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B737-300 Original Throttle Quadrant ordered

Once a while i come along the <http://www.oncealoft.com/> website. So it happened yesterday and to my surprise i saw that Nick has an original 737 TQ to offer. After writing some emails and paypal activities the TQ is ordered and will be shipped to Germany in the next days. I plan to refurbish the TQ as good as possible and install full motorization. I know that there are some guys out there who did this already and i plan to get in contact with the. By the way – the TQ was taken out of N334SW also known as “Shamu One”. See a picture of that beauty below.

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MCP V2 – My new Mode Control Panel and how it was done…

Of course when you do have your first MCP you are very happy. But as the time goes by you find more and more things which are are not satisfying. As you can see in an older post, the MCP Ver 1 was based on a piece of MDF material for stabilization. The LEDs for the mode selection have not been placed on the push buttons but above or next to them. No FLT intv or SPD intv buttoms were available. But the thing which was most annoying was the way the cables have been organized. Totally chaotic and a lot of hot glue was applied to provide some stability for the soldering points.Read more on the related page