Shoutout to the old trick of adding a tiny drop of thread locker to analog stick screws

I was fighting with loose thumbsticks on a DualShock 4 for months, swapping them out every few weeks. Finally tried putting just a dab of blue Loctite on the screws that hold the stick module in place, not the plastic posts. It solved the wobble on three controllers and I haven't had to touch them since late summer. Anybody else got a simple fix like this that saved them from buying new parts?

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veramartin20d ago

Blue Loctite on the stick module screws" is actually not where most of the wobble comes from on DS4s. The screws just clamp the module to the board, the wobble is usually from the plastic stick cup wearing out or the shaft getting loose inside the sensor. I tried doing the same thing and it helped a tiny bit but the real fix was swapping the analog stick sensor unit itself (the whole square part under the stick). If your sticks are still wobbly after the Loctite, that's probably the real problem.

jordan30520d ago

20 bucks for a whole new sensor unit just seems overkill unless you're getting mad drift along with the wobble. I've had controllers with loose sticks that still worked fine for years.