Bought dust covers for Hotas Warthog

Hi all,

I just want to share something with you in regards to dust covering of the Hotas Warthog. Sometimes it comes into my mind to do something good for my beloved System to make shure we will have a very long relationship. I did so for my Cougar as well until I finally sold it.

After greasing up the "gimbal" I thought it would be good to save the Warthog against dust as I have permanently installed it at my desk. So I searched the internet for adequate equipment and found the following:

https://hotas-cover.jimdo.com/

As I have an extension of 7cm I asked for it and this was possible without raising the costs. it was 25,- EUR and 12,- EUR for the embroidery which was very cool. The "remove before flight" ribbons also can be ordered there. I already had them from ebay but this is a nice feature. Shipment costs were 8,50 EUR from France to Germany. The communication was nice and I got a high quality product.

The additional item I bought a dustshield I bought here:

http://www.dualsticks.com/dustshields/

This was $5,- incl. shipment and fits nicely. It is slotted to install it without unassembling the stick.

Attached you find pictures (I will turn them correctly later on, I seem to have an issue with my picture program). I simply wanted to let you know and share in case somebody has the same nail in his brain like I have ;) In case of any question feel free to ask.

Take care and have a great weekend.

Xoxen

So nice, such wow!

But please tell us, do they offer custom-tailored covers?

Black color was fine for me so I didn´t ask for options. Here it makes sense to get in contact with the seller at the mentioned website.

Regarding the color of the embroidery I guess you will have the choice. But also here red was fine for me as displayed on his website.

If you are referring to custom shaped covers for your BRD products I´m really not sure if he will do so. Also here you have to request it at the seller.

So nice, such wow!

 

But please tell us, do they offer custom-tailored covers?

According to the website, that would be a yes.

• Study all requests, whatever the type of your controllers
  
• Can choose the fabric (color and material)
  

An unexpensive solution is creating home made ones. I made ones myself. They're simply squared bags made of cloth:

These are the measures:

- Joystick: 33.5cm x 19.5cm

- Throttle: 40cm x 28cm

Both have a rope at the end so you can tighten it around the base of the joy/throttle to avoid dust entering in.

Hope this will help :pilotfly:

Regards

When you say “inexpensive”, what do you figure they cost you?

Thanks,