Custom made Logitech Force GT mount.

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Hello,

Finally got my steering wheel this weekend after hunting high and low throughout South East England.

All I had to do was mount it. I had spent many hours thinking of how to use bits I had lying about the house. I had a thick column already and the first prototype I made was unstable as all the forces go through that one point. No matter how I reinforced it, the design was flawed from the outset.

I abandoned it and started with a new philosophy. Put the forces through four equidistant points/legs as opposed to one thick column.

This is the final effort for today and it works like a dream, solid as a rock . Total cost was £13 for wood , bolts wing nuts and nails.
Wing nuts allow me to take it down and store it easily.

http://i.imgur.com/MBo3Xl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/uOb3y.jpg

Below is the flawed design.
http://i.imgur.com/CZewY.jpg
 
I was thinking about them rocker type chairs.
They any good?

I thought maybe you would rock backward when braking.

Anyone else use one.
 
My chair doesn't rock when I brake and it's much more comfy than an upright chair, you can stabilise it easily with 2 short planks etc wedged under it I'm sure.

I used those sticky carpet underlays to stop the mount sliding about though.
 
I must say that looks about as simple as it gets... I like it lot :) .......I bet alot of people will be makin that one . I was playin gt5 a couple days ago ,and this dude was driving a redbull x1 with a DFGT in his lap . They should include the plans for your build in the logitech box 👍
 
Nice easy, simple cheap design m8. I like it!

Im making a custom adjustable and foldable design for my DFGT thats taking me a little bit more time but it will hopefully double up as a cockpit with a bolt on seat. See here https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=164895

I really like your design for its simplicity, nice work!

Anyway need to do some more tonight, if I can drag myself away from playing GT5 that is! Progress is slow :)
 
Guessing the top just comes off with a bolt or a clamp of some sort. One could probably develop a type of tray\U shaped enclose on the sides for the top to sit in so a clamp\nut\screw wouldnt be needed where you could just lift up on it to take it apart.
 
Spagetti69
I was thinking about them rocker type chairs.
They any good?

I thought maybe you would rock backward when braking.

Anyone else use one.
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ive got an ak rocker(http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/stores/sport-goods/ak-rocker-100-black.jpg). bought it about 2 years ago. its pretty comfortable what it lacks in padding it makes up in holding your body. it doesn't rock for me because i bought some 99 cent door stops and wedged them under the rockers. works great for me.
 
I assembled each right and left leg section with nails and glue.
The cross bar where the steering wheel mounts was placed on the leg section.
I drilled holes though the cross bar and leg below it and then used bolts and wing nuts dropped into the holes to make it solid.( tightened each time you set it up by hand)
 

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