GeneralDynamics Posted April 7, 2024 Posted April 7, 2024 (edited) Well, this is my upgrade from plywood, popsicle sticks and chewing gum - it's nothing NEAR what some of you guys are able to accomplish, but it's definitely a major upgrade for me. Took me a while to build it and it turned out pretty clean so I thought I'd share... This started out as a Trak Racer racing frame, and I adapted it to be used for DCS flight simulation with the WinWing MIP, Thrustmaster Warthog throttle and FA-18C stick, Crosswind combat pedals, Virpil stick base and button panels, a miscellaneous X-Keys button panel I had and an Earthquake Sound shaker unit. The frame is high enough that my eye position is level with the center of the 55 inch LG OLED, and the casters allow me to simply unplug everything and roll the entire unit off to the side when I'm using the PC and display for gaming or other things. I roll it right up to the desk when in use. Please forgive the mess, still cleaning up... I purchased a metal cable raceway and that really kept things neat and tidy, except for the birds nest where I plugged all the USBs into the powered hubs. I'll go back and clean that up later... I made the USB labels out of plain printed paper and scotch tape - worked surprisingly well. I have a good friend who is a retired machinist, and he made the pedal plate for me per my drawings with six inches of pedal adjustment in one inch increments. Here you can also see a front view of the cable raceway. I pretty much ditched the mounting instructions for the MIP panel and used heavy duty gussets to mount the MIP and stick base. It's really solid, no flex or movement whatsoever. You can see the Earthquake shaker mounted to the frame at the rear. Found this metal power strip that was easy to mount to the profile for powering the USB hubs and whatever else I might need later. Final result - still working on choosing what all I want to map to the button panels, but it's flyable now! This will work in the interim until I can fulfill my dream of building a full sim pit after I retire - that's definitely a bucket list item! Thanks for having a look! Edited April 7, 2024 by GeneralDynamics Typo 3 System Specs: Win 10 x64 Pro, ASUS Maximus X Formula, i9-9900K @ 4.7 GHz, 32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 3200 MHz, NZXT Kraken X73 AIO Cooler, Titan X Pascal GPU, EVGA Supernova 1000W P2 PSU, C: 1TB Samsung 960 Pro m.2 PCIe SSD, D: 1TB Samsung 850 Pro SATA SSD, HT Omega Claro PCIe 7.1 Sound, Denon AVR-1709 7.1 Receiver, 46" Sharp Aquos Quattron Main Screen, 27" Acer T272HL TouchScreen + Helios, TrackIR 5, ThrustMaster HOTAS Warthog, Crosswinds pedals, SimShaker
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