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Holy shit these things are stupendous. Like incredible. Sooo much control, I've just been flying a ka50 in a circle strafe around a train traveling 90kmh, 10m off the ground. Old rudder pedals would never allow such shenanigans. Sensitive enough that I can transition the gun pipper on the A10C sideways by 5m on a target 1.5 miles away yet at full deflection it puts so much rudder input into the plane, it flips over on it's back at will. Even better they're silent and completely stiction free

Sensor clamp and magnet bracket made up, magnet is one salvaged from an old HDD. Turns out that the original intended magnets weren't really big or strong enough and weren't giving great results over the full range of motion; new one is much stronger and large enough for the sensor to not pass over it's boundary. Made a small angle bracket to glue the magnet to and clamped the sensor behind an offcut of aluminium flat, cut a slot into the back of the clamp plate to keep the sensor and wires all contained and aligned. Also got a couple of videos to show the operation: - Half spring tension https://photos.app.goo.gl/bXWBLPt8H5n9UBKR6 Full spring tension https://photos.app.goo.gl/Mjg6RuouGbyBTatHA Spring tension released for helos https://photos.app.goo.gl/623PBkMJt7moS9JE8

That's a bit crap, I'll reattach then when I'm back on the computer, currently toddler cuddling on the sofa edit: reattached photos above, I've made the minor tweaks to the cam link plate that lets me recentre the cam much better and repositioned the lower end of the damper struts so that they don't limit the stroke now. Hopefully at the weekend I'll be able to get the main cross beam sensor and magnet fitted, get them bolted onto my desk and go fly with them. I'll add the toe brakes when I've got the bits.

Did some making A couple of bits to tweak but for a first dry run it's not gone together too badly. Got to wait for the laser cut toebrake parts so I can tweak the mechanism till then. Spring preload works really nicely with the dampers, with it wound to almost zero preload they stick in one position, wind the preload on an inch and they smoothly return to centre without a noise

Because my flight sim rudder pedals are now close to 20 years old and getting rather clunky and stiff I figured I would make a new set to fit within the physical constraints of my nerd cupboard. Ideally I would have a set of thrustmaster TPR rudders but the 400 quid outlay isn't possible and the central support design prevents access to my sim racing pedals. I've approached the design based upon the mechanism of the TPR but with outboard supports rather than inboard. I've decided to use a cam driven centering spring which has adjustable preload and can be backed off entirely in order to make the pedals better suited for helicopter usage (antitorque pedals in helicopters don't self centre like plane rudder pedals do). In addition to the main rudder axis (one pedal forwards one pedal backwards) there are left and right toebrakes that are applied by rolling your foot forwards. All three axes will be positionally read by hall sensors (magnetic sensitive sensors essentially) and rare earth magnets. The toe brakes will have miniature has struts on them for spring return and damping. I'll be using another couple of struts set at mid stroke to damp the motion of the main pedal arms. edit: added a second pair of gas struts to act as a damper for the main pedals. For plane use, engage the centering spring by winding up the preload collar on the pull rod, for helicopter use release the preload entirely and the dampers should hold it in a set position as per real life. Also found a clevis under my work desk that has been there for the last 10 years or so, makes the pull rod much simpler to construct.

Starter motor replaced, 25 quid from eBay and 90 minutes faffing and she starts again

Van is needing a new ECU, in addition to clocks, immobiliser, keybox, steering lock and key..... Hopefully we might get it back this week. Bonus is that the replacement ECU is from a 313 so the power will be going up to 130 from the palty 100 which frankly struggled with a 2.9t van. Saves the cost of getting it remapped and it's obviously going to be a certified good mercedes tune In other news, the starter motor on the smax appears to have gone up the swanny now so we're currently without vehicles all together

Sort of in the same vein... What if I want a wide range 9 speed? Also how rigid are the maximum cassette sizes dictated by the mech? I currently have an xt m786 10 speed running 32t on a 9 speed 11-34 cassette, driven by a 9 speed SRAM x5 shifter (1/4" thick spacer under the cable clamp on the mech to correct the actuation ratio). When my current chain/cassette dies then I'm planning on putting a larger cassette and chainring on to improve both high and low gear ratios. The mech is rated for 36t maximum low sprocket, if it possible to easily increase this?

So basically apple f**king you over because of a proprietary API demanding specific hardware

Well that sucks that you can't just use any GPU I had the option to buy an RX580 when I bought my GTX1070 three years ago, was about 175 quid back then but I went with the 1070 at the slightly more expensive 200 quid because it was faster. Sold the 1070 for 300 quid last november and bought the RTX3070 for 469.

Why would you buy a massively overpriced GPU from eBay?

There's always one! Perhaps I should have added the caveat about necro bumps by spambots

I wonder what the record is for the oldest necropost on here? edit: who deleted the spambot necro!

Anyone got any recommendations for repairing ECUs? Looks like the one on our sprinter has failed

Elbows above the desk helps a lot as well, I've got a yoyodesk at work and it's really good for the back and posture. About 12 years ago I thought I had RSI/carpal tunnel because my thumb had gone numb and I'd lost the strength to click mouse buttons with my fingers, tried all the wrist rests and adjustments you can think of to no avail. Got a physio appointment and they gave me some exercises which also did nothing. Got given a back massage by my (then) girlfriends aunt and she asked how long it had been since I had dislocated my shoulder? I wasn't aware I had dislocated my shoulder but I had fallen backwards on a straight arm and jarred it, I had probably sublaxed it and then popped it back in; this was a couple of months previous. She popped a few lumps below the shoulder blade and my hand strength returned within days. Might be someting to consider, hand issues can often be caused by nerves affected in the shoulder

I thought TF was on an 8 year timeline regression

I'm with zen as well, 49 a month for 160mbit with no bandwidth caps or silly contention. It's rock solid

Yeah, Persie fangirled quite a bit as well, but then they played and rode together for 3 hours and shared unicorn birthday cake in the van postride and all was well

I don't use cordless but I do still use the Bosch pistol drill that my dad got me for my 15th birthday, similarly I also have a 20+ year old Makita pistol drill (inherited off my dad). I had a Ryobi jigsaw and it was ok, but then I picked up a Bosch pro one (again inherited) and it's worlds apart, so much smoother and accurate. Completely not the question you wanted answered but if you're buying tools buy cheap but twice at least.

303 is bloody lovely, really well sorted bike and absolutely mint condition barring a couple of very small scrapes. I think she might have put more on it from the first ride over Cannock this afternoon with Daisy who was travelling back home to brizzle with her mum and popped in for a ride https://instagram.com/pint_size_cyclist?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

So Persphone is 7 on Thursday and she appears to be growing again because her frog52 is now looking rather cramped! I accidentally a whole whyte303 for 250 quid, collecting it on Thursday evening, got to drive a couple of hours up the M6 to Leyland but that's not too much hassle

I think a decent epoxy floor paint is sufficient

Yeah, I went down onto my right kneecap on one of those things, infrapatellar bursitis is not comfortable

Because our dave is a beefybeefcake™ that needs such a structure to support his atlas like physique?