Old car part throttle

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Old car part throttle

Postby chuckcrc » Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:55 am

Hi all
here is my idea for a throttle assembly from old car parts.

These pics show a heater/air
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Re: Old car part throttle

Postby AnGeL_MaKeR » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:06 am

Well, an old shade tree mechanic from the 80's like myself remembers those dinosaurs... literally had to use reigns and saddles to drive those beasts!! ;)

That's an awesome idea!!  Never thought about it myself, even after diving into a few dashboards to fix my own problems!  I'll give it a few thoughts...
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Re: Old car part throttle

Postby JBaymore » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:08 pm

chuck,

To quote those beer commercials on US TV:

Brilliant!

best,

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Re: Old car part throttle

Postby beaky » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:31 pm

chuck,

To quote those beer commercials on US TV:

Brilliant!

best,

..john


to quote another US beer commercial:
"Here's to you, Mr. Makes-Flightsim-Throttles -Out -of- Old- Ford Cortina- Parts -Guy..."

"Real men of geeee-niusss..."

Well done. And it gives me an idea...
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Re: Old car part throttle

Postby chuckcrc » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:14 am

I will most likely use this unit to make a "cowl flaps " control lever and a "dive brake " control unit as I already have a throttle assembly.

I will post some pics of the final assembly when I get time to build it.

The movement on the levers is firm which is what you want for a throttle. The cables would have to be trimmed to length but that shouldn't be a problem to do.

I will post some info on a POV Hat switch unit I made which gives me a easy way of moving my "eyepoint " control in CFS3.  

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