How can I mount collective to Office chair?

[Cowboy10uk]

Hi guys, I'm after some advice, I'm lucky enough to have a Komodo Simulations UH1 collective, and currently I have it bolted to a wire drawer alongside my chair. To be honest this solution is pretty pants, the drawer bends and the collective catches on the end of the drawer, meaning small control inputs are pretty much impossible as the collective base can move a bit with the drawer.

 

Has anyone got any Ideas what the best way to mount this will be, so it won't move while I'm operating it, either by attaching it to my office chair or having it sat on the floor?

 

Any ideas would be great fully received.

 

It's a stunning collective, which my current mounting solution just isn't really suitable and fails to do it the justice it deserves.

 

Cowboy10uk

[mr_mojo97]

You should easily be able to make a box (like a kitchen drawer but wider) out of 12mm mdf stand it in end then screw your collective on it. If you don't want to screw the box to the floor you could always put a breeze block in it. That'll be heavy enough so the collective won't move. A bit crude but it'll be fine. Otherwise depends on the fitting of the collective and the style of the office chair would depend on how it could be attached. Or another idea, I bougt a couple of black £5 square ikea tables - about 18"" square. And screwed all my a-10c panels to them (one ever side). The perfect height for my office chair and they're easy to move too

Edited February 10, 2016 by mr_mojo97

[j0nx]

I mounted a 8x15" piece of plywood to the bottom of my swivel chair with 6 screws to mount my OE-XAM collective. Works great for me until I pickup the Volairsim cockpit that was willed to me. And congrats on that collective. I'm jealous! My Bell 206 replica rocks too though but Komodo is in a league of its own.

Edited February 11, 2016 by j0nx

[hansangb]

I'm going to be in a same boat as soon as Rich ships my collective and cyclic. Not sure how I'm going to put it all together - along with TM Warthog.

 

I'm leaning towards modifying the foldable Stand like this one

[frogger]

i had a design for this years ago when i used to switch between flying helicopters and fixed wing. but it was dependant on the chair used.

 

the chair my design ran off was like this one

 

it has 2 bolts in the vertical section of the arm rest and 2 in the lower horizontal and it holds the seat and backrest together 1 either side.

 

removing the arm rest gives u 4 mounting points. so my idea was like this

 

 

and cut away box.

 

not shown in the model i had more bits of wood above the collective either side to form a shelf that a flat bit of wood could slide into with the hotas throttle mounted to it. i used a box on the other side for the throttle but never got around to mounting it.

[Cowboy10uk]

Thanks for all the replys guys, Frogger, I especially love your idea, that seat is pretty much identical to the one I'm using. May take a few weeks, but I think removing the left hand armrest and changing it to a mount like that would be the best idea.

 

Many thanks again.

 

Cowboy10uk

[BigBANGtheory]

If you have an old office chair (like me) and don't mind some experimenting you can modify it quite a bit. For example the leather material is usually stretched over a foam cushion on a ply wood base, so if you un-tac the leather you can hacksaw into the foam/base and then reattach the leather. This will give you a cutout for a pedestal mounted joystick or some other solution.

 

You might be thinking "but if I remove a central cut-out on the base won't the chair be unconformable for normal use?" Honestly its not a problem even with your legs together there is enough support either side of the cut out.

 

What surprises me is that non of these gaming chairs offer this cut out option which would be the n0.1 reason for me buying a gaming chair vs. any other office chair at half the price.