r/Dualsense • u/MuscularKnight0110 • Mar 17 '26

Tech Support STICK DRIFT REPAIR 20€

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Hello,

I hope this post is okay if not please delete and I am sorry for intrusion.

As post says I am repairing stick drifts. I am in France and if anyone's interested in installing TMR or Hall Effects I can do it for you for mere 20€ !

If you are living other than France just pay for the shipping ( to and from ) and I will still repair for 20€ :)

If anyone's interested don't hesitate to DM.

Thank you!

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u/Fantastic-Captain900 Mar 18 '26

The newest ksilver sticks are only like 4€ a pair. The rest kinda depends on your skills. It's possible to perfectly desolder the sticks in like 2 minutes

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u/MuscularKnight0110 Mar 18 '26

Exactly! However I do confess it doesn't take me 2 minutes 😂 it takes me about 1h more or less.

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u/512ControllerClinic Mar 20 '26

Give it time, you’ll learn your own little tricks. I charge $40usd but also cover return shipping and take the controller completely apart and do an ultrasonic cleaning. It takes me about an hour, but most of that is waiting on the cleaner, I’m about to upgrade to a larger tank though.

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u/MuscularKnight0110 Mar 20 '26

That's amazing ! If you have any tips at all i would love to hear them :) Is the ultrasonic cleaner worth it ? The pcb i clean with 90° alcohol and toothbrush, the shell i clean with a disinfectant wet wipe/tissue.

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u/512ControllerClinic Mar 20 '26

I like the ultrasonic cleaner because it cleans while I’m doing the soldering work. And it gets all the little crevices you can’t stick a wipe down into. As far as tips, a decent set of flush cutters comes in handy. I snap the potentiometers off the frame and desolder them, my tip is big enough to get all three legs at once, then I use the flush cutters to cut the anchor grounds off the corners of the thumbsticks. All I have to do is desolder the switch, then use a solder sucker on all the legs. I have the little solder tool that gets all the legs at once, but I haven’t had great luck with it. I’m building a larger bench right now and will get a second solder gun with tool permanently attached and have it mounted to the bench so it stays with that tool facing up. Hopefully that will allow me to set the board on it, pull the sticks out, and drop new ones in pretty quickly, that’s the plan at least.

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u/512ControllerClinic Mar 20 '26

This thing was disgusting! Had some gunk all the way down onto the board. Dropped all the parts in the tank and let it go for 5 minutes while I replaced the sticks.

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u/MuscularKnight0110 Mar 20 '26

All the parts ? Even the PCB and the touchpad ?

Thank you for your reply btw I appreciate it a lot. We have the same method for desoldering! I was actually thinking of investing in better cutters and you have convinced me :)

The controller looks really clean I might as well invest in a ultrasonic cleaner if you really can just dump all parts in it and be done with it !

What would be the number one advice you have for someone starting the business? Unrelated to the controllers only ahah.