Warthog Centre Stick Mod No.2

[JG52Krupi]

Still waiting for the teensy board to arrive so I went ahead and tapped a M6 thread into the spade grip for the brake lever.

This is one area that I was a bit worried about since if the thread was ruined I would only have one or two more goes and then I would have had to buy another grip, luckily my old man was on stand by and had brought backup in the form of some bike oil and the thread tapping went perfectly a small but good accomplishment given that we only had a small vice and a hand drill ...







So far so good, again a bit more filing required, a few holes and countersinks to be drilled and then I will only have the dreaded wiring and programming to do

[JG52Krupi]

Brake lever is now done

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90annRahkjQ&feature=plcp

So this week the Teensy Board arrived and after a small problem I managed to get the buttons working .

So my finial list of "Things to do" are as follows..

1) File down brass bars and check installation of buttons.

2) Solder buttons and the Teensy Board.

3) Epoxy coat the handle to replicate the grip.

4) Paint.

5) Assemble ...

6) Kick ass in a spit... err.. okay, as soon as the FM's are improved

[JG52Krupi]

Small update, I now have all the button wired and have just tried it out in a 109, no cannon spits yet ....

So far so good, landing is now a lot easier in a spit with the brake lever... The brake lever also doubles up as my press to talk button which means its going to be quite hard to cover up my terrible landings...

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

The brake lever also doubles up as my press to talk button which means its going to be quite hard to cover up my terrible landings...

Don't you mean language?

Looking good mate. I'm highly envious of your skills. I was wondering about the dual action gun button, but it makes sense to have it for the future. Who knows, maybe we'll get a MkVB in 'the sequel'?!

[JG52Krupi]

Thanks Dutch..

Very quick bad pic before i go and finish off the spades grip errr,.... grip

[JG52Krupi]

I have a few more bits and pieces to go, I loath working with Brass and thats the final piece of the jigsaw.

I spend about three hours yesterday kneading putty epoxy and wrapping it around the string and then another three after it had dried scoring the putty to give the grip effect...

My attempt



What do you think?

[ATAG_Dutch]

Looks spot on. You're an artist Krupi.

Forgive me for asking this, but doesn't the gun button look a bit big, or is that the perspective of the photo?

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Dutch

Looks spot on. You're an artist Krupi.

Forgive me for asking this, but doesn't the gun button look a bit big, or is that the perspective of the photo?

Its just the perspective mainly, but I think your right it is a little bit too wide.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Not bad at all Krupi, I'd be pleased with that if I were you.

Get that bloody bolt end sawn off!

Whats bad about working with brass? - just cos its hard wearing and not so soft?

[JG52Krupi]

Kind of the opposite brass is soft but hard, so you need quite a sharp file to work it and my old mans are not what you would call in great shape I brought some new files but they are needle files so its taking ages