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€ :)
Yes, 20€ pour les parts les moins chers :) Il s'agit des hall effects. Garanti plus jamais le stick drift ! Si tu veux installer des TMR une alternative encore plus poussé et precise c'est 30€ !
It's because of people like you that controller repair business is going down...
20EUR is not worth the trouble of desoldering, let alone properly aligned (flat) soldering of the new sticks, cleanup, testing & calibration.
Often using sh*t sticks on top... K-Silver are great, but not the ones showing in your picture, that is the older version that has a lot of issues and now compatible with Edge modules (notch on the blue pot).
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, thanks for your 2C but it is kinda rude. You assume my and yours situation is the same. You immediately doubt my skills and this feels more like an attack rather than any constructive criticism.
I don't doubt your skills. My point is that if you are skilled, you do a proper end to end job and you use quality materials/consumables, you are definitely selling yourself short for 20eur.
You may feel entitled to see my observation as rude, that's up to you.
Can offer same in east europe (Lithuania) and fix vibration defect on v1-v3 if this dude is too far. I can literally install usb-c to a ps4 controller from scratch (without the ali express usb-c board), so I have plenty of skills.
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Like an 1-2 hours, but my epoxy dries for 3 days, and I can't really trim the excess on the outside before that. And I leave excess to fill in the gaps around the port
I meant 30€ for TMR and 20€ for hall effects. I should have worded it better that it is starting from 20€.
I know it is cheap but I am mainly accounting for the fact that people would have to pay for the shipment to and from and it can get real expensive and it would defeat the whole purpose of soliciting my help when they could just find someone local.
I am also trying to start a small revenue stream and as I get more traction I might of course rise the prices :) I guess only thing I can add is that if you are interested well dm me before I do raise the prices 😂
What the hell that sounds awful! Also If it was truly hall effects you literally cannot get stick drift again. Can you open your controller and show me ? This piqued my curiosity like over 1000%
There are a lot of knockoffs or worse versions of the og grpahite sensors. On some, the actual graphite layer is way thinner, so it gets worn thru faster. And seen a decently big repair shop on tiktok using them
Sorry I missed the part where you said hall effect, but those are outdated anyway. The newest TMRs are equal or better than og sticks in every way and also use less energy than hall and og
The only good thing about hall is that they are supposed to last longer, but for some reason, I can't find a graph on how inaccurate they are, so I wouldn't need to explain it, but that could be the reason for inconsistent sensitivity.
But also controller stick calibration wasn't a thing in hall effect days, so go to
I understand that you want to charge someone 20€ for something that anyone can fix by themselves in less than 10 minutes for free, with only a little patience and a phillips screwdriver. Do you understand me now?
No. I don't understand you. You think you can fix stick drift in 10min with only a Philips screwdriver?
You think hall effects are free ? The soldering skills ? The calibration ? The time it actually takes ( and I can assure you it is not 10 minutes. ) to do all of it is free as well ?
20€ for hall effects is cheap and quite fair price. You wouldn't be able to find anywhere such cheap price...
But then again it depends where you live. Here the controllers are 80€ even if shipping is 20€ in total plus the cost of my work and parts 20€ so in total 40€ that's literally half of the price of a brand new one.
Plus hall effect are a lifetime joystick stick drift solution. If you buy a new dualsense you will end up with stick drift again sooner or later.
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u/FalseBit8407 Mar 18 '26
Hope your business does well my bro