SimVionics Takes Flight

[ivar hestnes]

hahaahhaaha, stop stop, I cant take anymore of this.

[jackpilot]

Might be too big...Where should I send it?......

[ivar hestnes]

surface shipping for sure. No one has enough cash to ship that nut via air, hahaah.

[Trevor Hale]

LMFAO..  Nice Phil..  Boy you have a lot of extra time on your hands...  He he he.. shouldn't you be making some gray panels or something?  LMFAO

Hilarious..  and as for Jack.....  I am not going there LOL

[phil744]

Heheheheh brilliant

Right chaps, its 1:49am here in the UK right now, so its 2:49 in holland, thus means our Stef should be sound asleep, i recon that gives me a 6 hour head start running from him lol.

Normally i dont show work in progress pics, but what the hell, this is revision 1 of the aft bay panels for that poor selling little plane that no one has heared off, severn three somthing or other 

For the eagle eye's amongst you you will spot many mistakes, normally take 3 attempts to get things right, if you think panel making is easy trust me your wrong, ive counted 53 errors so far but most of its things u cant see or will never notice,general fitting and alligment issues,artwork skew, laser dwell, will change the ACP panels, those are the BBJ ones and excuse the correct color WX panel in there, ive, erm..okay i admit i forgot about it, but no matter how correct it look's on the screen you go and build a set and things dont work.

But for the first attempt not bad, cant wait to see them all lit up

Enjoy chaps

"hiding"

[XOrionFE]

They still look incredible Phil.    Quick question if you dont mind...

When you cut your panels do you use a ball end bit with 3D profiling to round the edges or do you sand them after the fact?    I made a bunch of Dzus fasteners the other night on my cnc which turned out perfect but had to use a ball end bit to do the rounding and that took more time.    Just wondering how you are achieving those edges....

Thank you,
Scott

[phil744]

Check ur PM bud

[jackpilot]

Oh NO NO NO why do you do that to us Phil
This is a never ending game..

Seriously:very very nice. lots of work...

[phil744]

Oh NO NO NO why do you do that to us Phil

Sorry 

[rhysb]

I dont know! I go back to work for a few weeks and yet again you have re-invented the wheel phil!!!

[Trevor Hale]

This stuff is incredible..  Phil, you have done it again..  I know I hadn;t done anything with my pedestal yet for a reason.

Great stuff.

Trev

[dnoize]

Heheheheh brilliant

Right chaps, its 1:49am here in the UK right now, so its 2:49 in holland, thus means our Stef should be sound asleep, i recon that gives me a 6 hour head start running from him lol.

"hiding"

Hehehehe I gave you a few days to run Phil :-)

Good job on the panels !! They look great !

And i do LOVE the brown radar panel, since you see the colours mixed so often in the real aircraft it just makes it more real ;-)

I have a request though: Do you think you can replicate the pushbuttons/annunciators in the cargo panels ?
I looked for originals everywhere, but i just cant seem to find them :-(

Now.....start looking over your shoulder.....;-)   just kidding....

Stef

[phil744]

Greetings from Ivalongdong NW ullan batoor 

Cheers Stef

Yeah i know what you mean, be honest buttons are my major sticking point on everything, well dual illuminated ones, i have 7 or so candidates, brilliant switches that do the job and almost 1:1 perfect and i can configure them to fit anywhere, the problem is each switch retails for 50-70 USD each!!!!!, if you think that sounds bad look at it from my point of view, to keep lead times reasonable i will have to hold stock, that means purchasing them in multiples of 1000PCS, i will let you do the maths, its not far from being the cost for me to go out and purchase my own tooling and make my own damn switch for half that, and i do have a mould shop, hmmmm, be assured i am working on somthing, it wont happen over night but it will happen soon enough.

These fellas you mean

[dnoize]

Greetings from Ivalongdong NW ullan batoor 

uhmmm where ??

Yeah i know what you mean, be honest buttons are my major sticking point on everything, well dual illuminated ones, i have 7 or so candidates, brilliant switches that do the job and almost 1:1 perfect and i can configure them to fit anywhere, the problem is each switch retails for 50-70 USD each!!!!!, if you think that sounds bad look at it from my point of view,   

Thats not so bad really ;-)

to keep lead times reasonable i will have to hold stock, that means purchasing them in multiples of 1000PCS, i will let you do the maths,

Now that DOES sound bad.

and i do have a mould shop, hmmmm, be assured i am working on somthing, it wont happen over night but it will happen soon enough.

not overnight ?  hmmmm next week is soon enough ;-)

These fellas you mean

Yup, gimme gimme gimme....those are the only parts missing in my pedestal !!!

Stef

[Trevor Hale]

Gimmie Gimmie Never gets Stef...  Santa is watching you, you know LMFAO.

I seem to recall someone needing new start switches that got destroyed at FsWeekend.  Perhaps Santa will bring you a new set LOL.

Trev

[dnoize]

I seem to recall someone needing new start switches that got destroyed at FsWeekend.  Perhaps Santa will bring you a new set LOL.

Trev

LOL....thanks for reminding me Trev, i just forgot about that.....

If i just know who did it (and how he did it).

The brush simply broke off of the body.

The only way i can think of someone doing that is using brute force, turning the switch without pushing it in first. That way you put all the pressure on the body via the switch shaft and all that force ends in the brush where the switch is attatched to the backpanel:





and this is what it should look like:





Ironically i gave away a set of startswitches half year ago to a friend who is helping me with my throttle.


Stef

[Trevor Hale]

The amount of brute force that would be required to break that would be insane..  Was warvet there by chance?  LOL.

I don't know you would think the screw through the knob would have broken loose before that would happen.  I am just amazed.  do you think you will be able to fix it?

Trev

[when acting as a wave]

  That's craziness.

It's amazing how much you need to over-engineer components sometimes, and even then it's often impossible to protect them absolutely. You can go a long way to doing so of course, but it'll then cost a fortune to produce 

Oh, and I've mentioned this in a previous thread, but this is some beautiful panel work. Seriously.

Outstanding.

Dean.

[AceTeam]

Bravo, mate. Amazing stuff.  You truly are a perfectionist !!!

Do you plan on offering ready to plug units once buttons are done? To be honest, Buttons are my sticky points too. Heavy tactile feel, sharp glowing text, no bleed through. I have button fetish. LOL your right, panels are nothing without realistic buttons to along with it.

Honestly, Your panels are sooooooooo real, low grade home made buttons don't belong in them.

These will go perfectly with 757/767 controls we are working on.

Finally, it's time to start building my dream (767 cockpit).

 
All thanks to you. 

Ali -

[Aerosim Solutions]

Phil your panels give me the orn! I can't wait to start making some similar, I am having great success engraving and cutting out parts with the CNC machine but it's all A340 TQ parts at the moment. My first experiment with panels will be the revision of my own B737 MIP, I'm going to replace it!

Happy New Year to everybody from Aerosim Solutions!!!

Regards, Gwyn

[phil744]

Hey Ali,

Simple answer to your question is yes, i am working on some plug and play parts, but im the new kid on the block at all of this so it will take some serious time yet but there is somthing in the pipe line, probably start with a few of the NAV/COMM radios at first before moving onto the complex stuff like MCP/FMC but its a case of walk before i can run, firstly i must figure out some solution to those damn switches, i am pulling my hair out here over them.

Your working on the 75/76 yoke, hmmm will keep that in mind, dont forget the 75 has a different column to the 76, looking forward to seeing that

Cheers Dean

Gwyn, been secretly admiring the A340 TQ over the past few weeks, nice job there also seen the panel you made, personally i think it's spot on if you need any help u know where i am, hopefully im driving to Germany on friday to go and fetch my CNC, been a long time coming, when i do get it i should declare it as a national holiday or somthing i am like a small child on christmas eve, get that back here, set up and figure out how to use the damn thing as ive never seen one before, same with the my Die sink EDM then im going to have a proper go at all this as of now im just playing at the moment.

Well, i know its a bit late, but ive been away, but a very happy new year to you all and let the fun begin

[AceTeam]

Glad to hear Phil. I'm all for plug and play.

Yes, your right about the column difference. That is a huge part to die-cast and I don't see how most builders can afford it.

Ali