Funny story. I was fumbling around and grabbed my headphones off the desk. When I did the cord pulled a whole cup of coffee off the desk and onto my MS FF2 while it was on (it was situated on my keyboard roll out tray). It immediately stopped working, the light went out and everything. I was like "OH SHNIZT!" Took it all apart and there was coffee all over the circuits board as well as had shorted out the main power connector. Cleaned it all out, washed the PCB down with alcohol, cleaned all the gears and the gimbals. Put it back together, crossed my fingers, and it's still working like new to this day. There is no finer consumer grade joystick on on the planet in my humble opinion.