Wow. Just... wow. Came here from the link on the SimHQ home page - very glad I did!

I have dreams of moving to Australia and having a basement/garage/purpose-built outbuilding on my own land to give me enough space to do this sort of thing - build your own CNC machine, that's incredible! Not feasable in a 12x15' bedroom in a shared maisonette with nice carpet everywhere though :-)

Dozer, thanks for the er...props I was wondering why my thread has had over a thousand hits since yesterday morning! You are the first non pit builder that has posted since then though. Thanks for checking it out.

I can understand the space restrictions, before I met my wife I lived in a 900sq foot apartment with my 9 year old daughter. Not much room even for my PC much less a simpit. We moved into my new bride's home (going on 8 years! Wonderful woman) which is a 4200sq foot three story, seven bedroom modern farmhouse on ten acres of land. Sometime I feel extremely spoiled (ok, most of the time I do). Notice the dedication on my simpit instrument panel to my wife

I love this build. It's the thread that just keeps giving!

I really like the fold back 'hood', I think I'll be stealing that idea

If I was putting a dedication to the wife in my cockpit, it would say "Remember, she's in the next room and can hear everything you say on Teamspeak"

i like this pit because the basic design is so simple
do you have some sort of plans we could use to build it?

Time to repay some of your compliments Propnut, that CNC is a work of art. Its something that I would like to get building when I have more time, looks complicated.

There was somebody building these Aces II seats over at Frugal's a while ago using a CNC F16 Seat You could have a go at drawing up some plans and crank one out on your machine.

Nice job on the backlighting, great effect using that light.

Hi Snipey, sorry for not responding sooner. I must have missed your comment when it was posted. I do not have any plans for what I built, it was pretty much seat of the pants deadstick planning MKII is being planned in CAD though so we will see how it turns out.

Choowy, thank you sir. I have fun building in my shop and the chance to build a tool is always welcome. It really was a simple build though, very easy and not at all as expensive as I expected it to be. The work it turns out is great, making projects much simpler now.

That is a cool F16 office chair!

ok i understand.
thanks for responding

The Generic simpit has been retired. It is in the process of being disassembled and either given away (if there is anyone local that wants it) or cut up. I gave the computer to a buddy (keeping the HD5850 to crossfire with my other one in the desktop) and I have been busy planning out a new F-16/A-10 pit. I do not plan on building any time soon as we are in the process of buying property and will start building a new house (hopefully by summer 2012, if the world is going to end it might as well happen in a new house). But when I do I should have all the plans (CAD) done and it will be a process of cutting them out and assembling them. The Jet pit will be stationary and I am going to build a motion pit for racing games. They will be powered by my current desktop PC (see sig) and I will have by that time built a new one (looking foward to the X68 or whatever Intel comes up with next year).

Thanks everyone for tuning in, and I hope to see many of you complete your own pits in the future.

David

Seeing your build of the Generic Simpit has been very educational, David. Thanks for posting the pics and discussing the design along the way. That is awfully good of you to offer the 'pit to someone that could use it. Good luck on the property and the house construction and I'll be looking for your new designs/plans for racing and flight cockpits.

Derek

btw, your desktop PC is fantastic!

Thanks Derek, it was fun to build. I found that I enjoyed building more than using though, lol. I prefer to fly from my desktop for convience sake.

The PC case is going also, since it was designed to fit into the corner of the desk under the cabinets and I now have three monitors taking up that desktop space I am going to design and build something different. If you know someone that wants it let me know. (Shipping would be expensive though)

David