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grainny

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  1. devon custard, thanks for your reply. grainny
  2. devon custard, the forum is quiet because the romans are on holiday, once summer turns cold they shall return... to the agora. could you please pm me with a price for a black engraved panel with panel backgounds, exactly as you have in your photo. i have switches to put in and i will finish it off with an electronics box from maplin. however i will have my own not-A10 data for the panel which am happy to send to you. grainny
  3. soup dragon, you may try mapins for electronic parts, but they are not cheap. they have arduino cards which are very popular now. if you want cheaper (but less flexibility) try opencockpits card, it vey tiny but effective and super cheap. as you are in the UK if you want to pay 50p for switches instead of £2.50 then forgo the normal electronic shops and visit a model train enthusiasts fair like they have at alexandra palace in summer. all the items sold are for geeks and nerds so they are well cheap (i bought too much when i went). if you are looking for cheap hand tools, you can also try the what! store. they sell 200 M5 nuts for 90p! B&Q sells 10 M5 nuts for £3.45, so no competition there. take your choice. yours grainny
  4. hi acemark, thank you for answering all my questions with sincerity: you understood and answered question 6 correctly. i did not mean a real ejector seat (i will cry if you mysteriously ejected through the roof of your house, but...that would be super super cool :) ). i totally understand your concern about the cost of sheet metal, i am cheap too. however the bodice of your pit (if you want it to have a long life/re-sale value) ought to be 0.5mm to 2.00mm pitch thick sheet metal, for your information. buyers like to think they are getting value for their money. wood has an obvious finite life span, if you cannot afford steel, then acrylic fabric sheeting is a second option. my whole point being it would be a shame to have to abandon lose all the work and energy you have put into such a beautiful pit after a short while, when a strong infrastructure would have made a world of difference. nevertheless you have built a pit, so be it. now, where did you hide that butt-kicker... grainny
  5. welcome glider, its a relief to see you well again. grainny
  6. hi acemark, i have been looking [shocked] at your fabulous pit pictures and i say simply the best ever eye catching shark. may i ask a few questions? could you tell us a few more details on: 1) the construction of your joystick 2) what colour and shade of paint you used? 3) did you CNC or hand cut your pit parts? 4) why did you choose wood not acrylic or sheet metal for sides 5) do you suffer any joint/arm pains after intensive work? 6) could you build in an ejector seat? 7) what about the rudder pedals? 8) where have you been all my life??? yours grainny
  7. dear devon custard, there is one slighty teensie weensie faulty with packing away your sim pit PC: that is you may never use it again!!! since it is possible to build and improve your shiney baby pit forever, it is also likely that you keep putting off flying until you feel ready... (but we never really feel ready). sooo by the time a new sim game you like turns up and you want to try it out; you unfurl the sim PC, start the engine but... whoa!! its now too old, seriously underpowered, slow, needs new graphics card and more ram. what then? will DC Industries kick in, break open credit purchase agreements and save the day by buying a totally earthquake ginormous scary monster octoquad i9 PC or will devon cowardly cowardly custard-out like a french walrus moustache? yours grainny
  8. nice nifty work there devon custard. it seems you are getting slowly attached to pitbuilding but not flying, that is how this complex (or dweeb, drooly nose, brain lock madness) normally starts, so fly more. is DC Industries up and running again? may one order cnc panel faces or complete boxes for a harrier pit side? cheap? yours grainny
  9. Am very sorry about your loss, glider, my condolences to you... sir.
  10. hard work, very nice pictures. cold we see the backsides as well? are there holes for backlighting in there?
  11. a secondhand hotas cougar is cheaper and needs no drivers.....
  12. dear whartsell, this is a very good thing you are doing for us here. however you need to understand most of us do not electronics engineer be! therefore, could you add basic photos and/or diagrams in step by step (as in the idiots guide to...) that is the only way we will even begin to understand your work let alone use it. most people (just a general statement) have not done this before and are thus experimenting. do not give us too much credibility, we are not as clever as you and we need a lot of help! furthermore, we will not have the same/exact configuration as you do (for example: i dont use helios and i build a harrier pit but i follow your advice anyway). bye for now grainny
  13. i use 3 screens with 2 nvidia cards but not in SLI configuration. getting multiple screens to work is a headache. PC games are not made to run in multi-screen. driver collusion will last forever, parts work well then suddenly stop working, screens seize up, problems no end. if you dont update your card to an eyefinity multiple screen card, you will have bad driver problems forever. a radeon HD 7770 will do six screens natively, so that should satisfy your thirst and give you space for MFDs later on. if you go for SLI/Crossfire, you will spend $$$ dollars without an improvement in quality. if you get TH2Go, then it only gives you three monitors maximum, and its an unnecessary expense right now as you can buy eyefinity with 6-screens-ready. if you have 3 monitors of EXACTLY the same make/model/manufacturer then you can use nvidia surround from an nvidia card that supports 3 monitors, but i have never seen one working and the surround software never kicked in for me, nor nvidia 3D in multiple screen setup. you can also try softTH for win32/win64bit. it works for some but not for me. i tried because its free download.
  14. saitek x65F is better looking. TM Warthog is more practical. i prefer X65F but its useless due to the lack of throw and impossibility to add an extension easily. how can you bank in a warbird without moving the stick? finally your idea that one HOTAS is the best will shock you, there is no perfect HOTAS, they are all money pits and they suddenly develop problems after 7 years use. prepare to spend cash!
  15. welcome back. was panel production on hold? are the panels still in production? pm sent. grainnny
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