much. If I had to guess, I'd say the force required to move it from the center position is now 60-75% of what it was with the original spring. Still a bit more than what I would like, but I feel like I can work with it now.
