If you're NOOB level, Hitch, I guess I would be SUB-NOOB. I have probably about 45 minutes of stick time in DCS A-10C. Been working graveyards and it's hard to get any "me" time. Hopefully by November I'll be able to get on a regular shift and get some normalcy back in my life. But I guess that's what happens when you're at the bottom of the totem pole. I'm totally interested in joining a squad, but I don't have any time to fly right now.

Is there a place those plans can be downloaded or purchased?

tnx.

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Gene, yeah, over on the official DCS forums in the "Home Cockpits" sub-forum. It's in the thread "Jedi's A-10C home made cockpit".

Thanks Renic. Here's a direct link: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=78417

I've offered to produce an optimized version of the drawings for CNC - if jedi takes me up on it, I'll publish the results, including the CRV files from VCarve Pro.

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Awesome. Scanning through the thread it seems that there is some sort of issue with the files, perhaps that's why Ryyy has yet to let me know anything. I'm still down to do a group build/buy of this, even though I'm in the middle of my current build!

Alright so I've been back and forth with three shops and an independent cutter up in Palmdale.

I've got a price range which would be around $175. The work from Gene with helping us get the optimized plans that will really just let the vendor
load the file and start cutting has cut down the cost dramatically. Just waiting on the finalized ones.

I have me and another friend that are going to purchase so let me know Renic if you're seriously interested.

You and anyone else who reads this can e-mail me at rynpaulbert@gmail.com .
SimHQ seems to not agree for some reason and not notify me if I have any private messages.

I am gauging on perhaps making a thread for local Californian's who want in on this as well and perhaps we can get the price down if we do a
batch from the vendor.

I am down to do this, but I won't have any extra money until the 14th. I was planning on getting a TrackIR5 then, but I would rather grab another pit! $175 is worth it to me to have such an awesome design cut professionally.

Contact the shop and see if we can get a group buy discount and how many people we would need to purchase the pit in total in order to get some sort of discount.

Thanks for your hard work on this, I was following the thread on ED, seemed like quite a bit went into getting this done!

And thanks to Gene too, great job on optimizing the plans!

Hey there Renic,

No worries about having money at this very moment. I'm not planning on having this done until the end of the month and/or the details are finalized.

I sent over an email about a "group" buy tonight and I'll be waiting for his response. He's usually good to hit me back up in a timely manner so hopefully I can get an answer soon.

I did forget to mention that he did not include the price of the 5mm bit he would need to purchase for his CNC machine as he does not carry that size. We would have to put in a little more than $175 to cover the purchase of the bit and from my other sources, the bit should cost maybe around ~$30. Hopefully with multiple orders this should not even matter.

I also did ask him to confirm the price WITH materials and bit included, as he did not specify if the $175 covered for them.

Stay posted (:

Here's the link for the optimized plans and VCarve Pro files:
http://www.geneb.org/a10/optimized-wharthog-v2.zip

There are no tool paths included in the CRV files - I figured CNC ops would have their own ways of doing things and this is pretty easy to path.

You MUST use a 5mm or smaller cutter to cut these out - that's the bit I specified for the optimization.

A 5MM cutter can be had from Centurion Tools for less than $20:
http://www.centuriontools.com/router_bit...2=2&id3=424

You'll need to use a 1/8" cutter for doing the lettering pocket operations to make sure the lettering comes out ok.

You can get 4x8 sheets of Russian Birch @ 12mm for anywhere from $24 to $36 a sheet. 18mm floats around $40 a sheet, but you don't need very much of that. I don't know what 6mm goes for.

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Can't help since I folded my shop a few years back but it is cool to see how CNC machining is somewhat mainstreamed now. I did it for 20+ years.


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