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Thanks DM. Guess I won't be able to sell my first ed. now for $200. ;)

Nice Calum! Very nice!

Fantastic looking Calum!

Incredible! Nicely done!

Nice original setup! It's really neat to see designs that people have made from scratch with only an idea to work off of. Kudos!

Still looking great, Calum! Just for fun, try hitting your engraving plastic with a quick coat of clear matte spray paint. I've found it puts a really nice, professional looking finish on it.

:megalol: John, thank you! You've really made my day! That's the best thing I've read all year! It is nice to know that you're not alone in the world in the way you do things. :smilewink: I always keep my little notes, but I also scan them into Evernote just in case I want to try and look something up and I can't find the note. Their OCR is surprisingly good considering my writing. I would like to ask you a few questions, but don't want to take over the OP.

Nicely done Sven. I must say, I really like how you've organized and documented everything. That's something I'm afraid I need to work on. I'm embarrassed to say that I have more than one panel that has pin layouts on a post-it note, and that was only to make sure I knew where to program what into the sketch! Hans, I'll take you up on your offer if you have a quick drawing or layout drawn! That's the only thing I haven't done yet on this panel. ;)

Great job Hans! Nervous? Never knew a nervous potentiometer! :D When you say nervous, are you talking about the hesitation that the pot is doing during it's movement? That's pretty cool that you got it fixed. Thanks! You figure out, since your working on the light panel, how to use the real one yet? If you have, care to share the what the pinout is? I keep telling myself I'm going to do that one of these days. Yet, well, something else always seems to come up!

Nice work! Oh yeah, PM'd you.

Sounds like 2017 will be a great year for pit builders! Thanks for the update! I hope that everything works out for you.

Nice new toy, Calum!

Thanks Peter, so it's basically just a dowel with the center drilled out?

Speaking of painting, with a rattler or airbrush, anyone know a good way to create a jig for drilling the hole in the knobs for the shaft? Especially for the knobs that don't have a flat top? As an aside, you ought to come to Vermont were there aren't many firearm laws. Personally, I like my little SS 92fs. But my fun go-to is the Mini-14. :D

I do have somewhat of a DIY paint booth. It's basically a table surrounded by very large cardboard walls in a corner that's surrounded by a plastic sheet with an old box fan and furnace filter to direct the fumes out a window. It's neither fancy nor expensive, but it seems to work. Really think it would be worth the complexity and hassle of using a catalyst paint? I was just planning on using basically what I've been using so far. After painting the panel or bracket or whatever little piece I'm working on, I usually coat it a few times with a matte clear coat. Either Krylon Fusion for Plastic Clear or 2X Ultra Cover Matte Clear. For me, it always gives it a "finished" look that really looks surprisingly professional. It's worked so far, and haven't had any trouble with durability. It may be "just a few knobs" at the moment (honestly, more than a "few"!) but I'm quite sure that those aren't the only things I can use it for. It just seems to me that the ability to be precise and accurately place paint where I want it without runs would be worth it. Yeah, it's something that you'd have to actually plan a little in advance and then there's the clean-up, but what can you do? Thanks again for all the suggestions. That 66autocolor.com does look interesting though. Might look into that a little Wayne

Thanks so much you guys. Just confirmed a suspicion that I will need to yet again take my wife out to really nice place to ease the "Babe, I need another expensive tool, no it's really not an absolute necessity but, well yes I realize I have a lot of paint cans but this will make it, I know I just got a big sprayer for paint but that was for big things, this is for - how much so far? Well, I haven't had the heart to add all the receipts, but, yes I do realize it's as much as a car but..." [emoji38] I'm sure we've all had a few of those. :D I don't doubt that it will be worth it in the long haul, and hopefully won't have some of the orange-peel effect I often get with the big cans.

I've been mulling over this one for awhile now. Yes, I've finally started back building after a god-awful year. Months of health issues and hospital stays ad-nauseam, but that's neither here nor there. Now one of the things I've been thinking about is painting. Things like knobs I've yet to do and touching up various other cockpit pieces. Deadman has created a fantastic tutorial on his thread on painting knobs. He uses a rattle-can, which is what I've been using While cruising Warhog's incredible works of art on his thread, I noticed he uses an airbrush. Now my questions. Which is the better solution? I've no experience at all using an airbrush. Would it be advantageous to use one? What kind of paint do you use? Anything special, or just plain any? I know this isn't a terribly exciting thread, but one I was very curious about. With all the incredible builds that are happening, from LynxDK's fantastic new products to Boltz's great new builds. From Warhog's masterpieces (really should be a master engineer of a aerospace company, but that may be a step down,) to all the new build interests, this has spurred me to start up again. So thank you all for the renewed interest! P.S. Almost forgot, without Ian and DCS-Bios, we'd all still be clambering about interfacing, so a huge debt of gratitude goes there!

Again, gotta say Calum, you're really doing a fantastic job! Please keep up the updates, (unlike myself ;),) because they really do help everyone a lot. Thanks for that!

I've said it before on your Flickr page but have no qualms in saying it again. You sir, are a genius! To be curious, what's the stability like on your pedals? And in regards to this and other items in your photo feeds, I truly think you would do more than well if you ever wanted to hang up a shingle! Even as kits. I mean, your instruments alone make me salivate. I only wish I had your knowledge and equipment. But for now I suppose we can all simply look at your many wonderful photos. (And seriously, thank you for making them available to dream over and try in vain to replicate something even remotely similar.) Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Thanks DM. Good hearing from you

Hey Hans, how would you mount that? That's why I never got it from that other website, I just couldn't see how you'd mount it.

You are so correct! As for Ah, don't be silly. You don't have to go overboard! I mean, you could, say, just do the left and right consoles with nothing in them for only $3,200. :noexpression: Or maybe just the engine cluster for a mere $3000. :no_sad: I was actually thinking about the fuel gauge panel at one point. "Oh look! It looks pretty decent and it's only $160.00." Until I realized that was just for the light panel. You want it populated, it goes up to $550.00, and if you want it "plug-and-play" it jumps to $1005.22!! :cry: Over a thousand dollars for one panel?? Um, no. I think I'll wait for Lynx!

Looks fantastic! I'll take one of each side! :)

Looking really good, Lynx! I like the website. Keep up the great work!

Looks like a nice thing for those wanting a genuine A-10 piece. An Aces II pad. https://www.ebay.com/itm/282067190580