You should have gone with Hall effect replacements since that’s a permanent fix. Not knocking on your effort, it’s a delicate work and you’ve got some practice in for the time you’ll have to go back to do that :)

I tried this but eventually it got drifty again. I then swapped the joysticks for the Gulikit hall effect sticks and resolved the issue permanently.

Also, I think the design of the joycon is good. It was much easier to repair than the gen1 quest controller. When I attempted to do the same shim fix I broke some ribbon cable clip rendering it unusable.

Bloody tiny ribbon cables...

My sister would hammer the shit out of the sticks - not abuse but just near constant usage. Needed to get a spare con for each side to hot swap for when the inevitable happened. I can do stick swaps pretty quick these days, all done in the palm of the hand.

She's just had the Switch 2 delivered so I'm just waiting for the call now 😬

Nice job, nice to see people being able to fix their stuff 🌞

You can switch them out for hall effect some would say that would be Nintendos job but eh. Good job I hope it lasts

I don't know. Spraying wd40 in (yes really) seems much easier and also easily redone when needed.

Also purchasing an 8bitdo ultimate.