Help!!!!

[Phil I.]

Wasn't looking over you shoulder...... JOU GOT SUM SLANNIN TO DO....... As Desi would say to Lucy..........

PHIL I.

[JayGee]

Hey Vic,

I make a mean eggplant parmagianna...and most anything else that goes with a nice red. But when you're done explaining your proposal to Jeannie, would you explain it to Mary Ann as well?

I started work on the controller mount this weekend, constructed from 1/2" thick oak, 8-32 bolts and some 1" long nylon spacers I found at the local ACE Hardware.

The oak was first cut into 3-1/2" x 4" rectangles and bolted together with the spacers.





I then realized that one of the pieces needed to be trimmed for the sensitivity adjustment knobs.



So far so good but it appeared that some wood could be trimmed back from the trigger area for Joe's comfort...so out came the saw again. No guys...I don't wear red fingernail polish. Mary Ann makes a damn fine Tool Time Girl!



She also takes better photos!



When we were done, it looked like this.





All that's left is to mount the controller board to the wood with standoffs and drill holes for the PVC pipe. Now that I've a better idea of the standoff dimensions, I'll see if Newark or ACE Hardware has any stock items. If not, I'll take Wing-Car Nut up on his offer to machine some custom ones for us.

[trickyvic3]

Sorry Mary Ann, Its just that guys like us are so hard to find !! Just ask Jennie, NOT !!! HEHEHE Wow Jeff, looking good. I was just showing joe the pics. Hes so happy !! Thank Mary Ann for her help too. Joint effort ?? If you guys need anything, give me a call.
Thanks Jeff, you to Mary Ann

Vic/Joe+Jennie

[JayGee]

Wing-Car Nut,

I emailed you the specs tonight, along with my office address at work.

Thanks,

Jeff

[JayGee]

Wing Car Nut was kind enough to make these 1/4" high standoffs for this project.



They were sized perfectly to fit inside the controller frame's mounting holes.



And threaded to accept 6-32 machine screws.



The standoff's shank was made about 15 thou shorter than the thickness of the frame's PCB. When the screw is tightened, the board is clamped tight to the standoff by a #6 washer.



The mounting holes for the frame were drilled first...locating it in the frame so that as much of the trigger poked out of the bottom while still leaving enough room to give one access to the throttle and brake adjustment knobs.





A 1" hole saw was then used to make the mounting holes for 3/4" ID PVC pipe. The holes were opened up slightly with a dremel because the pipe's OD was just slightly larger than 1". The holes were located so that the pipe's elbow could point either upward in this pic or to the right without blocking access to the adjustment knobs. A matching hole was then drilled in the other side of the fixture.

The elbows were press-fit into the fixture and mounted to the PVC frame.



Here's a couple of pics of the controller mounted to the chest plate.





And Joe's eye view of his JayGee Linear 200.



The first track testing will take place this Saturday at Mid-America Raceway.

[Phil I.]

WOW... Its really coming together nicely........BEST YET...

PHIL I.

[JayGee]

About all that's left to do is convince my employer to pay for my airline tickets to Boston so I can fit the controller to Joe. I figure that no matter how well I plan they'll need to be some on-site adjustments to be made.

Jeff

[M G Brown]

Hm, or fly Joe to Chicago?

[JayGee]

Hey Vic,

Tell Joe I took laps with the worlds first chin operated controller on Mid-America Raceway's Midwest Monster tonight. Pics to follow later.

-Jeff

[Southslot]

Jeff, If I ever have the bucks to buy a real nice controller it'll be your's without question!!

All these people working together to help this boy out is something you all should be very proud of!! Maybe I can build him a car or something, it's not much but it's something.. Vic, what kind of cars do you guys like to run?

SS

[trickyvic3]

Jeff, If I ever have the bucks to buy a real nice controller it'll be your's without question!!

All these people working together to help this boy out is something you all should be very proud of!! Maybe I can build him a car or something, it's not much but it's something.. Vic, what kind of cars do you guys like to run?

SS

THANKS, Joe loves 41/2 stock cars, They are what him and I used to run a few years back. He also liked good old fashion flexi cars.

[Southslot]

Check your PM's. Looking forward to an update on Joe today.

SS

[THOBART]

About all that's left to do is convince my employer to pay for my airline tickets to Boston so I can fit the controller to Joe. I figure that no matter how well I plan they'll need to be some on-site adjustments to be made.

Jeff

I will give you the miles.

Later
Tony

[JayGee]

O'k, Mary Ann is much prettier to look at than I do and had volunteered to model the controller, but she does take better photos. So you get to see my ugly mug instead.

Vic, let me know if Joe is huskier than I am around his chest. If so, we'll have to be prepared to lengthen the belt that holds the chest plate on. Since the PVC pipes are just press fit together, it'll be easy to move the controller fixture up/down and backward/forward for Joe's comfort.



You can clearly see the USB cable in these photos. The power module is resting on the drivers panel.



For those of you that keep track of stats, I managed to get my ISRA B-Production car around the track in about 10 seconds...about twice as long as it normally takes me. Ummmmm, I wonder if I can claim a track record for chin operated controllers?

[trickyvic3]

Jeff, Im going to take the lap top back into joe this morning. Hes got to see this !! All your hard work is paying off. I,ll post more info on joe tonight.

Vic