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Title: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: SirPoonga on March 22, 2005, 09:33:26 am
How would one make their own gas or brake pedal?
Title: Re: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: nipsmg on March 22, 2005, 09:44:58 am
With pots.
 ;D


Edit (I've searched for this also, I'm definitely interested in hearing the answer).
Title: Re: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: SirPoonga on March 22, 2005, 10:46:40 am
I'm interested in a couple of reasons.
Title: Re: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: menace on March 22, 2005, 10:52:22 am
http://www.gunpowder.freeserve.co.uk/wheels/buildmain.htm

best write up i've come across--(your mileage may vary)  8)

Title: Re: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: GGKoul on March 22, 2005, 10:55:10 am
http://www.gunpowder.freeserve.co.uk/wheels/buildmain.htm

best write up i've come across--(your mileage may vary)
Title: Re: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: Tiger-Heli on March 22, 2005, 12:16:34 pm
http://www.gunpowder.freeserve.co.uk/wheels/buildmain.htm

best write up i've come across--(your mileage may vary)
Title: Re: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: hbm*rais on March 22, 2005, 02:06:20 pm
Lot's of information on building pedals, wheels and whole cockpits on this forum:

http://forum.rscnet.org/forumdisplay.php?f=186

But the two links mentioned before should cover most of what you need.

Beware, thou, as you mentioned guitars, there is two kinds of pots: logarithmic one (used for audio applications) and linear ones (the ones you need).
Title: Re: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: hatrick on March 22, 2005, 03:18:39 pm
I'm interested in a couple of reasons.
Title: Re: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: Lilwolf on March 22, 2005, 03:21:42 pm
quick note... both of those will only work well with a sit down cabinet.  You really want to look at a thinner one.

I JUST won a 2 pedal set on ebay (because I have one pole position pedal now, and wanted a second because of two steering wheels).

Anyway, I will have one up for sale if the other two work out in a few weeks.  I think I got it for 10+shipping...
Title: Re: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: Voodooray on March 23, 2005, 05:55:43 am
I got these for free when i bought a steering wheel asembly and turbo gear shift for
Title: Re: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: menace on March 23, 2005, 08:36:42 am
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Menace, what did you use?

I based my design on the first link with modifications becuase I wanted 360 wheels not 270--so i kept the double row of bearings (used roller blade wheel bearing and not pillow block ones) and instead of the gear at the end, I have an encoder wheel which I based off of one of the templates over in the build your own spinner section.  I also used a long carriage bolt (5/16") as it made mounting everything so much easier--just bolt it together and call it done.  The head of the bolt is hidden under the plastic cap on the wheel.

For pedals I used pc pedals--cheaper, easy to find and already wired.
Title: Re: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: Chris on March 23, 2005, 12:06:37 pm
For pedals I used pc pedals--cheaper, easy to find and already wired.
When you're standing up, though, you're putting pressure on the plastic pedals in a way they weren't designed to take.  My plastic PC pedals always feel like they're going to break.

I was thinking of building pedals using heavy-duty gate hinges.  They'll look awful, but they'll work well from a standing perspective.

--Chris
Title: Re: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: menace on March 24, 2005, 06:47:56 am
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When you're standing up, though, you're putting pressure on the plastic pedals in a way they weren't designed to take.  My plastic PC pedals always feel like they're going to break.

I'm perfectly happy with the pc pedals I'm using (dexxxa) and they are more than sturdy enough to withstand significant abuse (I've had some friends kids over to "playtest" the machine--amazing what the rugrats can destroy that you wouldn't even think about...
Title: Re: Making your own gas/brake analog pedal
Post by: SirPoonga on March 24, 2005, 01:12:06 pm
Like I said, I've been searching guitar volume pedal sites too.

http://www.geocities.com/stompboxworktop/rocker4.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/stompboxworktop/

Just need to put a sping on one side of the pedal for arcade.