Woody81

How did you get on with your week off? Much progress? I'm waiting for a local CNC company to give me a quote for cutting the ribs. I'm anticipating it being fairly reasonable and thinking £250 is probably the most it's gonna be. I'll still need the pedestal and seat doing, but I have already started the seat with the jigsaw so probably will just do that by hand. I'll let you know once I do. Getting impatient though as they said they'd get back to me on Monday

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So I spent some time adjusting the SKP file from Ausmumbles and I've sent it off to a local CNC shop.... Just waiting for them to get back to me with a price..... Who knows, maybe this time next week I'll have a Tomcat jigsaw to play with!!

Hey! Welcome! I personally think its a great idea collating all the information into something that is easy to navigate and use. There is a lot of fantastic information on here but it can be hard to find what you're looking for. I have recently spent a lot of time jumping back and forth looking for particular things that I know I've seen somewhere or other! Open Hornet has a website does it not? Personally have zero experience coding/website building but I'd be happy to chip in with anything that I could help with. good to give back to a community that has given so much.

Haha! Definitely been a couple of years at least for me. Always seems like everything else takes priority, annoyingly. I've got 6 days off coming up after these shifts so I'll be calling the local laser/CNC shop to see what they can do. Might also have a play with the laser cutter and get some more panels cut/engraved. I've got the files for the tomcat throttle somewhere too so may start 3d printing those, although I had thought about trying to get it done by a metal fabrication place for the weight/feel/durability. I've not even been on the pc in the last 6/8 weeks. Is it possible to miss a virtual plane?!

Ahh awesome! love seeing the progress that everyone is making. Never considered having it laser cut.... might actually look into it. I've printed a few bits, done some designs for panels for the laser cutter and other bits for 3d printing, but i'm no where near this stage. Productive use of my break time at work coming up!

ah, that looks great! how much ply did you end up using? i've used mumbles files and taken the measurements from that best i could. it was time consuming! How did you convert the sketchup files into something that could be used by a laser/cnc cutter and was it expensive to do? sorry loads of questions!!

Excellent! Very well done!

@BULLITT83 I've been looking into some stuff, and maybe a good solution for the slip indicator would be a screen export. I've been watching various bits and bobs and saw a tutorial about screen export that is really good. I'm off work tomorrow (and my 3 monitors have arrived!!) so I'll be having a play... I'll try this out, and if works I'll report back.

Bullitt, Mumbles, Thanks a bunch!! That's awesome. I had guessed at around 110mm height and whatever 9.25" is in mm for length! Looking forward to getting on with this. probably next part I'll mess around with after this is the fire handles, 3D printed of course, Just got some yellow PLA and some more black delivered, annoyingly though I need to re-tram the bed and I'm working for the next 4 days. Then the Mrs has decided we're going away for the weekend, and then my old man wants to go fishing before I go back to work. Definitely have to try and squeeze a couple of hours play time in somewhere. Anyway, bed time for me, thanks again, much appreciated you sharing your files.

Does anyone have dimensions for the ACM panel front please? I'm working on TLAR but, don't seem to be able to get it. Once I've got the front part designed in Inkscape, I'll share the Files. I'm also working at making an accurate looking switch for the Gun rate, SW cool, MSL prep and mode buttons. I was watching someone do Korry buttons/switches for an Airbus or Boeing simulator and I thought that I could use a similar design. I'm basing it on a square momentary switch and two LEDs per button. I was thinking about small custom PCBs too, but I think it would be better just doing it with those copper boards with holes in. Guess that would be more accessible for other people too

It wasn't supposed to be like this today!!! 3D printer is being a twat. It's something to do with the CR touch unit but I don't have time to sort it now. Then I've just ran the warning light panel fronts off on the laser cutter, Painted, rear engraved, great. But No!! I used raster engrave instead of vector engrave so they're all crap. oh well, I'm off work again Wednesday so It'll have to wait until then. in the meantime the hound is mithering me for a walk! have a good Easter everyone!

Very welcome, Hope they are some use!

Been messing around with this last couple of days... printed these off again and decided they could be better. Updated AoA indexer (thinner case) and Warning lights case (back is thicker) Off a few days next week so I'm thinking about the individual glare shields that these units have, and the Korry style buttons that the ACM panel has. Just please be aware that if you use these stl files, they are the boxes only and will still need a face. Those are in the Hud light set svg file above. AOA Indexer v2.stl Hud Warning LightsV2.stl

Hello! It has been a while.... I'm still not much further forward with my own building work (side panels for the ejection seat are cut but that's about it!) but I am very much enjoying looking at all your stuff. some absolutely fantastic building going on guys. I'm itching to get sorted out and I've been doing quite a bit of thinking about how I'd do certain things when I got to them. A little while back I built an AOA Indexer that was running on an arduino. it was all cut from acrylic sheet and I don't know why I didn't think of doing it with a 3d printer sooner. Anyway, I got hold of a 3D printer and I've just printed off the Indexer... Pretty happy with it, just needs wiring up. I've also designed the other Hud Warning lights and I'm adding to this post should they come in handy for anyone. The face plate will need to be cut from acrylic or Perspex but the body is much better as a 3d print. The face plate in these pictures was a test and the one in the file is better looking in my opinion, but I was just testing the fit and it seems to work well. I've slightly damaged the side here too trying to rake the support material out rather than going to the garage to get the pointy nose pliers! anyway, hope it comes in handy. **Edit** Holes in the back are set for 3mm LEDS but feel free to modify if needed! HUD Light Set is the Laser cutter files for the front plates. The STLs are the enclosures for the warning lights either side of the glare shield Hud Light Set.svg AOA Indexer.stl Hud Warning Lights.stl Stall lights.stl