Why oh why?

...Did I ever decide to build a pit with steam gauges? It would be so much easier to shove a glass cockpit in my panel...

Steam are either:

1. complicated to build or

b. way too expensive and all made in Europe so the exchange rate and shipping are killers!

Got roughed up today on some instruments I had hoped to aquire. Sniped. Headshot. Boom!

Any of you out there thinking of building a pit, please choose glass, and learn from others frustrations!

Mongo signing out (for the night, I will wake up tomorrow just as obsessed with this thing)

Onward Rocinante! Yon Giant tests us mightily! Hand me my lance, good squire Sancho!

"That's Franken-steen"!

Amazing things are happening in here in DIY Pitland! I have acquired something I never thought I would own...

An actual, genuine, bona-fide, Dutch crafted, single or double servo, abs injected, Simkits USB generic gauge kit!

While my pit will definitely not be all simkits as I will have to craft a lot of gauges from home, now I have an idea of how to build the bad mama-jamas! I have the right faceplates...servo and gear measurements...pointer sizes...

Now to just convince my wife that I need to order some few other things. She has already told me that when the wings arrive she is leaving. Hmmm......how much is my paypal balance again?

Oh, yeah almost forgot. Pete Dowson and Tom_G have created a lua script that will allow the Bodnar BUO836X to have encoder acceleration for gauge use! It is like freaking Christmas around here! Gotta get off my butt and start building again!