Replicating an analog stick potentiometer?

[Fluxedo]

I've got an idea for a future project and I was wondering how I could "re create" the potentiometer that the GC analog sticks use? Would I just need any kind of 10k potentiometer (what I assumed)? This is probably a pretty dumb question but I was confused when I got readings of 30k-15k while using a multimeter on a Nintendo GameCube analog stick because I thought the potentiometers were 10k.

for context, I'm wanting to make a 3DS slider type mechanism but ~5x larger using sliding 10k potentiometers.

Again, like I said this is probably something really silly I'm missing because I've never really tinkered with analog sticks like this.

Thanks!

 

[Aurelio]

10k or whatever, shouldn't make much difference, just don't use too small or too big pot. Also if you really want to measure the potentiometer value you should desolder it from the board