Xbox 360 Controller Thumbstick Replacement
Earlier this week I received my Xbox 360 back from Microsoft for it’s RROD. Eagerly I sat down to play on my console only to discover that in the two week period of not having a 360, my controller was stepped on and a analog joystick was broken. Yes, I was disappointed that my controller was broken and I set out to work out a way to fix it.
I did a little research and found out that if you have an original Xbox S type controller that you are willing to part with, you can fix your more expensive 360 controller on the cheap.
You see it turns out that the analog joystick pickups are the same in each controller, so it is simply a matter of cracking each open and swapping in the working part.
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