Turtle Beach VelocityOne Flight Yoke Spindle

In a cruel twist of fate, and despite being packed in the original box inside another box with padding, Icelandair's baggage handlers managed to break my Turtle Beach VelocityOne Flight yoke.

The part that broke on mine is pretty important for structure, and caused the yoke to wiggle quite a bit.

Turtle Beach doesn't keep replacement parts on hand to sell (which is understandable), and I was not successful in supergluing my original part back together, so I modeled and printed this replacement.

Printing

I printed mine with Prusament Jet Black filament on a textured sheet at 50 percent infill and a 0.15 mm layer height. The Jet Black on a textured bed blends into the yoke pretty well.

Disassembly

1. Use a plastic spudger to remove all 12 rubber inserts on the back of the yoke.
   
   
    
2. Remove all of the screws. There are 8 large screws, 2 small screws near the left and right triggers, and 2 small shorter screws near the triggers. Remember that you can pull back on the yoke to get more clearance. Note: I didn't keep track of where the small short screws go. Please let me know in a comment where they come from when you take yours apart, and I'll update this guide.
    
3. Use a plastic spudger to carefully unclip the front half of the yoke (the side with the screen) from the back half. There are two clips in the bottom center, and there seems to be some clipping action near the hats on either side. I had good success using a spudger to get under the thumb rests. The grips will need to lift up slightly to clear some of the internal components.
   
   
    
4. When you separate the front from the back, there are four cables in total to unplug. The first two are in the grip on the left and right of the yoke.
   
   
    
5. Of the four cables, the third is in the center. You can unplug it from either end.
   
   
    
6. The fourth and final cable feeds the yoke. You can either try to cut the zip tie that holds it in place, or you can take out the two small screws that hold the plastic clip. You can see in the photo that I tried cutting the zip tie before deciding to remove the two screws.
   
   
    
7. Remove the two small screws holding the roll sensor in place, and remove the sensor board. Note: You can see some other screws that I removed here. You don't need to remove these or the part they hold in.
   
   
   
   
    
8. There are two small press-fit pins that need to be removed. Use a pair of pliers to clamp on either side of the part, pressing on the pin from the inside.
   
   
    
9. Use the pliers to pull the pins completely out.
   
   
    
10. Remove the back part of the spindle assembly, and then the spring. Don't worry, the spring is under very little tension.
    
    
     
11. Pull off the rear thrust bearing. From here, pay attention to where there is grease, so you can replace when you install new parts.
    
    
     
12. You can now slide off the the yoke and inner bearing, revealing the broken spindle.
    
    
     
13. The yoke spindle simply pulls off of the metal yoke rod.

Assembly

Reassembly is simply the reverse. When you reinstall each screw, be sure to turn it backwards until you hear it “click”, indicating that it has lined up with the threads, before threading in the screw.

I recommend using some Super Lube Multi-Purpose Grease between the spindle, inner yoke bearing, and thrust bearing. A little bit goes a long way.