After a month or two of use I discovered a couple of minor problems. One I can't fix, but the other I can and it will mostly fix the first one.
1. The length between the seat & the front section is to long. I made it this long because the slide out keyboard tray fouled up the joystick & throttle. My poorly thought out solution was to make these pipes longer. After some thought, a better solution would of been to make the joystick mounts further outboard. I can't cut and shorten those pipes now. It's all glued up.
2. The Joystick mount tables were exactly sized to fit a Saitek X52 joystick. This didn't allow for any movement of the joystick.
3. While the right hand table is the right HEIGHT for a mouse pad, it was too small. This made playing FPS games harder than it needs to be.
Solution : Make new joystick mount tables. I've decided that I Might get a Thrustmaster Warthog at some point, and if the X52 fails, I will. So I looked around and found out what size the Warthhog base is and made them that size. The other part of the solution was that instead of mounting them centrally on the uprights, they are in the central rear most corner. This moves the joystick further forward and outward from the seat.
So, now I can slide further forward, which brings the keyboard closer to me and allows for the joystick to not foul the keyboard tray.
If you compare this image with the ones from the previous post you can see the difference. I've also moved it in the room and set up everything. I don't believe I'll be moving it again for a while.
The PC on the left of the seat is the house server. It's a Dual P3-933 IBM with 1GB RAM. The game PC is to the right, with the Rancour Monster on top.
The only forseeable problem now is, if I get 3x widescreen monitors, they won't fit on the table top as it currently is. I'm not sure what my solution to this would be, but I suspect I'd make a new table top and sit it on the current table top.
1. The length between the seat & the front section is to long. I made it this long because the slide out keyboard tray fouled up the joystick & throttle. My poorly thought out solution was to make these pipes longer. After some thought, a better solution would of been to make the joystick mounts further outboard. I can't cut and shorten those pipes now. It's all glued up.
2. The Joystick mount tables were exactly sized to fit a Saitek X52 joystick. This didn't allow for any movement of the joystick.
3. While the right hand table is the right HEIGHT for a mouse pad, it was too small. This made playing FPS games harder than it needs to be.
Solution : Make new joystick mount tables. I've decided that I Might get a Thrustmaster Warthog at some point, and if the X52 fails, I will. So I looked around and found out what size the Warthhog base is and made them that size. The other part of the solution was that instead of mounting them centrally on the uprights, they are in the central rear most corner. This moves the joystick further forward and outward from the seat.
So, now I can slide further forward, which brings the keyboard closer to me and allows for the joystick to not foul the keyboard tray.
If you compare this image with the ones from the previous post you can see the difference. I've also moved it in the room and set up everything. I don't believe I'll be moving it again for a while.
The PC on the left of the seat is the house server. It's a Dual P3-933 IBM with 1GB RAM. The game PC is to the right, with the Rancour Monster on top.
The only forseeable problem now is, if I get 3x widescreen monitors, they won't fit on the table top as it currently is. I'm not sure what my solution to this would be, but I suspect I'd make a new table top and sit it on the current table top.
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