Home-built 4-engine throttle quadrant

**rcbarend** · 02-18-2002, 07:45 PM

If you need any ideas on howto build a throttle quadrant, look at these pictures.
It is build with K'NEX (a plastic construction material), 4 100 Kohm potmeters and 3 switches.
It has reverse-thrust (with block) on the throttles itself (bottom quarter of the throttle range), which requires FSUIPC of Peter Dowson.
I connect them to a USB port, using a Gameport-to-USB convertor which installs it under windows as a 4-axis - 4-button controller.

http://home.planet.nl/~rcbarend/exte...ottles1-sm.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~rcbarend/exte...ottles2-sm.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~rcbarend/exte...ottles3-sm.jpg

Cheers, Rob

**xerus** · 02-18-2002, 10:03 PM

I built a throttle, mixture and prop out of Erector Set stuff and was using it for about 6 or 7 months. I'm building a new setup now and I keep looking at the Erector set stuff thinking I should use it again. I like the gears, I think I'll rumage though my kids Lego for some gears.

Jon

qazia · 02-19-2002, 08:39 AM

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Feb-19-02 AT 08:42AM (EDT)[/font][p]Nice setup. I am building one too. The harderst
part is to find the appropriate gears. Are the
K'NEX gears sold separately of do you have to buy a
hole bunch of parts that you may not need.

**rcbarend** · 02-19-2002, 09:49 AM

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Feb-19-02 AT 10:07AM (EDT)[/font][p]I just had a tip from a guy in the UK, for a UK company that sells the wheels individually.

ARBON & WATTS
Tel: 0870 129090
They charge 50p for each wheel part numbers 90985 and 90988.
Postage is �3-50
They will take orders by telephone

And for USA&Canada, You can order them at:
http://orders.knex.com/cgi-bin/forsale/index

at www.knex.com

Rob

Captain_Slarty · 02-20-2002, 01:45 PM

Absolutely excellent Rob. !

please keep posting this kind of original work.

nice one dude !

Joe - Captain Slarty.

http://www.captainslarty.com/images/737/slarty2.jpg

**rcbarend** · 02-20-2002, 06:29 PM

He Joe,

I guess, after building my pedals and these throttles, I think I will stop building for a while, and start enjoying FS2002. Publishing these kind of things is very rewarding (I really get swamped with EMails for support), but I hardly find the time to fly myself; moreover, my son started complaining I'm using up all his K'NEX :-)

Cheers, Rob

**HVB** · 02-24-2002, 06:57 PM

OK, what about this: It is supposed to be a flight console, like a cockpit. Its made out of some wood and an old keyboard. I have put the monitor on top of it, so its a bit nicer. I plan to make another one for the overhead panel.

http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...9265097e1e.jpg

http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...e86709a84c.jpg

http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...4b1424a9a6.jpg