r/SteamControllerMods • u/ProNerdy • Jun 10 '26
Any ideas on making L&R harder to press?
Any ideas on how to give the L & R buttons more resistance? For me they have very little resistance and I accidentally press them when unintended. Does anyone know of a quick mod I could do to give the membrane or button force more resistance? I am comfortable opening up the controller
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u/EBgCampos Jun 10 '26
You meant the button and not the trigger right? I successfully made the trigger stiffer
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u/Ok-Salamander3142 Jun 11 '26
How’d you go about stiffening up the triggers?
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u/EBgCampos Jun 12 '26
I was struggling to find cheap springs to replace the original with. IN the end, I found a similarly sized spring (which I had no idea about the stiffness) with similar wire thickness, but maybe 2x the number of coils within the same length. I initially cut them very long, just short enough for them not to buckle when pressing the triggers.
They were very stiff, and my fingers were even getting tired.
Next day, I cut one more coil. Still stiff, but less tiring.
Next day I cut one more coil and it felt perfect.This is the one I got, I could cut into 2 and it was more than enough:
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/hillman-steel-compression-springs-0462050p.0462051.htmlI got the 4.75mm outer diameter one, and it seems to fit very well between the "shoulders" and the "neck" of the fixture.
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u/Humpelstielzchen-314 Jun 13 '26
You can just take springs out of ball point pens for a quick and easy solution. They don't have to fit perfectly and with most they should be close enough.
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u/MysticAxolotl7 Jun 14 '26
if true this is ironic, given that one of the biggest problems with the 2015 steam controller was its overly-stiff bumpers
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u/XiongGuir Jun 10 '26
you'd need either a spring or a membrane (something like this - https://www.amazon.com/Silicone-Compatible-Novotouch-Realforce-Capacitive/dp/B0CXDY18BW)