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Making your own warthog HOTAS Stick Extensions?


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Here's mine, made from a Cougar stem, a Gardena hose fitting, a copper fitting, and some scrap aluminum. I used breadboard jumpers to bridge the Cougar plug to the Warthog mini-DIN. Between the rear offset and fed pitch, the stick is pretty well mass balanced now.

 

Length -15cm

Rear offset -50mm

Fwd pitch angle - 7deg

 

 

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Hello just wanted to share my EXT I made from PVC not as tall as you want but I post a few pics maybe this would help.

 

I used the Gardina hose kit to screw to the handle and the Base. This is a good find and metal nut are good solid metal and the plastic adapter is pretty strong too. Found it by this poster on SIMHQ

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3269689/1

https://www.amazon.com/Gardena-39035-8-Inch-Garden-Connector/dp/B002VED3KW/ref=sr_1_6?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1438187960&sr=1-6&keywords=gardena+metal+connector

And I use 12' long 3/4in straight piece of PVC cut to right size of coarse.

2x45's

I cut the grey adapter to fit the base of the grip and use the Hose nut to to tie screw to the base..

picture.php?albumid=1169&pictureid=8283

I took a coupler used a file rasp technically for wood and filed a chamfer to one end glued and cut it down so it would create a flange for the hose nut grab.

picture.php?albumid=1169&pictureid=8285

 

Then I took the grey adapter cut one side and dug out the center alittle so it would fit in base of the Grip.

picture.php?albumid=1169&pictureid=8287

 

picture.php?albumid=1169&pictureid=8286

 

Then I Glue it with some clear JB weld for Plastic.

picture.php?albumid=1169&pictureid=8288

 

So personally I don't like this spring solution but it works for now. And there out of the way. But my goal is to figure out a spring loaded damper solution. Like a few joystick I have seen. Or something. ANd I didn't modify the grip or base I can put it back to original' The cord was this thread S-video to 5 pin mod By Metalnwood, Well I added the DuPont connectors to make it easy to reattach cause once I got the grip screw on tight it was a pain to keep unplugging so the middle connector makes it a easy take apart from the base only. Maybe not needed.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=65881&page=4

picture.php?albumid=1169&pictureid=8289


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Hello just wanted to share my EXT I made from PVC not as tall as you want but I post a few pics maybe this would help.

 

I used the Gardina hose kit to screw to the handle and the Base. This is a good find and metal nut are good solid metal and the plastic adapter is pretty strong too. Found it by this poster on SIMHQ

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3269689/1

https://www.amazon.com/Gardena-39035-8-Inch-Garden-Connector/dp/B002VED3KW/ref=sr_1_6?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1438187960&sr=1-6&keywords=gardena+metal+connector

And I use 12' long 3/4in straight piece of PVC cut to right size of coarse.

2x45's

I cut the grey adapter to fit the base of the grip and use the Hose nut to to tie screw to the base..

picture.php?albumid=1169&pictureid=8283

I took a coupler used a file rasp technically for wood and filed a chamfer to one end glued and cut it down so it would create a flange for the hose nut grab.

picture.php?albumid=1169&pictureid=8285

 

Then I took the grey adapter cut one side and dug out the center alittle so it would fit in base of the Grip.

picture.php?albumid=1169&pictureid=8287

 

picture.php?albumid=1169&pictureid=8286

 

Then I Glue it with some clear JB weld for Plastic.

picture.php?albumid=1169&pictureid=8288

 

So personally I don't like this spring solution but it works for now. And there out of the way. But my goal is to figure out a spring loaded damper solution. Like a few joystick I have seen. Or something. ANd I didn't modify the grip or base I can put it back to original' The cord was this thread S-video to 5 pin mod By Metalnwood, Well I added the DuPont connectors to make it easy to reattach cause once I got the grip screw on tight it was a pain to keep unplugging so the middle connector makes it a easy take apart from the base only. Maybe not needed.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=65881&page=4

picture.php?albumid=1169&pictureid=8289

 

Thank you for posting. You answered some questions I had about using the gardena system.

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