Virpil Mongoose T50 Flight Stick DIY Mount

[ST_Nooney]

If anyone has bought themselves a Virpil T50 base as I did, and (1) seen that Virpil are always out of stock on there base brackets or (2) seen the price of some of the manufactures base brackets, well it's a fairly easy process to make your own.

Parts List

Approx' 2 foot of 2" x 4" planed timber

MDF

1 x Right angled bracket (Long enough to fit over the top of your desk)

2 x M6 100mm cap head bolts.

2 x M6 nuts and washers

4 x M4 bolts and washers for attaching base plate to MDF

1 x Bessey 25 mm stroke push pull clamp

1 x optional camera monopod for extra support (7 Day Shop sell them around £7)

I decided to make my own due to the reasons listed above, and as the chippies amongst us will see I am no woodworker, but necessity is the mother of invention.

The monopod was one I had were the head bolt had broken off so I adapted it as a support, the 7 D.S one fitted the bill in that it had 4 holes in the base that all I had to do was drill it out and put 4 M4 bolts through (I suppose the centre one would have been just as good but I had the M4's in the tool bag so used them).

 

The monopod is now just a push fit onto the adaptor as a support, if I need the desk I just pull it off the adaptor and release the Bessey in seconds and have a free desk space, the same go's for the throttle unit.

 

Some pictures included to see the finished support, it works fine and is solid, in fact so good I shot Zoo down twice in my first flight using it lol.

 

Total cost was around £30 and the most expensive bit was the Bessey at £27 so saved a lot of money doing it myself.

 

I took the base plate off the T50 and the M4 cap heads replaced with 16mm M4 cap heads going straight through the MDF and I added some metal strips underneath just for extra security, the same base would also do for a Warthog (my Virpil replaced), obviously with different hole placement.

So save yourself some money to spend on collector aircraft and build your own :)

[CUJO_1970]

Cool - but I would replace the MDF with Maple or Walnut.

[WWChunk]

Nice work! I bought their mounts for the stick and throttle, but that’s neat!

[ST_Nooney]

8 hours ago, WWChunk said:

Nice work! I bought their mounts for the stick and throttle, but that’s neat!

Being honest Chunk I would have bought them too,  only 50 euros, but they never have them in stock, they sell out in seconds once they do a order run, I was lucky to get the stick base and it was the last one I think, I want one of their sticks and I wouldn't mind buying a few of there bases so I have them here in the UK if anyone wants to buy them and fed up waiting for a manufacture run.

But like I said I'm no woodworker and only made this because I wasn't paying monstertech prices I think their mount worked out at £120.

[WWChunk]

You are 100% correct about that Nooney. They have a pretty significant supply problem, and you solved it on your own!