Cougar repair

The replacement antenna potentiometer for my Cougar joystick arrived after about two weeks from the dispatch from Thrustmaster support in Canada. The replacement of the existing faulty antenna pot was pretty straightforward.

Undo the side plate of the throttle:

Undo the screws holding the throttle handle to the arm:

Undo the screws hold the two halves of the throttle handle, one (the one nearest the antenna dial) is twice as long as the others.

The dials come pull off the potentiometers easily, you have to remove both the antenna and range dials.

Two split halves reveal the potentiometer that had to be replaced (top left corner).

The range pot has to be removed in order to get the antenna pot out, this doesn't require unsoldering that pot. There was quite a bit of glue in the throttle to hold cables in place that was easily removed. Then I just pulled out and unsoldered the existing faulty antenna pot and put in the new one and reassembled the throttle.

Getting the cables in the throttle handle is a bit fiddly to ensure a cable isn't pinched by the screws or joints. All good, a fully functional throttle again. Bloody excellent.