Throttle Quadrant Progress

[Polmer]

Hello,

I am working on a B767 project, and decided to take a break from working on the MIP. So, I decided to work on the throttle quadrant. Here it is , about 90% completed. I connected in to the Plasma MM2 12 bit joystick card from Beta innovations, and got it calibrated and working in no time.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii3/Polmer/TQ1.jpg

For inspiration, I used real photos, and measurements and also relied heavily on the photos posted by Ivo De Colfmaker, found here;

http://users.pandora.be/dci/index.html

The annunciators are made from small lego pieces ( this was discussed in an ealier thread), and the flaps are spring loaded for a nice feel.



http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii3/Polmer/fall07007.jpg



Next stop..........MCP



~Polmer

[Bob Reed]

These look GREAT! Can not wait to see the MCP!!

[Michael Carter]

That looks very nice. Very realistic.

[MLeavy737]

Wow! Thats awesome, looks like you spent some good time on that one.. its shows.

Mike Leavy
www.737BBJ2sim.com

[ivar hestnes]

Very nice work:)

[Joe Cygan]

Come on, you yanked that out of a 767!

Very nice stuff.

[Polmer]

"Come on, you yanked that out of a 767!"

Ha ha.....I wish I had access to a real 767 so I could yank one out!

Thanks for the kind words guys,




Polmer

[phil744]

That is some serious nice work that, well done!

[Trevor Hale]

Fantastic workmanship. Great job. Thanks for sharing.

I hear Boeing is calling you to build TQ's for them.

Trev

[Matt Olieman]

WOW, beautiful workmanship.... VERY NICE, Polmer!!!!!!!

[PascalHaldenstein]

Wow very impressive work. Seems like you know what you're doing:D
No really, that's awesome man!!

[warvet]

Polmer,
Anyway you can show some pics on how you buit this unit? It truly is very good craftsmanship.

Tim
A340
Canada

[Polmer]

"Anyway you can show some pics on how you built this unit?

Tim"

Tim,

I relied heavily on these two web sites for construction ideas and measurements. Please take a look;

http://www.simpit.de/b767dim/pedestal/page_01.htm

For construction;
http://users.pandora.be/dci/build.html



He also as a tutorial at his site as well which helps explain much of the process.

For much of the shell covering, I used 1/4 inch Sintra board, which is a type of foamed plastic. I found that by laying the sintra board on a pizza stone in a warm oven for about 3 mins, that I able to bend, curve it quite easily(just make sure your wife doesn't catch you!). I used this idea to get the large curved piece on the from shell of the throttle quadrant.

I bought mine from here;

http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=USPlastic&category%5Fname=115&product%5Fid=10432

~Polmer