Total cheapskate's HOTAS mounting setup
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Hey,
After I got my HOTAS mounting was an afterthought. It used to lie fixed on the desk’s aluminum keyboard shelf. Come few years and the shelf bent into the L shape.
The setup:Get two PC cases. Mine were to be about to thrown out at friend-of-a-friend’s pc fixing company. It costed no more than a taxi and time to mount.
Get tons of useless books or other worthless heavy stuff like broken bricks. Put some inside the cases, but there’s no need to overdo it.
Get a rope and fix both throttle and the stick through the holes that were meant to go to a drilled surface. Don’t put too much effort into this. It’s not enough by itself.
Finally, get lots of duct tape. Cover the HOTAS as on the images.
There’s absolutely no need to cover both the width and height. After about 5 rounds of wide duct tape it’s gonna stick just fine. Keep in mind, one on the photos is gimbal-less X65F so it requires a more solid setup. It works regardless.
Don’t bother with velcro straps. They won’t suffice by themselves and you’d need to put duct tape over them anyway. Rope and duct tape is enough by themselves.
You may want to rip out the cases’ miniscule plastic stands at the cases’ bottoms but it’s not strictly necessary.
Finally, the photos in all their duct-tape goodness.
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Nice. I have them as u described for years with velcro and they don’t move at all, it’s like one body with the pc cases. The trick is to use 2 for each. 2 for stick 2 for throttle. Install tight the velcro rounding the whole case and the stick base. Have both in parallel. Now the trick: At the bottom of the case get the 2 velcro tapes to get as close as you can so that a v is formed, that way gets super tight.
I have pictures in Pistolero thread and elsewhere IIRC.
Have fun.And detail with the tapes:
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Arty, I put two velcro straps on the throttle and it moved. It’s elastic so not a problem to get it tight. 5-10 layers of duct tape is more solid. This is my own experience.
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If these are thow-away cases, one could also just drill holes though the tops and use the Cougar’s base screws to hold them down. Drill eight holes, remove the bottom plates, re-install the screws. In fact, you could probably even get away with not using the bottom plates - need to check if the stock screws might be too long. But that would make for a real clean setup…use the base plates as a pattern/drill guide.
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Sthalik your pictures don’t show up m8.
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Can’t see images