MattM

I bought the Gunfighter with MCG Pro at VKB China store via Aliexpress. Took 6 days after ordering to get delivered to me in Germany. Also chose DHL Express, so no need to drive to the customs office or anything. Just had to pay VAT to the delivery guy. Will do the same when the TECS arrives in the future. Oh and the stick is fantastic, thanks alot VKB.

You need to pay 19% VAT on the total amount (so including shipping costs). No additional custom costs for hardware of this kind.

I'm selling the following: 1. TM Warthog flight stick: It currently has the adapter for the VKB Gladiator Pro Mk.1 installed, so i would prefer to sell it as it is and not replace the adapter with the normal TM connector, though that is a possibility if someone wants to take the adapter seperately. Since the adapter was not a tight and snuck fit and wobbled a little bit, i put some rubber between the adapter and the stick. It's basically invisible and it fixes the issue completely, but i'm mentioning it anyway. Overall it's in used condition, so some paints chipped off on some of the hat switches, but overall it works perfectly fine. Price: 150 EUR+shipping (that's with the adapter and the springs and cam that comes with it) 2. SOLD TM Warthog mounting plate for Monster Tech table mounts in silver in new condition: Price: SOLD 3. I also still have the normal TM Warthog stick gimbal with metal base plate and also a 7.5 cm stick extension, but the gimbal is really worn out, so i would prefer to not sell it together with the stick, but more as a spare part offer, if anybody is interested. Not sure what price i can take for all that, if you're interested, just let me know. Shipping is from Germany, i would prefer to ship it to European countries, but i would ship it to the US (though the shipping costs are a bit extreme). If you're interested but think the prices are too high, just let me know and we can try to figure something out.

Of course it won't be the comparable, but i'm mostly interested in some seperation of the pitch and roll axis as well as getting rid of the annoying center detend without simply removing the main spring and getting too weak spring force in the process. This mod seems to accomplish all that and considering that this will be about 10% of the cost of the Gladiator (which Warthog adapter will mostly come out next year at some point), i'm willing to make some compromises. I would prefer to test the Gladiator alongside the Warthog with this spring mod, that's why i'm wondering if the mod will be avaliable before the two weeks time for me sending the Gladiator back would expire.

Just when i ordered a Gladiator Pro, i stumbled accross those Warthog spring mod photos (you should really put add them to the opening post post :thumbup:). Any chance that it'll be ready in two weeks time? At least those for the stock Warthog without extension. Would order them right away, even just a prototype version. I wouldn't want to invest extra money in the Gladiator, when this spring mod will fix the only problems i have with the Warthog.

I can highly recommend the PTFE rings offered by Hempstead. Great fit and finish. I think the Warthog should've been shipped with that kind of ring in the first place instead of the rubber piece.

Hi zahry, my extension has finally arrived today. August 19th as shipping date, so i guess it didn't take that long after all. EDIT: The connector was wrong on my extension aswell (same as tonym), but i fixed that.

Hi Zahry, thanks for the info. I really hope it will turn up sometime in the next weeks or so. I don't want you to send a replacement or anything, it's my fault to not order with tracking, so i'll just have to be patient (can be hard though :joystick:) and hope for the best. Maybe our stupid customs guys are still trying to figure out where the New Zealand is. I'll definately tell them something when i pick it up and it was stuck there for weeks.

Mine has not arrived yet. I orded on 4th August. Could of course be, that it's stuck at customs office. Atleast that wouldn't surprise me, because our customs has been exceptionally lazy, annoying and incapable in the past. I hope it will arrive soon and that i won't have these kind of problems with the connector.

GA-EP45-EXTREME (rev. 1.0) S/N 025** Throttle plugged into USB port of my mainboard. I only plug it in when i need it (and with the PC booted up). I use an extension cord for that btw. The stick is plugged into my mainboard for almost three months now, never unplugged it. Both work fine, no problem whatsoever.