Well after 2 years of enjoying my first build the time was right to try something new. Santa had delivered a shiny new Rift VR CV1 early in December so with a renewed love of sim racing I started gathering some parts and dreaming up some ideas to freshen up the rig. My drives are still as good as the day they arrived and the platform made solely from aluminium chequer plate was in essence not such a bad idea. However, there was a couple of issues. Having the drives mounted vertically as they were up front and out in the open made it a little dangerous for anyone who got too close and my hand was constantly on the E-stop every time a little person was in the seat. Also, the drives are noisy little buggers when being worked hard round the Nurburgring, Laguna Seca or Brands. With this in mind my primary aims are to make the rig safe for little people both in and out the seat and somehow reduce the noise levels.
Here is a pic of the old rig before tear down.
My first aim is to reposition the motors out of harms way. I toyed with several concepts but without wanting to change everything my only option seemed to be mounting the motors in a horizontal plane under the upper deck and creating a linkage system to obtain the vertical movement. I was fortunate enough to aquire 4 nearly new linear bearing rails and 8 heavy duty linear slide bearings. And so it begins...
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