By Kuang on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 10:57 am:

Cheers all :)

I decided to have a poke around inside it and found that whilst the wheel is anchored by the pivot at one end, the other end is held in place by two semicircular tracks, one on each half of the case. These are greased and grip loosely onto a collar around the wheel shaft. It seems the only was to reduce the movement would be to stick a strip of plastic around one track and grease over it, as the play is purely down to tolerances in the case design.

No matter, I can live with it - it's helping me monster some of the tougher tracks in TOCA 3, so I'm grateful enough for that to look past a bit of slack ;)

By tom on Monday, June 19, 2006 - 11:22 pm:

Formula Force (the old red withe cable drive you mean?) is quite different from Formula Force GP. Both have some slack, but overall the GP feels "cheaper" - hard to tell exactly why. Well, except probably because it is.

By pjakesson on Monday, June 19, 2006 - 11:19 pm:

I have had 2 new Wingman Formula Force ( I guess
that is the same wheel), and they had both
significant slack in the wheel itself.

Though it didn't disturb the operation, it
felt a bit "cheap".

By Anonymous on Monday, June 19, 2006 - 03:43 pm:

It's not the most solid device compared to others with ball bearings and all that. It shouldn't be super-loose, either. Hard to say what is "normal".

If this is a used (sorry, "previously loved") unit, I would expect some amount of slack developing. If it's a completely new unit, the slack should not be too large (again "not too large" is very vague). You have to see another unit to have a comparison.

If you do decide to open it up to investigate it further, it's dead simple - unscrew the screws on the bottom case, and the top just pops off with no hassle.

By Kuang on Monday, June 19, 2006 - 02:19 pm:

I've recently bought a FFGP wheel (the red and black geared model) and it's a great piece of kit, but there appears to be a fair amount of vertical slack on the wheel itself. Is this fairly normal for this model? I also thought that it was very tight horizontally when new but a week or so on there is now some slack in that direction, such that I have to ask myself if I imagined it was tight to start with :) If this isn't normal, is it easy/worth trying to tighten it up, or should I just get it replaced?

Cheers!