Pedals adjustable base question help !

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firasf1dream
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Pedals adjustable base question help !

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hello guys,
i hope you all having a good day

well i don't know if this is the right section for this question anyway what i am trying to do is adjustable base pedals for my simulator cockpit depending on the length of the driver's legs, i will be controlling the movement electrically with a stepper or some sort of electric motor 12V so i need please help with how to make that base. I thought about gears but i need something more simple so any idea which can help ?
so far i couldn't find a way :S

thanks in advance for all the help :)

Greg Locock
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firasf1dream
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Greg Locock wrote:Here's the pro solution

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/OTAwWDE2MDA=/ ... H/$_35.JPG
thanks for the help but i can't tell what is it ? can you give me please more info about it ?

Greg Locock
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Ford Territory adjustable pedal box, mostly made of plastic, including the brake pedal. Neat bit of kit ignored by 99% of customers who had it.

firasf1dream
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Greg Locock wrote:Ford Territory adjustable pedal box, mostly made of plastic, including the brake pedal. Neat bit of kit ignored by 99% of customers who had it.
ah ok but i can't tell how this is adjustable ? what i am trying to do is something similar (as a base) to the picture below but i want to control it by a stepper or motor 12V and make it move forward and back so i need help to do such a system please

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l196/ ... n1nfgg.jpg

Greg Locock
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you push a switch, it moves. I am 99.9% certain an electric motor is involved. Well you've got a picture of what you want, where's the problem? Grab the motor/gearbox/worm/nut assembly out of an electric seat and you are good to go.

firasf1dream
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Greg Locock wrote:you push a switch, it moves. I am 99.9% certain an electric motor is involved. Well you've got a picture of what you want, where's the problem? Grab the motor/gearbox/worm/nut assembly out of an electric seat and you are good to go.
what picture ?!
this doesnt help but i was searching i found a way that can help which is "Motorized Dolly for camera"

Greg Locock
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You posted a picture of what you want. Add the motor and worm assy from a car's seat and it'll move forwards and backwards.

Or just find a sporty looking seat with electric fore/aft at a wreckers and sit on that.

Cold Fussion
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It seems overly complicated to have electronically adjustable pedals for a sim setup, why not just the pedal box base on some rails and slide it manually and lock it into place?

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Cold Fussion wrote:It seems overly complicated to have electronically adjustable pedals for a sim setup, why not just the pedal box base on some rails and slide it manually and lock it into place?
i thought about that before but no, because i am making F1 cockpit so i need something easy
well what i managed to think about is :
i will be using this Stepper http://www.ekt2.com/products/productdet ... 7f10e61358

i will put a rubber around a metal disk and put it on the shaft of the stepper and after i will put a metallic base on which sits the pedals and below there is rails on which this base is connected and can slid and i will put the stepper under it so after the stepper turn there is friction between the rubber and the base and it moves forward or back :D
Sounds good ?

Cold Fussion
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Do you mean you're make a full monocoque? If so you can just attach a cable to the base or just make a cut in the top of the monocoque so you can get access to the pedal box. This is how it we would do it on an F-SAE car, unless you want to make easy presets for different people then I don't see the gain in complicating it this much.

firasf1dream
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Cold Fussion wrote:Do you mean you're make a full monocoque? If so you can just attach a cable to the base or just make a cut in the top of the monocoque so you can get access to the pedal box. This is how it we would do it on an F-SAE car, unless you want to make easy presets for different people then I don't see the gain in complicating it this much.
yes a full monocoque
i am making a cool and easy way of adjusting the pedals
so far the method that i posted in the reply before this would be the one for now