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Gaming/Office chair with HOTAS mounts - Now with added DIY!
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 3:21 pm
by smartroad
Does anyone know if such a thing exists? Basically I want an office type chair that has the ability to take a HOTAS. Seen a few racing car but they are static I need it to function as an office chair when not gaming.
Just wondering if anyone knows of one?
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Re: Gaming/Office chair with HOTAS mounts?
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 3:29 pm
by Walter
smartroad wrote:Does anyone know if such a thing exists? Basically I want an office type chair that has the ability to take a HOTAS. Seen a few racing car but they are static I need it to function as an office chair when not gaming.
Just wondering if anyone knows of one?
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... light=vesa
Re: Gaming/Office chair with HOTAS mounts?
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 6:15 pm
by smartroad
Walter wrote:https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=12745&highlight=vesa
Cheers for the link
I have decided to go my own DIY route. My current chair doesn't fit under my desk due to its unnecessarily big arms. They are needed to hold the back rest on. So I am taking them off, replacing them with some MDF equivalents that also allow me to slide in a 'shelf' to hold my HOTAS and my custom keypad, using some 3D printed components as brackets. The shelf is removable (otherwise I couldn't get out of the chair unless I was some sort of contortionist!) and should allow my chair to fit under the desk as well
Re: Gaming/Office chair with HOTAS mounts?
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 6:24 pm
by Xebeth
smartroad wrote:Walter wrote:https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=12745&highlight=vesa
Cheers for the link
I have decided to go my own DIY route. My current chair doesn't fit under my desk due to its unnecessarily big arms. They are needed to hold the back rest on. So I am taking them off, replacing them with some MDF equivalents that also allow me to slide in a 'shelf' to hold my HOTAS and my custom keypad, using some 3D printed components as brackets. The shelf is removable (otherwise I couldn't get out of the chair unless I was some sort of contortionist!) and should allow my chair to fit under the desk as well
Pics or it didn't happen
Re: Gaming/Office chair with HOTAS mounts?
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 7:02 pm
by smartroad
Well currently it hasn't happened lol
Printer has started its first print, about 10hours for this one and another 6 for the second print.
Tomorrow I will be cutting out the MDF and hopefully should have it together by tomorrow eve
Re: Gaming/Office chair with HOTAS mounts?
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 10:23 pm
by evovi
I use two fold away tables at the side of my chair for my x52 keyboard slap bang in front - nice relaxed comfy position, have been known to fall asleep perusing the bulletin board before now tho
Re: Gaming/Office chair with HOTAS mounts?
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 12:21 pm
by Brsingr
hmmm, tempting to do this...ONLY after i get new furniture lol.....as it is i barely have any room on my desk for my laptop plus all the damn cables running to and fro (headset, adjustable cooling pad, mmo gaming mouse (LOVE the extra buttons for everything, hdmi cable for my 2nd monitor to the left of my laptop on a tiny curved piece of furniture lol, xbox 360 controller adaptor, and finally my x52 pro
)and then my portable speak just behind my laptop setup lol
Re: Gaming/Office chair with HOTAS mounts?
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 1:58 pm
by smartroad
Re: Gaming/Office chair with HOTAS mounts - Now with added DIY!
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 5:17 pm
by smartroad
Re: Gaming/Office chair with HOTAS mounts - Now with added DIY!
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 5:34 pm
by Loriath
Isn't that a little awkward to get in and out of? Or are you channeling your inner Bo Duke of Dukes of Hazzard fame?
Nice work. I have been thinking more and more about how I want to do mine, and I am formulating a plan. Just need to get off my arse and do it.