Simviation Forum - Towerguys baron project part 15

Apr 19^th, 2010 at 6:10am

Towerguy Offline
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making the circuit panel body
cutting out the main parts

first attempt I tried metal fittings but wasn't getting the result I wanted

so it was back to wood

all drilled out and round filed from the inside out

a test fitting

first bit of paint

gradually coming together

a couple of shots of the first build

undercoating

top coating

installed - lower left of photo

there will be lots more to this as none of it is even made up for wiring yet - I hope to connect it all as a keyboard replacement - well thats the idea anyway.

cheers till next time

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Reply #1 - Apr 19^th, 2010 at 9:40am

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So you are going to use this pit for type-training in a commercial setting, right? Shocked

best,

................john

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Reply #2 - Apr 19^th, 2010 at 8:51pm

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if only !!

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Reply #3 - Apr 19^th, 2010 at 11:13pm

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Towerguy,

I can imagine how this is going to turn out at the end, of course if there is an end to cockpit building. Your work looks neat and it has a feel of professional touch. All your recent four posts revel that.

Talking of scavenging isn't that how we combat money. I have used two unexpected things when I made my over head panel. A white plastic cutting board and an old vinyl record whose songs I didn't care for.

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Reply #4 - Apr 20^th, 2010 at 1:59am

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yes I have been eyeing up the plastic cutting boards in the local $2 shop, possibly to use when I redo the undercarriage workings ... but I hadn't thought about the big box of old vinyl records under the stairs!
well done that man!

I have spent the last week on the end of the soldering iron just putting together the digits for the radios etc and have now got a sore back and my eyes are going cross eyed!
and the amount of time I,ve spent just looking through stationary stores looking at plastic and labels and whatever I can possibly print the face plates on - I am trying a variation on Johns method. I did find out that you cannot use an inkjet to print onto plastic card - it just doesn't dry and smudges badly Sad

but the local print shop suggested I try some transparent overhead projector sheets. so I bought some and have to give it a go now.
cheers

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Reply #5 - Apr 20^th, 2010 at 10:32am

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Towerguy wrote on Apr 20^th, 2010 at 1:59am:

- I am trying a variation on Johns method. I did find out that you cannot use an inkjet to print onto plastic card - it just doesn't dry and smudges badly Sad

but the local print shop suggested I try some transparent overhead projector sheets. so I bought some and have to give it a go now.

Oops.. I thought I mentioned using a laser printer in my postings. Sorry if I didn't.

For some totally fake "enhance the immersion" gauge faces I use transparancy "paper" in the inkjet to make a colored dial face (that does not move). They go in the gauge facing with a sheet of translucent paper behiond it to diffuse the led light.

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Reply #6 - Apr 20^th, 2010 at 6:04pm

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thanks, I'll have another read through
cheers

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Reply #7 - May 5^th, 2010 at 6:07pm

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JBaymore wrote on Apr 19^th, 2010 at 9:40am:

So you are going to use this pit for type-training in a commercial setting, right? Shocked

best,

................john

No, I think he's gonna wheel it out of the garage, crank the engine and fly off to the sound of the astonished mob below (that would be us Wink

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That's looking awesome!! Shocked

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