Home-Made Rudder Pedals

[RightF00T]

My rudder setup(revel at the artwork) and ingenuity:

1. 2 Wooden Boards suitable to be held up by fishing wire-Your feet will be on these...be creative and think of comfort.

2. Raider Pro K-mart brand Joystick(14.99) with suction cups. Attached to #3 and held up by #4.

3. Plastic sheet along with a base oil..suction cups should stay attached for a long while.

4. Screws/Nails Drilled into the Wall- support the joystick onto the wall(Tight Fit to prevent slippage)

5. Fishing wire or any wire suitable to be your "cables".

6. Fish-eye screws(correct word?) string fishing wire through these and nail/screw into computer desk.

Good luck and results may vary. This design is open for improvising.

[Furious]

Pretty damn clever.

....and yeah that drawing sucks.  


F.

[RightF00T]

LOL you should see the real thing.

[RightF00T]

VOR...finally found the time to do this....the above is first design...the new design which works much better is below.

[RightF00T]

Will post the details later .  For some reason my Nikon pictures have converted to cartoon format?

[Pfunk]

That is the ultimate in being a cheap ass, go and spend $50 for some Thrustmaster RCS's

[Sancho]

the scary thing is lefty can actually fly well and get kills with this setup.  if you can get or borrow a digital camera I'd love to see the real thing.

I guess if I did something like that I'd put some bungee cables on the pedals to make more resistance when you push down on the opposite side.  markAT had beefed up his thrustmaster pedals that way.  I've been thinking about modding my CH pedals with stiffer springs or bungees to give them about 1.5x the current resistance.

[RightF00T]

Originally posted by Pfunk
That is the ultimate in being a cheap ass, go and spend $50 for some Thrustmaster RCS's

Whats the problem?  Is it that you payed $300 for your l33t motion-sensing, cupholding, seat-warming HOTAS and you're no better at AH; or that I was  put out at most $20 to build my own pedals in which the nostalgia factor rises everytime a kill is achieved?  And to think I had the audacity to post this in the Hardware Forum.

[iceydee]

have you ever opened your CH Pro Pedals? it looks not much different from those drawings inside, just smaller...