VKB Gunfighter MK II B - Base dimension query
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 19:43
Hello all. I hope this question isn't out of line, and I apologize for the scribbling in the first picture below.
I'm having custom mounts manufactured for my stick, and would like to know the position of the center of the "circle" that partially describes the Gunfighter Mk II base housing, relative to the 4 mounting hole position.
Please see image below. I know the dimension between the front and back bottom mounting holes, from your rectangular plate dimensions, is 69mm. I can measure the diameter of my existing base as ~ 91.5mm. But I don't know where the center point of the radius is easily in reference to the position of the mounting holes, front-to-back. My current estimate is 25mm from the front holes from a kind of spotty caliper measurement.
The reason I ask is I want the mounting plate I make to partially mimic the shape of the base, sort of like the second image below, and it will really annoy me if I have something made with say a 100mm diameter and my circle isn't concentric with yours, so the margin is uneven. If I'm going the distance to have a custom adapter made (mating to parts with 40-series "8020.net" extrusions) I'd like to get it right. The hatch in the image below represents the circle I'm wanting the center-point position of relative to the 4 holes. (The X-Y axis is kind of overlaying some of my construction lines, sorry for that; I'm using DraftSight by Dassault for the first time and haven't figured out how to hide that in the view...)
The reason my mounting point (bottom of the 2nd image) is asymmetric to the center of the gimbal base is for clearance to the seat when hinged 'down' out of the in-use position, if that was throwing you off.
I'm having custom mounts manufactured for my stick, and would like to know the position of the center of the "circle" that partially describes the Gunfighter Mk II base housing, relative to the 4 mounting hole position.
Please see image below. I know the dimension between the front and back bottom mounting holes, from your rectangular plate dimensions, is 69mm. I can measure the diameter of my existing base as ~ 91.5mm. But I don't know where the center point of the radius is easily in reference to the position of the mounting holes, front-to-back. My current estimate is 25mm from the front holes from a kind of spotty caliper measurement.
The reason I ask is I want the mounting plate I make to partially mimic the shape of the base, sort of like the second image below, and it will really annoy me if I have something made with say a 100mm diameter and my circle isn't concentric with yours, so the margin is uneven. If I'm going the distance to have a custom adapter made (mating to parts with 40-series "8020.net" extrusions) I'd like to get it right. The hatch in the image below represents the circle I'm wanting the center-point position of relative to the 4 holes. (The X-Y axis is kind of overlaying some of my construction lines, sorry for that; I'm using DraftSight by Dassault for the first time and haven't figured out how to hide that in the view...)
The reason my mounting point (bottom of the 2nd image) is asymmetric to the center of the gimbal base is for clearance to the seat when hinged 'down' out of the in-use position, if that was throwing you off.