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The stickers arrived from "I Say Ding Dong" - a company who specialise in vintage racing car stickers. Ive dealt with them many times rebuilding Classic race / Rally cars and also my racing car simulators as well and what they can di is superb.

 

Parking brake is just a 75A automotive pull switch from ebay but it works well through the LeoBodnar BU0836A board. Great to get something else off of the yoke - as that will soon become redundant as well.

 

So in the meantime from the left I have - Landing Gear, Parking Brake and Flaps. Landing gear and Flaps will be moved to levers on the floor at a later date.

 

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Trim winders for the Aileron and Rudder are next on the agenda Edited by AlyMac
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Unused Brain cells from a recent scan...

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you can see where Im going with this. The red and small orange gear are bonded together - this is the intermediate gear.

 

The winder, small orange gear and spindle will be bonded together. The large orange wheels' spindle turns both the potentiometer and the needle on the face of the Aileron trim indicator. Gearing is 20:1 - which equates to five turns of the winder from the centre point for full left or full right.

 

The black plate is 5mm polypropylene sheet which is an excellent bearing surface. The gears will be sandwiched between two of these.

 

However I need to await my local garage to open so that I can use his pillar drill to get the holes straight :-(

 

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Its been a while due to other commitments but Im now ready for the next part of my journey. The problem is that I like to fly more than I like to build !

Like all the rest of my Flight-deck, Im going in blind so if it doesnt work - I will have to start again. As with the rest of the project there is a little "Poetic Licence" as there are restrictions in my loft, my budget and most of all - my open plan head...

Basically its a 3.5mm ply sheet to go over my two £10 screens which run AirManager for my instruments. Ive also fitted pots to adjust the instruments to rid myself of "Keyboard chores". Not exactly the right shape - but close enough for Government Work :D

 

Not much to show yet but you can see where Im going. Ive traced out the positions of the instruments and to make them fit the small screens - they have all been reduced to 70mm diameter. Enough for me to see without my reading glasses :shock:

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This was just an experimental video. Lots of mistakes when I look through. We'd never do the mag check with both engines at 2300 ! - and I didnt pull the throttles back to 36" after pumps off... Oops

However the interruption from my Number One was just too good to miss :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

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Sorry - I didnt think anybody was following this thread 🙂

 

found these guitar pickup surrounds to make into radios. Just £2.50 off amazon

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Started making a mold for the dC6 yoke. Looked good for a while then.... I'll try again with carbon fiber tows and less hardner 😞

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Air Manager works quite well with led lights working through Arduino-

Oil pressures

Fuel pressures

Generators

Green Gear Down

Amber Gear in transit

Door light - although they say it works with XP11 - doesnt.  Ive tried to write code - but I cant even find the files to enter. Im too old to understand this stuff. If I cant make it work with nuts and bolts then it doesnt work - period !

My radios and navs are at the bottom. Just the guitar pickup frames and two pots, one for high and one for low plus a push on each for ident and test/NAV-Radio2 whatever. More details in 2 or 3 weeks after my euro trip with work. 

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Petrol Problems...

The fuel taps have become a bit of a nightmare. I tried soldering up 10 way switches as there are no 5 way switches I can find with the correct "dwell" with the 5 five position fuel taps on the Dak'. This doesnt really work well as the levers are always out of sync a little.

I bought one of these Oven Grill switches which has a pleasing - quite smooth and positive click-click movement (5 in the right places and a 6th at 6 o'clock) but it operates 6 cam lobes on a shaft which give a mix of on +1, on+2, on + 2 and 1, on + 2 and 4 ... grrr! Cant make it work at all. 

I will  grind off the cam lobes and put slotted aluminium tube rings at the correct 5 positions to close the contacts. Nuts and bolts again 😂

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