#3512331 - 02/06/12 03:51 AM
Re: Review: Obutto oZone Gaming Cockpit
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Wish I had a CAD program on here, but like this: Top is what you have, a machine shop can give you a perfect vertical slot, a little on either side of the current hole. Then you can adjust the center up and down as needed. jskibo-- Those might work for the side arms, in terms of lowering them both a bit. I don't know how they'd work for the center monitor because I need to raise that one if I leave the side monitors at their current height. Wouldn't the weight of the monitor make it impossible to raise upward in the vertical slot? The weight of the monitor would just pull the screws down to the bottom portion of the slot.
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#3512334 - 02/06/12 03:54 AM
Re: Review: Obutto oZone Gaming Cockpit
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You can lengthen the screw holes yourself too, if you drill a series of holes below with a smaller drill bit.
Then keep increasing the size and do them again.
As you increase the size the holes connect.
Another way is to use a chisel to hit between the new hole and the old. But this metal is very tough. So basically, on the side arms that are currently too high, drill a hole directly below the four holes that are currently there, essentially vertically widening the hole length, thus lowering the side monitors?
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#3512968 - 02/06/12 10:18 PM
Re: Review: Obutto oZone Gaming Cockpit
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my Obutto should be in tomorrow. Sadly I've relized my current monitor (a 27" samsung) does not have vesa standard wall mounting option. gotta get a new monitor... the ASUS VE278Q looks about right, but isn't availible locally. guess it'll be a few days more before I get to try it out.
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#3513089 - 02/07/12 12:40 AM
Re: Review: Obutto oZone Gaming Cockpit
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You should check out the HardOCP Display forums--lots of discussion about various monitors, including the VE278Q. If I recall correctly, many of them might suffer from really noticeable backlight bleed issues, though don't take my word for it.
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#3513604 - 02/07/12 06:12 PM
Re: Review: Obutto oZone Gaming Cockpit
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Teej my seat is all the way back I can get very close. But then my legs would be too bent to aim well with the pedals. My arm is exactly horizontal with that stick setup, I have rugby legs lol. For long flights though it would be nice to have it a bit lower but I think I'd lose some precision if I removed the extension. Having said that, even without the extension it was still very comfortable originally more so than a desk mostly due to the centre mount. Well...when I first saw that picture I thought the extension didn't look long enough and the mounting looked uncomfortably high. Looks like that was erroneous perception of the picture. Skipping the long thought process, I currently have a piece about 2.7" / 7cm (chosen because I figured that was the shortest I could "easily" tweak a ps2 extension cable for - shorter would take a bit more work) and think that's going to work just fine. What I'm probably going to do, though, is weld the mounting arm to the top of the joystick plate, rather than the bottom, so I can get the stick base a bit lower than what you did.
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#3513834 - 02/07/12 11:20 PM
Re: Review: Obutto oZone Gaming Cockpit
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Obutto Ozone received this morning. FedEx guy never gets to my house before noon, but did today. I've inserted the wheel/yoke mount upside down with the intention of mounting my CH MFP there facing me vice being on a table top. New monitor should arrive thursday or friday. I was a bit skeptical about how my CH Combatstick (with it's wide base) would work out using the flight package center mount and CH propedals (with their narrowish spacing). I have the pedal tray on the lowest angle, without being on the floor, and found no "rubbing discomfort" issues while going from full left to full right rudder. Just enough clearance to be comfortable. So Happy I found this thread and the Obutto. I have tried a few homemade PVC designs, and always ended up back at my old desk for 1 reason or another. This pit is realatively inexpensive, and with it's modular design, smallish foot print, and swiveling keyboard tray is exactly right for what I wanted. And, I find the seat pretty comfortable too!
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#3514237 - 02/08/12 03:59 PM
Re: Review: Obutto oZone Gaming Cockpit
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oh no...your once proud pit. Where you moving to?
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#3514276 - 02/08/12 04:42 PM
Re: Review: Obutto oZone Gaming Cockpit
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The Misses had a very strong negative reaction to seeing the obutto assembled.
Very strong...
If anyone is looking to buy one, PM me.
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#3514281 - 02/08/12 04:53 PM
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Ahh, cool. I live in NC, in case we ever have a NC SimHQ get together. Beach,Piper, Bib4Tuna, you, me, and several other folks.
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#3514282 - 02/08/12 04:54 PM
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The Misses had a very strong negative reaction to seeing the obutto assembled.
Very strong...
If anyone is looking to buy one, PM me.
Time for a little reeducation, methinks. Show her the errors in her thinking.
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#3514334 - 02/08/12 05:50 PM
Re: Review: Obutto oZone Gaming Cockpit
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Time for a little reeducation, methinks. Show her the errors in her thinking.
She doesn't believe that any married family man would in there right mind have such a contraption. In her mind I am dogfighting high school kids. I've met several of the guys I fly with in online. Let's just say the majority of them are well past college age We're trying to sort out a compromise. I may actually be reclaiming the basement as my cave. If so, win win. But, for now should anyone be considering buying an obtutto base cockpit, my day old one is availible at a lower then retail price. Even though I don't want it to be.
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#3514342 - 02/08/12 06:00 PM
Re: Review: Obutto oZone Gaming Cockpit
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Hold onto is my advice...put it back in the box, and into your garage or attic. If things progress w/ the missus on that front, six months or a year from now, you will be glad you held onto it. It really is pretty sweet for gaming. And I do office work in it, too, so it can double as an office chair (though it's less comfortable over longer stretches of time than a good office chair- doesn't really provide ergonomic support)
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Exodus
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