| Description for Image 1: This gallery shows my yoke, the control column, and the improved rudder mechanism. And this setup WORKS :-) I have it hooked up to the gameport and I've done some test flights inside flightgear :-) In this first picture the only yoke itself is shown. It is the same yoke as seen in other galleries but now with papermarche (small pieces of paper from newspapers soaked in the stuff that holds wallpaper on the wall). | |
| Description for Image 2: some areas are darker, that's from not yet dry papermarche. Since it takes some hours to dry, it allows you to reshape and change and mess with it until you get it "just" right :) | |
| Description for Image 3: from the side you can see the wiring of the trim-rockers, PTT and the AP disconntect button inside the metal frame that I bent and soldered from a strip of car sheet-metal. | |
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| Description for Image 5: the back side. on the very right side of the picture you can see the PTT button. | |
| Description for Image 6: this is the empty side (for the captains yoke). I didn't have enough metal left, so this one is just U-shaped. The inside was made using a small box of cardboard which I filled up with papermarche. To equalize the weight of the switches,wires and stuff on the left side, I stuck some heavy screws and nuts in the papermarche inside the little box. :-) | |
| Description for Image 7: again the front. I used the plastic tube where photography film-rolls are usually stored in and it cut-down. This is what you see in the center of the yoke where the axis comes through. It helps to keep that area free from papermarche and will later hide the threaded rod and the nuts. | |
| Description for Image 8: AP disconnect button | |
| Description for Image 9: trim rocker switches and PTT button. | |
| Description for Image 10: PTT button (black) | |
| Description for Image 11: back side of rhs of yoke... still being modelled | |
| Description for Image 12: front closeup | |
| Description for Image 13: Overall shot of the control column/rudder board with the yoke mounted. | |
| Description for Image 14: yoke coming along nicely, I think :) | |
| Description for Image 15: rudder pedal mechanism. Improved from version in previous gallery. | |
| Description for Image 16: different angle | |
| Description for Image 17: control column/elevator potentiometer linkage | |
| Description for Image 18: closup of the linkage (pot is on other side of the mouting bracket) with 2 yellow gear wheels | |
| Description for Image 19: back side of linkage with pot visible | |
| Description for Image 20: and closer | |
| Description for Image 21: rudder mech from side. | |
| Description for Image 22: the improved version uses a real square tube aluminum profile. | |
| Description for Image 23: from the front: the L-profile alu links are now held in place with those white rubber bands (see other pics for closeup) | |
| Description for Image 24: temporarily mounted a piece of metal for the pedal | |
| Description for Image 25: here you can see how the L-profiles are held in place: a screw that goes into the hole on the pedal arm, held by a rubber band. this allows some angular movement. Therefore I could not have used a nut. | |
| Description for Image 26: and closer. | |
| Description for Image 27: how the rudder is linked to a pot. | |
| Description for Image 28: the small gear sits on the pot, the big one is the axis of the rudder crossbar. | |
| Description for Image 29: here from the side | |
| Description for Image 30: closer, with the pot and the wires visible. | |
| Description for Image 31: closeup from behind | |
| Description for Image 32: from the top with the big gear visible under the crossbar. | |
| Description for Image 33: looking into the hole: two screws, one for the axis, the other for holding the gear so it will move with the crossbar. | |
| Description for Image 34: overall view from the front | |
| Description for Image 35: closer | |
| Description for Image 36: full throw right | |
| Description for Image 37: full throw right as seen from the side | |
| Description for Image 38: there is some angular movement which the rubber band works wonderfully with. this is still with full throw right. | |
| Description for Image 39: again | |
| Description for Image 40: again from top | |
| Description for Image 41: full throw left | |
| Description for Image 42: full throw right sideview | |
| Description for Image 43: full throw left with the crossbar and the links going to the rudder arms visible in closeup. | |
| Description for Image 44: and from the top with full throw left | |
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