Leif
Elite Veteran
Location: Oxford, PA - USA
| orlee,
I don't think it would be a problem for "pinch" pilots, unless you're used to putting your pinch fingers below the knurled parts of the nut.
I ground down the lower nut so that I get the shortest stick length possible, since I use thumbs only and like a short stick. For those who like the pinch method, you would probably be using a longer stick length. This would mean you wouldn't grind the lower nut as small.
TMoore,
It feels great. It rides very smoothly, since the bell actually rides against the inner ring of the gimball assembly. A machined version made from Delrin would probably be nicer. I offered the design to Augusto at Carbon Extreme, but they didn't think the market was big enough to tool up and make them. Can't think the patent would be worth much to anybody except the radio manufacturers (if they decide to make this a standard radio feature). After all, there's still the ring design as an alternative.
darkfa8,
Everything has a cost... I priced this as if you were going to go out and buy the parts new (which of course I did not). I could have reduced the cost to essentially zero if I used standard M3 nuts to hold this thing on instead of grinding down a spare knurled nut. The ring design works, and has been published in several versions. This is just another way to get the same functionality.
Leif |
