RomeoKilo's Pit

Congratulations the pit, displays and switches all working are stunning great job!!!

Awesome cockpit... that was my intent to have mine look like that in the beginning before RLife took over!

 

Congrats, looks just like the military version!

Stunning, hope you enjoy flying it now!

This is amazing work mate, best I've seen!

Wow....just wow. Have you thought about stereo projection? The added depth perception could really help. I thought the guy that used to sell the projector based sim said he was using 3D projection.

Amazing

RK, I just saw your youtube vid on how you made the fuel panel. I have two questions.

 

 

The acrylic that you used, I'm guessing it's Plexiglass and not Lexan/Polycarbonate? I heard Lexan/Poly tends to melt with laser.

 

And the opaque/diffuser that you used. Is it just the angle that makes it look so different in the two different times of the video below? The link will take you to the exact spot where the diffuser is shown.

 

And with your 40W laser, you were able to cut it in one pass? I'm looking at a 7W for my Shapeoko from JTech. I don't mind if it takes more than one pass, but I'm worried that it may not be as clean. I'll play with acrylic friendly end mills as well.

 

 

 

 

RK, I just saw your youtube vid on how you made the fuel panel. I have two questions.

 

 

The acrylic that you used, I'm guessing it's Plexiglass and not Lexan/Polycarbonate? I heard Lexan/Poly tends to melt with laser.

 

And the opaque/diffuser that you used. Is it just the angle that makes it look so different in the two different times of the video below? The link will take you to the exact spot where the diffuser is shown.

 

And with your 40W laser, you were able to cut it in one pass? I'm looking at a 7W for my Shapeoko from JTech. I don't mind if it takes more than one pass, but I'm worried that it may not be as clean. I'll play with acrylic friendly end mills as well.

 

 

 

 

The sheet I use is cast acrylic. It can be sold under the brand name Plexiglass, but be careful because some stores will sell any type of plastic sheeting as 'Plexiglass.'

 

Ive bought sheets of that from a local hardware store with good results, then bought the same thing another time and found that it's actually Lexan Poly.

 

And yes, I can confirm that does melt/ignite in the Laser!

 

Make sure you are buying it from a seller that knows the difference, and that you are buying cast acrylic. Plenty of them online and on eBay.

 

The diffuser was the same part in that video, must of been the angle or that I had removed its protective sheet at some point.

 

And the 40 watt laser will absolutely do it in one pass. I don't need to set it higher than 40% power for 3mm acrylic, at 12mm per second. Hot knife through butter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What type of laser is it? I see some Chinese 40w ones on eBay for $500aud?

RK mentioned in his video description: I've upgraded mine using a upgrade pack from http://www.lightobject.com, as well as a 60 watt tube.

 

In the vid, he said that he upgraded the DSPs as well from lightobject.com. though he didn't say which upgrade pack it was.

 

 

RK,

Thank you very much. I've been buying from eplastics.com and I'm sure they will keep me honest. Maybe I'll start sourcing it locally if I do get a laser for my Shapeoke3/Jtech. But I have a bunch of Lexan that I can test with (cnc routing) for now. Thanks again. Also, I didn't see much detail about the landing gear design. If you have the details handy could you post it? If not, no worries. Thanks again.

Ahh yeah that's right, I forgot mines actually running a 60 watt tube!

 

The 40 watt tube I had from the machine originally did the cuts in one pass, although at higher power and lower speeds.

 

 

I'll have a look for my landing gear panel files, although the mechanism itself was hand made of aluminium stock on the fly, so no plans for that one but it's very simple. I'll find and post some pics.

 

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Outstanding work sir. Very nice clean build. I can only pray that mine gets as clean but don't think it will. It must be absolutely awesome to set in it what that view. Well done sir.

 

Cheers

Hans

Absolutely fantastic, what an inspiration, and thank you for sharing!

Wonderful!

A couple more videos up on Youtube

 

 

 

And I'm putting together one on the MIP and the Seat right now as well.

 

Cheers!

Edited April 15, 2019 by romeokilo

These videos are top notch, thanks for sharing

 

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Nice video the console look great

This truely is an amazing build, the information, and videos are also very inspiring (my wallet is not my friend after watching the screen build stuff)

 

 

have you thought about adding transducer subs to the pit at all? not sure if it adds anything to flight sim, but it transformed my race rig set up.

 

 

keep up the amazing work, waiting for whats next :)

Hey RK, can you repost your button pics? They are all showing as missing and Photobucket doesn't have them any longer. Thanks!

 

I found the buttons were actually one of the easiest parts to make once I decided to make them as simply as possible.

I believe there is a chrome extension to view photobucket pictures.

I completely deleted my photo bucket account a while back, after their whole payment fiasco.

 

I will try to find the pics and see if I can get them back in here.

 

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Dear romeokilo, I really like your cockpit! It looks great.

Please specify (direct link if it possible) what kind of display you used in CMSP panel (I2C OLED) and CDU.

This project now has its own INSTAGRAM account

 

Follow @thewarthogproject

 

I post photos there in real time as the build progresses!

 

 

Thanks for updating the pics!! Awesome!

 

This is my (6th...) prototype Landing Gear Panel and Handle. It has come a long way since the hand drilled acrylic, ink jet printouts and a castor wheel in the first thread!

 

Handle before gluing. Still working on where to position the LEDs for best lighting.

This one is based on a Gadroc's measurements, but because my AHCP will be lifted out of the MIP by 18mm (to clear the monitor) I'll probably have to do one with less of a bend.

 

 

Would you happen to have the gear handle dimensions from Gadroc's doc handy? The link is broken and Gadroc's site is throwing PHP errors. I've modeled it in F360 and plan to 3D print a prototype (unless I can find 10mm aluminum stock locally) but have no idea what the actual dimensions should be. Thanks!

the videos appear to be broken?

the videos appear to be broken?

 

These ones?

 

 

 

Edited June 22, 2019 by sharkfin61