Started on this project - great design - Have the Throttle levers all printed and assembled with the wiring. This is my 3rd throttle project - first was 767 throttle I built from cast acrylic, milled with a non cnc milling machine. Built in FSD / start of P3D using opencockpits (which I still use today - though i have bought an arduino mega 2560 to investigate possibility of change over)
2nd was a 737 Throttle set from thingiverse for my Ifly737. completed but I was never happy with the 'engineering' of the whole assembly. I came across 737DIYSIM and have never looked back. several small projects completed and installed in the Ifly737 - am astounded with the engineering design of all the items completed to date.
The reason for this post is, I have always used sliders for the pots and by arranging the pushrod, this always gave a full 10k swing from end to end of all the controls. but i have found no way to incorporate slider, gearing, or pulleys within the design. I am concerned (though I probably shouldn't be) about only having about 60odd degree of pot travel for control travel (resolution) anybody like to comment - especially if you have managed to achieve slider/gearing etc with the design or modification
TIA Mike
Hi, I have a small problem with your brilliant 737 saitech throttle design. I am missing the lettering when I make a mesh of the top plate. There are Body's for letters but no complete decal. Am I missing something?
It is great fun printing the parts and finding the hardware for this project, especially living here in the Philippines, ha.
Looking forwards to a reply and take care.
Hi Karl,
Thank you for your reply.
I loaded a STL file into Fusion360 (using the option: “Open”, [Crt+O]) then, to test it, I created a small sketch to create a cut in the loaded STL file (Extrude / Cut) but, it doesn’t work. I have an error messages “No target body found….”.
Obviously, me lack of Fusion360 knowledge does no help.
If you can help with the process, it would be most welcome.
Thank you.
Best regards.
skywalker
Hi mikehiggins72.
Just to let you know that I have managed to split the part that require long printing times into smaller and more manageable STL files.
Inserting this files as a mesh into Fusion360, creating a new body and them edit them into smaller parts.
It work very well.
Best regards.
skywalker
Hi mikehiggins72.
Thank you for your comments. I'll give it a go...
skywalker
Hi Karl,
As you may recall I bought the “Boeing 737 Throttle Quadrant V3” recently. I have already printed most of the parts except the “Big-ones”: I am using Creality slicer and these are the printing times:
LH Base Body (34) (~18 hours printing time)
RH BODY (44) (~18 hours printing time)
Throttle Base Body (56) (~37 hours printing time)
It is very difficult to keep the printer working for these long periods.
I was wandering, would it be possible to get the files to edit them in Fusion360. The purpose is to re-design these parts or break them into smaller parts, print them and then, put them together to reduce the continue long printing times (something similar to what you done with the "MTU V5, MTU Small Printer Mod").
As soon as I complete the TQ V3, I would start the MTQ V5.
Would you please let me know about these files?
Thank you for your help, and keep up your good work.
Best regards.
J. M
hi carl have just bought the version 3 throttle and am wondering if i would be able to print and attach the extra box stand under it which you have done for the newer versions jjim
Good morning Mike,
When I designed the v3 throttle it was more of a whim. It was built at request and was used by myself as learning platform. I never thought this many people would download it, Afterall just one person asked for it.
The problem you quite rightly point out is the limited travel of the pots on all axis. This is corrected in the MTUv5 where the sensing devices have the gear ratio to make sure they travel to there max points. That said, the throttle does work well when calibrated with USB game controller in windows.
I have moved away from the V3 mods for now as i try to complete some other projects.
Kind regards Karl.