Its Mine!!!! My preascious!!!! (Lotr)
I cant belive i got it!!! Been looking for years!!!
- lower price due to cut bay! Excellent
- The most important peace in a simulator!
- knowing that this has been in a real aircraft!!!
- know you get exactly the right feel and look!
- building fun!!!!! Plan to take st least a year to complete
- most replicas i have seen is more expensive than my peace.
Happy for you !
Some guys here went through the process , as you know, and will help you for sure to speed up the learning curve!
Cheers
Jack
;)
Thanks!
Lucky for me there are tons of smart people in this forum that are friendly and maybe can help with some directions. First thing will be to localize the switch cables. Have to read up on how to track what cable does what? Hehe
Couldn't agree with you more. I felt exactly the same about my 757 TQ, which due to it being less popular in the sim community in terms of numbers means that you basically HAVE to buy a real one since there aren't replica options. But that's fine, replicas CANNOT touch the real thing, and like you, I got mine for an unbelievable price.
Have fun, restoring them is a BLAST! Lots of work, but really, really cool work.
Matt
Cool, where did you get your 757 throttle? Ebay?
your sim looks awsome.
I am also glad for the throttle, because its the hardest part to find. My mip and overhead and pedistal will be ordered from simworld. Mcp and efis 99% done. The yokes i will also invest in real oem and convert, but probably not this year.
Congratulations, yokes unless you get another bargain... you will not pass.
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Quote from: matta757 on March 21, 2016, 01:15:28 PM
Couldn't agree with you more. I felt exactly the same about my 757 TQ, which due to it being less popular in the sim community in terms of numbers means that you basically HAVE to buy a real one since there aren't replica options....
Not quite:
http://www.throttletek.com/g-b767-replica-1.html (http://www.throttletek.com/g-b767-replica-1.html)
Quote from: Ridgenj on March 21, 2016, 02:35:02 PM
Congratulations, yokes unless you get a other bargain...
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Thanks, and thanks for posting the link! :)
Peter...
Congratulations on your find!
I found that the TQ conversion I did was the most rewarding and enjoyable aspect of my cockpit build. It definitely adds to the realism (I had a replica prior)!
Happy to address any questions you may have.
Fred K
Quote from: KyleH on March 21, 2016, 03:22:04 PM
Quote from: matta757 on March 21, 2016, 01:15:28 PM
Couldn't agree with you more. I felt exactly the same about my 757 TQ, which due to it being less popular in the sim community in terms of numbers means that you basically HAVE to buy a real one since there aren't replica options....
Not quite:
http://www.throttletek.com/g-b767-replica-1.html (http://www.throttletek.com/g-b767-replica-1.html)
I've seen that before, it looks decent but nothing compares to the real thing. And I got mine for less than half of what the replica costs. That was my point really, that the real thing is well worth it in terms of ruggedness and realistic feel.
Matt
Quote from: kurt-olsson on March 21, 2016, 01:40:32 PM
Cool, where did you get your 757 throttle? Ebay?
your sim looks awsome.
I am also glad for the throttle, because its the hardest part to find. My mip and overhead and pedistal will be ordered from simworld. Mcp and efis 99% done. The yokes i will also invest in real oem and convert, but probably not this year.
Yep, got the TQ on eBay along with most of my real parts. Gotta be willing to wait for a bargain to come along. Yokes are the next most important, and I went from an ACE replica yoke (very nice, heavy duty construction) to a pair of dual-linked real 757 yokes and again, the real parts are just so much better than even the best replicas.
Matt
Congratulations.
From what I have seen from other conversions it is a lot of fun work, however,
I have seen just one video of one in action after the TQ was completely installed in the sim, it showed quite a bit of "hunting", perhaps software related. I personally was a "chicken" when it came to getting one and convert it myself :). I admit it, I took the easy way out and got one replica from the market. I wonder if any of you have videos of your conversion "in action".
Again, congrats.
JF
PS: I will post mine in the section "Show your Sim"( not sure if that is the real name of the thread, but you follow my drift ) that was created a few days back, as not to hijack this one.
Here are the yokes.
[ebay]172139774722[/ebay]
Quote from: FredK on March 22, 2016, 05:23:23 AM
Peter...
Congratulations on your find!
I found that the TQ conversion I did was the most rewarding and enjoyable aspect of my cockpit build. It definitely adds to the realism (I had a replica prior)!
Happy to address any questions you may have.
Fred K
Thanks, i am pretty new to this forum, but you must be "The Fred" they talk about in the youtube conversion videos from scott and pilotdreams.
Will gladly take any tip or help. When the progress starts i may send you pm if i have some questions.
Quote from: fsaviator on March 22, 2016, 02:58:56 PM
Here are the yokes.
[ebay]172139774722[/ebay]
Ahhh dude!!! Dont do this to me! I have to save up some money after my tq purchase. Those are exactly what i want and looks like extremely good price! If i had the money they would be on its way to sweden now! :)
Update!
The throttle is at my home! It took two days for deliver from USA-Sweden, two days!!!! incredible!
Swiss-sim 5/5 for package and deliverance.
Have not opened yet to check condition, but should be no problem.
Congrats! I'd say IMHO the CDU is the most important piece.
Mitch
Quote from: 757Simulator on March 24, 2016, 08:56:14 PM
Congrats! I'd say IMHO the CDU is the most important piece.
Mitch
Thanks for input. Not seen many cdu-panels though. I dont want to interface an oem cdu, think thats almost impossible.
Actually it is very impossible. Matt Ford & James Price both have done it.
Quote from: 757Simulator on March 25, 2016, 08:10:10 PM
Actually it is very impossible. Matt Ford & James Price both have done it.
Yeah, but they are legends and pioneers within this hobby, i am just a regular dude! Haha
Congrats for the nice real piece !