Floriske.nl's 2DOF Playseat GT Wiper motor Project

Thx! A bit too shiny imho though, due to that you see every minor dent and flaw in the (and there are quite a few since the motors are around 25+ year old) motor housing. But as mentioned most of it will be out of sight so I can live with it

I found out something...it doesnt matter how good or bad a sim looks, once you are on it and it moves well, you dont care what it looks like :thbup:

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Some more progress on the motor assemblies, finishes one of them as far as possible:

First of all, the motor mounts:

Eventhough the motors run slightly faster in one direction than in the other I took the risk of mirror mounting them because this simply looks better.

Next I assembled one of the motors:

(Don't mind the greasy fingers, I'll clean those of once finished )

And finally mounted it all together:


Must say I'm very pleased with the result

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Just mounted the other motor assembly as well:

Now you can see what I meant with mirror mounting the motors, this way they both stick to the back, imho better than one sticking forward

nice work floriske, I like that you have it all new looking.

Thx!

Now let's hope the motors will do their job nicely and won't break down on me
I allready had to make new brackets to keep the magnets in place in one motor because one was broken (just in case... I made a second set for the other motor as well) and hope they won't show more quirks during the process.

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Finally got to do some more work on my build the past few days.

First of all I printed a template for my platforms on 12 A3 sheets, glued them together and cut them:


After drawing the top platform onto my plywood I could cut of the extruding piece which results in the base shape for the bottom plaform:


And finally after cutting them with the hacksaw, rounding the edges with my router and some sanding here's the result:

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Last weekend a friend of mine welded my pivot.

Here's what it looked like after welding and cleaning of the paint and exces rust:


After the paint job together with all the other parts:

Unfortunately they send me 2 pink springs instead of all red ones, but new red ones are on their way!

And after assembling:

It was getting dark, hence the crappy picture, but I'll try to take better ones together with the next update.

The best spots for the spring will have to be determined after building the entire rig, for now I placed them at the end because this was the easiest.

They are pretty strong so I reckon eventually they will have to stay pretty close to the pivot.

very cool!
nice work! :clap: :hi:
i like!

Thx! What more can I say

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Here's the better pic of the pivot I promissed:


And I couldn't resist stacking the parts together to get a general idea of the end result:


I was afraid the springs would be too strong, but the way they are currently mounted (no spring load/tension when the platform is balanced) and without driver (which eventually brings the center of gravity more towards the rear) the platform slightly tilts forward and only a bit of force has to be applied to tilt it sideways.

So I reckon they aren't too strong after all since I will have to increase the spring tension especially when a driver adds another 90kg to the weight :

Hello floriske.nl

Really a nice clean job and very nice I also like how you assembled the engines congratulations!! :clap:

Those springs under the seat where you found them? springs are specific to some machine? :?

Hello Kevin

Thx kevin!

Those springs are adjustable trunk lid springs, I bought them on ebay

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R4 ... unk+spring

Just a status update: currently I'm doing some home improvement work on our attic and it's pretty hot over here so next update might take a while.

Yes dude, great looking setup, the springs will help, just a matter of adjustment and trial and error.
I think I may purchase some myself.
Go Hard with the renovation!

@bsft: Currently it's 25 to 30ºC overhere, which results in our attic being around- and over 30ºC atm, not realy a comfortable temp for manual labor

It also happens to be the space where I'm building my sim (on the last stack up photo you can see the cabinets with the sliding doors, that's what I'm working on).

So be patient my friend :brows:

Ontopic: Bought an as good as new (3.5 months old, hardly used) Fanatec GT2 with clubsport pedals (incl. tuning kit) and porsche shifters (incl playseat mount) yesterday for a very nice price, so the controls are settled!

Only over 30 deg c? Youd better not work in Sydney when its a hot summer, like when its 40 deg + outside. That makes it about 55-60 deg in a roof space. Insulate and ventilate, that will help as well as aircon. I used to work in attic conversions, so even with a reno-ed roof space it was still hot until finished.

Problem is that it went from 15ºC to 30ºC in a few days time and humidity is quite high, that takes some time getting used to

Next to that there is no deadline and we have enough other stuff to do, so I'd rather wait till it cools down again :yes:

Thanks for the link :thbup: I will need for my next project! that's why I had not found them to look for in a hardware store auto parts, however I think I'll take the link of your ebay price and good

Hello and good job for your home

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Found some time to do some work today:

Since a playseat isn't build for people who are almost 2m tall I wasn't really happy with the wheel positioning. It was a bit too close for my likings or ended up being too high.

To solve this problem I firtst cut of the piece of plastic sticking out of the wheel mount towards the driver.


This leaves an ugly edge, but as you can see in the next pictures this will be covered by my new mounting plate for which I also took the sequential shifter into account.


And here it is remounted on the seat, now the wheel is about 10cm further away and a lot better positioned.


Of course the wood will be painted black later on.

On the last two pictures you can also see I've allready cut a plank for my pedals, they will be mountable in 2 ways. On the right for driving with clutch and right foot braking, on the left for driving sequential with left foot braking. But more on this later.

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Not really an update with a lot of photos but one with a lot of work behind it.

Have been working on mounting all parts together and since this was mostly drill a hole / hit a T-nut into the hole / fasten a bolt this wasn't really worth taking pictures of.

I did however shoot a short movie with one motor quickly connected to an old PC PSU (so no JRK's etc. yet).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGQiWM7eObY