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@@crankfotton I wish I could respond with images. Imagine the Ben Affleck smoking meme here 😂

@@BlackSockRepublic hahaha I think I was drunk when I left that comment

@@crankfotton that makes it even funnier

@@aaronfidanza4627 don’t feel bad - I felt stupid too asking for help on fb until someone told ME to go to chatGPT lol

@@JamesG19771 good to know. I’ll give him a text, suggest you do the same!

@@CompaRichy I have 3 lol

@@checksixivan4921 there isn’t one - you need to contact him directly

@@checksixivan4921 unsure. Might be

The internals are not the same. -Jackson

Thanks, so do you know if the Kepler 22 does NOT have the “click” center detent “gimbal” issue as the PRO? It looks like it does not have the same shaft into the base.

@@NegdoshaManido sell me the SSC lol

@@BlackSockRepublic Who knows, maybe some day I'll let it go, but I'm still holding out hope I can find a grip.

@@NegdoshaManido let me know

@@NegdoshaManidothis is Jackson. Yeah, good luck with a real grip. A model grips are easy to find but good luck with finding a C model. Have you wired the ssc for the sim yet? I would ask around the facebook groups for a grip. The only way to get one is to catch someone selling it leaving the hobby.

@@airhog8161 Hi Jackson! No, I have not wired the ssc for sim use yet. I've been waiting for a grip to get serious about that. I'm not on Facebook anymore, but I stick my head into the Viperpits forum on occasion, hoping for one to show up there. I'll have to settle for the Invictus and Tian Hang combo, which still pretty dang ok, until I find a real grip! : )

@@checksixivan4921 no.

@@mrscreaminghell both of those things are in the works.

@@BlackSockRepublic Ah ok, I knew about the Invictus v3.0, but didn't know that Tianhang was working on a new pro base. I was hoping to order the base and stick at the same time from Tianhang. But I think I'll bite the bullet and buy the stick anyways and wait for the updated fssb's. Buy once, cry once am I right?

@@mrscreaminghell I absolutely believe in buy once cry once yes

It’s not steel but aluminum!

Alright, to finaly answer the big question I wrote a email to Essex industries (the manufacture), they told me it's out of aluminium.😅

Yes. Btw this is Jackson. The real grip is made from precesion casted aluminum. There is no way to mill an object this precise so they have really nice molds. Then they clean it up a little and boom.

Essex also doesn’t make much of them. Mason controls does a lot of the grips. Essex really only makes the F-35 and F-22.

Could you please do a full review on your REAL F16 grip? Would be great!

I used an Arduino

I don't think the Cougar HOTAS software is that bad. Takes a little getting used to you, but allows you to fully customize the Force Transducer effectively. I bought one off ebay earlier this year. Gets the job done.

@@lukejordan9670 I wish I could post gif’s here, to post Michael from the office screaming no

@@billcedarheath387 well that’s a really rude thing to say.

@@BlackSockRepublic Rude? That’s Gen X sarcastic humor. Hence the laughing emoji to express it as humor. Have a sip of some good stuff and laugh with it. You know it’s funny. 😁

@@The_ViperProject won’t be long!

@@mimino0125 oh, hell. I jinxed myself when I said “last video”

I made a bunch

​@@BlackSockRepublichow much and how to get in contact with you for some better photos?

@@xUSAFWolfman I don’t have any more to sell I’m afraid

@@BlackSockRepublic ouch well I'll still subscribe. I'm a fan of weller even if it is green or elijah craig barrel proof as my fav barrel proof for the money.

I'll likely sell it yeah

@@The_ViperProject yes, I have the latest model. I plan on getting my Hands on that laser soon! Have you released a new tutorial on how you make panels?? I can’t wait!

Same here - side panels would be handy. I'll reach out and see if I can get my hands on the updated versions

@@ArchOfficial ITS SO OVER (Tianhang releases an Otto switched stick) WE ARE SO BACK

Thrustmasters never say die!

@@suspedomaxxin LOL

@@suspedomaxxiniiiron 🦅

@@thechamp4140 😂😂😂

@@thechamp4140 this comment really made my day

@@tver thanks bud! Yeah the real sticks are resin, this stick is nylon. Feels great. If you have a carbon fiber capable printer, there’s a kind of filament that’s very expensive but prints smooth as butter and stronger even… that’s the best bet. My buddy Jackson has it.

Isn't the real thing out of aluminium? I mean... the throttle is...

@@memeswithoutcontext4716 I’m told the real sticks are resin. Lemme ask my buddy who has a real one. I could be wrong.

@@ImperatorTheodosius stay tuned man!

@@atIas-hugged oh, really? That’s weird because clamping worked great with the Invictus. I was able to tell just fine… but hey, don’t take My word for it. Go order them both yourself and see!

@@ArchOfficial AH, I was wondering how long it would take to offend someone! Took longer than I thought actually. The irony of a mod of a game (falcon 4.0) from 1998 surpassing the viper released in 2019 by dcs was the butt of the joke, yes. I’m well aware BMS is better than DCS. It’s a little of both. It deflects more than the almost completely rigid slews in the hog and eagle, but it’s still technically a force transducer. It works incredibly well, so well in fact that when delta sim releases theirs (which will be a commercial version of the viper slew) I might see if I can engineer it into my a10 throttle.

@@BlackSockRepublic Not offended, I just see this argument a lot and I found it weird someone who clearly fucking knows a little bit is making it. The irony went over my head, apologies. It's hard to tell nowadays what's a joke and what's just retarded. Sounds sick. I wish I could try something like that. Money's not a particular issue, although there's only so much you can spend before you can't justify it; besides, I don't have space for *another* rig. So STECS it is for me... Some day.

@@ArchOfficial man I was lusting after the STECS so hard… ….in 2019. God. They took SO LONG to make that… The delta sim slew will be in the 150 dollar range and well worth it IMO. snag it when it shows up.

@@DanielDrake he’s working on some stuff, I’m very active in the discord. There will be a rematch…

@@FGCH03 it’s a tianhang a10 stick with real switches installed by Jackson

@@dev1360 aw that blows man!

@@robertsolomon2271 I’m not sure what you’re asking. The actual assembly of the TQS or the grip itself? You can get a realistic TQS from Ben Dickensen, as for the grip… I think he 3d prints the shell and you could put real switches in it. Jackson can help you there.

@@callsignbh it might not be so bad once it’s mounted. Then again it might. The vfs3.0 is a long way away

@@EnigmaticPenguin thank you so much :)

@@NegdoshaManido thanks dude! I’m a 320 guy as well! As for mounting I’m unsure… both sticks will require some pretty major surgery to the pit to make work but “ha ha jigsaw go brrrrr” and I have plenty of scrap wood so I’ll make it work. It’ll be in my adder fanged series, what I decide to do with it. Something. Idk what. Something.

@@BlackSockRepublic Haha! Roger that! And another 'bus driver! Excellent! I just flew the 321 neo for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Friggin Cadillac, man. Love it!

@@NegdoshaManido yeah they’re pretty cool! So quiet at altitude too

Full disclosure: I hate the cougar board too. I’ve solved the board issue with an off the shelf board but I’m trying to make a custom board that’s better for it. My hangup is one of the two crystal oscillators on it. I haven’t found a good solution yet. But, I’m close.

@@Invictuscockpits I know you’ll rock it, man. At this point I wanna TPU ring your SSC, until the 3.0 arrives. Keep plugging dude!

@@ricseixas1 sadly :(

@@memeswithoutcontext4716 took me like an hour lol

@@The_ViperProject I was too, to be honest. If you’ve got the money, getting your hands on an old cougar is worth it just to harvest the board…. And then you can go the VFS route. Chris has a lot of stuff going on though, and said don’t expect the 3.0 for a couple of months sadly :/

@@thechamp4140 my pleasure to do it

@@EnigmaticPenguin I haven’t fucked with his (or anyone else’s) F18 shit, but knowing him and his quality I’d not even bother with thrustmaster and go with his. One year from now, tianhang will be bigger than winwing. Mark my words. If I’m right you owe me a bourbon ;)

@@BlackSockRepublic I hope you’re right! The market always needs more competition!

@@EnigmaticPenguin yes. The golden age of simulation was the 90’s… it’s been dead a while. VR in 2016 revitalized it and now we’re riding a wave of sim resurgence, and homie… I’m surfing 🥃

@@aHornetsNest thanks buddy! Our fight will be legendary!

@@JuWerlang oh hi! Fancy seeing you here!

@@memeswithoutcontext4716 thank you so much! Def green. Always been a green guy.

I got a good tip on one of the building groups, leave the back of the panels unpainted and then use LED strips for the backlighting. Makes the wiring massively easier, and for funsies you can easily use RGB LED strips.

@@LtShifty jeah good tip, but there are a few problems with that. If you want to light out a potentiometer or anything round you'll have problems, it could also hotspot text passages. And if you use bothe, single LEDs and strips you will not get the colour or lighting correct. But the colour choice option is pretty cool. :)

@@LtShifty oh I dig it! I plan to get a laser and start making my own so I’ll experiment :)

@@memeswithoutcontext4716 that's a good point actually, I hadn't thought about the rotary lighting. That's a way off in my build yet, I've also cut all my panels with LED holes so I have the option to spray the panels and install them if needed.

@@billcedarheath387 ooohhhhhhhh you right, you right. I’m def going to. Good looking out.