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B-17 Throttle Assembly for Honeycomb Bravo

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My father requested a B-17 throttle assembly for his flight sims.  I took a trip to the air museum and took some photos.   They wouldn't let me in the cockpit to measure, but I completed my second revision of the model before my father moved.  I've not continued work on this since, and he's not expressed interest again.  I hope someone finds this model useful and works it out.  I had a lot of fun on this.  Any other questions, let me know.

 

Notes regarding where I left off:

  • Because I couldn't measure, some liberties were taken but everything is made relative to each other, to mimic the real throttle.
  • These are simply too long to print in one piece without some serious strength.  They work, and can be printed in one piece.  But, I was going to either shrink them or split them into parts to be assembled after printing.
    • Shrinking would be better, but then the “realism” is no longer accurate to the real deal.  Not sure which way I would have gone here, keep the accuracy or make it more user-friendly for the sim.
  • I hollowed out some parts to save plastic, but this makes them difficult to print.  Not sure if I would have filled them back in or not.
  • The fitment for the bravo is right.  But the retention clips seem to break depending on printing orientation (layer line direction).  I was debating removing the clips all together.

*Originally modeled in Fusion.

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