can still see some of those boats sitting there to this day craziness
@brendan20489 күн бұрын
Thanks for blazing this trail. I decided to only try pinching together 3 coils of each spring with small zip ties on each spring. This reduced the spring strength, making the yoke much smoother and easier to slide. I left the hardware otherwise unchanged. So far, so good with my testing. Thanks again!
@Retnavycpo28 күн бұрын
Paul, I am trying to reach you because I just ordered a DOF H6, and would greatly appreciate more information about swapping out the motors for the Premium Planetary Gear motors you mentioned? I would like to order some and need the model# if you can provide? I also am planning on installing a swivel base for the seat as you did. Pete
@markyoung9040Ай бұрын
I tried your mod and it works quite well, but I didn’t like that the springs rattles and scraped on the metal shaft. What I did was make my own bumpers with 1cm length of 15mm Pushfit tubing - it’s has the perfect internal diameter for the shaft and, with a small amount of filing, fits nice and snug inside the spring. Best of both worlds 😊
@glenlockyer775Ай бұрын
Will you look at that... the cowes floating bridge...WORKING!
@Crocs4catsАй бұрын
The good ole days 🥹
@LouiethePilot-2LearnАй бұрын
That looks fun! 😂
@LouiethePilot-2LearnАй бұрын
Thank you!
@beachley01Ай бұрын
Whats brown and smelly and comes out of cows backwards......... the Isle of Wight ferry.
@ShorebasePaulАй бұрын
even worse nowadays.... it comes out forwards as well.......:<)
@southerneruk2 ай бұрын
I work on the Cows Castle as a deck boy, it was my first job on leaving school in 1972, left on the Friday at 14-40pm and by 5am I was working on that Cows Castle, got on well with all the deck hands, remember Roy Baker he was our Bosun, joined them in July and left in late Sept to go deep sea
@ShorebasePaulАй бұрын
I often wonder if I'd lived on the Coast if my career had been different. My annual holidays always left me envious of any jobs connected with ships and boats, but I was born a hundred miles inland, so I spent most of my life as a boring telephone engineer (hence the dial avatar :<)
@southernerukАй бұрын
@@ShorebasePaul Well don't it is a hard life, and then you get kick about by the government taking your job away so you have nothing but poor paid jobs, this is what happen in my city when Thatcher became PM, Southampton was one of the world major ports, it employed thousands of seamen and more in the shipyards, docks there was over 100,000 people employed in this industry, more than the population of this city, you look at it now, it is counted in the hundreds and the city as grown to just over 1/4 million, and you be lucky if you get a job let alone on the water
@ShorebasePaulАй бұрын
Yes, 'The Grass is always Greener' whenever you look back on 'what might have been'. Back in the 1960's when I left school I nearly applied to be a 'Navigating Officer Cadet' with the P&O when they were a respected company. I chickened out though, and joined the GPO as a Telephone Engineer. So when the P&O recently sacked all of their UK crews on their Ferries, I was even more amazed than most people at how crap the firm had become.
@AdrienJarthon2 ай бұрын
That's a great and easy fix indeed, though I agree with @TWOKDOK1 the nylon washers are here for a reason (mostly contact wear and noise). So in my case I put them in the drill and reduced their diameter with a file :) I reduce the diameter from 27mm to ~23mm and they can now travel freely through the middle detent groove. I had to remove the black rubber and foam pads first to easily file the white tefflon part, and then I sticked it again on the tefflon and cut the part that was going outside the tefflon. It works pretty great now :)
@HackMyWayOut2 ай бұрын
That's not a carrier aircraft dude... :D
@ShorebasePaul2 ай бұрын
...aha, you recognised the technique.... 🙂
@specterclan51602 ай бұрын
How to take the top off the yoke. I cannot get the part of the top near the yoke
@lautarogatti5 күн бұрын
Did you figured it out?
@aswclassicsiow85882 ай бұрын
Born and bred on Island, I remember these ferries, when lorries had to reverse on, cars drove on up one side and there was a turntable at the rear then drove down the other side, and the ferry used to stop at West Cowes before crossing to East Cowes, the good old days
@pi.actual2 ай бұрын
I was at the flight sim expo in Las Vegas last week and there were a number of Velocity One flight yokes set up and I noticed they did not have the strong detent or the stickiness that is present in the older models. I believe they must have made some improvements to the design. I have the 3D printed support rollers on mine and they do work as well. About a year ago I tried to do a mod similar to yours but rather than remove the washers I used string tie to collapse two coils of the spring effectively making it slightly shorter and weaker.
@chaadlosan2 ай бұрын
I just got one, a new unit, and have no center detent at all. I wonder if my internals are different.
@WhiteHawk772 ай бұрын
Cheers for the video. I don’t have this yoke but the low end quality of it and having to do mods to improve it reminds me so much of the Saitek/Logitech which I had. Never again will I ever buy the cheap stuff, it’s simply not worth it for the money and you end up paying more in the long run by replacing them with something much better straight off the bat. FFB is in my near future and I can’t wait to not have to deal with rubbish springs, overly strong centre detents that don’t move with trimming the aircraft and stiction.
@anthonymark3771Ай бұрын
Sorry to disagree but this yoke is great. And not everyone has unlimited funds to buy the latest and greatest. But the Velocity One has so many features compared to every other yoke and throttle set, that doing miner mods to make it work even better, puts this yoke up with the best. As you said, you don’t have it so you have no idea how good and feature rich this device is!
@WhiteHawk77Ай бұрын
@@anthonymark3771 First up, anything like this that needs mods to fix issues obviously isn’t great, and the level of mods that would be really needed to make this a GREAT flight sim yoke would be expensive enough you might as well get something else in the first place. Up with the best? That’s hilarious, you should go on stage with jokes like that and having extra cheap switch’s and dials etc which you can get separately doesn’t excuse its main purpose sucking even with mods. No, the problem isn’t that I haven’t tried this one, it’s that YOU haven’t tried anything better, were as I have had experience of cheap crap yokes like this and a load of other cheap plastic controls AND of better options and I’ll never go back to this kind of garbage. I’ve wasted enough money on them and I’ve also done mods to them as well to remove too strong detents, stiction and other issues, which improved them sure, but it’s like putting lipstick on a pig, it still performs like dirt compared to other options and I’ve seen that first hand a number of times now. As per usual with you people you bring up not being able to afford better options as if that changes the quality difference and as if thats part of your attack on my comment, as if I have something against anyone who’s poor, because the reality is you would have to be pretty poor to not be able to afford something better than this. You don’t need unlimited funds or even many funds to manage that, and if you are actually really into flight simulation you will find the money and anyone poor enough that can’t find it probably has more important things to worry about and isn’t into flight sims which let’s face it, isn’t that cheap of a hobby. I don’t even make much money myself, but that’s actually more reason to pay less in the long run than waste any more money on something that doesn’t perform its duties well and I’m unhappy with and so ends up getting replaced eventually which means more money spent, that’s my point. But you carry on lying to yourself it’s better than it is, I’ve seen plenty of people with your delusions before when they won’t or can’t spend the extra so they go defensive on their purchase decisions. But I’ve also seen a rare few that when they do wake up and get something better they realise how wrong they were, pretty recently actually.
@markfox15452 ай бұрын
Gosh, short AND pointless. That's a win win.
@ShorebasePaul2 ай бұрын
The object of the video was to show the fleeting glimpse of a deer running across the road. If it was any longer people might get bored....
@intwist3 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing this Paul, about to open mine up - was searching for a fix for this, glad I found your video! Was going to order the clamp too but no physical orders are being taken now, just the 3d files. Bummer. Thanks again!
@wesleyvandenakker87723 ай бұрын
For what I understood the physical version will be available again in a couple of weeks
@Danno19833 ай бұрын
Wonderful memories cheers on living on the island
@Danno19833 ай бұрын
1 of the Jenny boats in view
@Danno19833 ай бұрын
@Paul u mind if I share wiv Solent Ships channel plz many thanks
@ShorebasePaul3 ай бұрын
No problem Danno, share away....
@Danno19833 ай бұрын
@@ShorebasePaul thanx @ShorebasePaul many many thanx much appreciated 👍👍
@Danno19833 ай бұрын
@@ShorebasePaulr u a subscriber of Solent Ships ud b made v Welcome
@theherbalist19783 ай бұрын
Just tested and works great! Thanks.
@PRIME31703 ай бұрын
Brilliant, well done. This is an issue with controlling the aircraft during landing so making this mod is a great improvement. Thank you!
@gtc19614 ай бұрын
The thing about this is that on a real plane, the yoke will tend to want to center the faster you're flying. It's like a natural detent. The wind over the elevators makes them want to go neutral at high speeds. During landing it's much less of an issue. If you find the tension to high to maintain a certain position of the yoke, you could always use trim like we do in real planes. I use trim constantly. That being said.....I have this on order so you might be right and this could be a great mod...I will see what it feels like but I'll bet even without the mod it's going to be an enormous improvement over my old CH Yoke and Rudder pedals!
@williamwhite194 ай бұрын
Seems extremely noisy
@Bbuzz83934 ай бұрын
Genious!! Thanks for the effort.
@robertgoh74204 ай бұрын
The early days before the ferries got heightened stretched and upper car deck added.
@robertgoh74204 ай бұрын
Which red funnel ferry have you boarded?
@ShorebasePaul4 ай бұрын
I can't remember the individual name of the Ferry Robert, it was just the Cowes to Southampton Car Ferry...
@robertgoh74204 ай бұрын
I think it's Red Osprey
@patrickcallaghan83264 ай бұрын
How is your mod working now that you have Kevin's mod. I have one ordered but am thinking of trying your mod out. Except for the pitch problems I really love my yoke.
@ShorebasePaul4 ай бұрын
Kevin's mod arrived several weeks ago and I fitted it straight away. It has completed the transition, making the pitch axis wonderfully smooth, even when holding just one side of the yoke. I'd say it's now actually better than my Honecomb Alpha, being much lighter, wnd with no centre detent at all.
@patrickcallaghan83264 ай бұрын
@@ShorebasePaul So you did leave the spring pads out after you added Kevin's mod? Thanks for the info.
@ShorebasePaul4 ай бұрын
Yes Patrick, they were preventing one spring from gradually taking over from the other. When they're removed, the transition at the centre is much more seamless.
@patrickcallaghan83264 ай бұрын
@@ShorebasePaul Thank you.
@WHBVERDE694 ай бұрын
Where do I find this mod?
@midnight72974 ай бұрын
I see you have H6 too. If you had to give up the platform motion or the FF which would it be? (I have a GT Omega Prime and plan on adding RSMega+ motion to it but considering options of this or the FFBeast)
@ShorebasePaul4 ай бұрын
A tricky question to answer.... I guess it would reluctantly be the FF, because that's only for joystick aircraft and helicopters, whereas the DOF platform gives me immersion in all aircraft and driving sims too (and rollercoaster etc). I've 'downgraded' my H6 back to an H3 again since doing this video, because I find it gives virtually the same overall impression of movement but is much easier to climb aboard, without the 6 DOF 'turrets' restricting side to side and rearward adjustments.
@LimitlessHorizonVRSimrigs3 ай бұрын
Mate I'm running a full motion system from Eracing, the stall buffet, positive/negative G feelings, engine vibration not to mention pitch, roll and heave are beyond words. I'm on the waiting list for the VPForce, my number gets called in a few weeks so I'll also be able to provide some feedback. RSMega all the way 😊
@pierre9jean4 ай бұрын
I cut some of my springs because of the stiffness,it’s okay now but i wish i knew about your method before. Do you know where i can buy new springs for the yoke?
@adwbkk4 ай бұрын
Brilliant! A simple, effective and easy fix to a real problem. Well done that man!
@raymondyee20085 ай бұрын
So how does it compare with that Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback joystick?
@ShorebasePaul5 ай бұрын
It's in a completely different league Raymond. The forces are musc stronger and more detailed. I still have my trusty Sidewinder Pro, a very well made and much underated joystick, but unfortunately the force feedback no longer works properly with MsFS or XP12. I paid for the third party addon software FsForce, but it just gives a steady rythm of jerks, with no connection to the sims. I tried emailing the author, but never got a reply.
@AlexMartinez-yz3uo5 ай бұрын
Hello, I bought the second velocity one and I have the problem that the X and Y axis function does not show in the calibration. I don't know how to solve it. I tried it on 3 PCs and it doesn't move.
@Sammys-cf7hw4 ай бұрын
Open the velocity one there is magnet simply put it in place it will fix the problem
@petergates79395 ай бұрын
Remember the SRN6 Hovercraft on the same route back in the 70s kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZq7iHR6qNacjs0
@Olafaloofian5 ай бұрын
Great idea for a mod! Have you seen any extra wear and tear since doing this?
@OZ19675 ай бұрын
Hello Paul nice demo, Mine just arrived , did you have to re-assign your button configuration in MSFS or in the VPforce FFB Configurator software? Cheers.
@ShorebasePaul5 ай бұрын
I use the button configuration options in XP12 and MsFS, just like any other joystick. I use the VPForce configurator software to tune the force feedback sttings.
@Danno19835 ай бұрын
Hi can I share this memory wiv @Solent Ships yt channel plz
@ShorebasePaul5 ай бұрын
yes, no problem Danno....
@Danno19835 ай бұрын
@@ShorebasePaul jump aboard lots of different Ships all Shapes n Sizes
@Danno19835 ай бұрын
@@ShorebasePaul thanx v much appreciated 👍⚓
@newman3500sАй бұрын
Brilliant footage. Used to go to Cowes for a pint, just to ride on them. Thanks for uploading this. 👍
@dave-j-k6 ай бұрын
Nice video, I've just ordered an H6.......
@mothmagic16 ай бұрын
I remember those. Why did they take them out of service?
@ShorebasePaul6 ай бұрын
My guess would be capacity. The subsequent Red Jet catamarans had a far greater passenger capacity, and may have been more efficient fuel-wise.
@joshhayes52182 ай бұрын
The shearwater hydrofoils had a capacity of 67 and a service speed on foils of 32.5 knots and a speed of 15 knots could be obtained off foils
@andrewclark863021 күн бұрын
@@ShorebasePaul But mostly the red jets were operating at very light loads, with 30 or 40 passengers on the majority of crossings. The hydrofoils could seat 80, but maybe they used just as much fuel as a red jet. I know the hydrofoils were vastly more economical than the ill fated Cowes Express with its elaborate surface-effect vessel.
@mothmagic16 ай бұрын
I think the new ones are a step backwards in one respect. The passengers can no longer see out of the front.
@UKWMO6 ай бұрын
You have a point. I suppose the interior layout is now very comparable to the interior of a commercial airliner - you can’t see out of the front of those either.
@Uploadvideoschannel6 ай бұрын
how heavy is that thing?
@HolladayAviation6 ай бұрын
I’m going to try this! Thanks!
@motelghost4776 ай бұрын
Can you also just apply the grease directly to the thread (I don't have any of this fancy equipment).
@ShorebasePaul6 ай бұрын
Yes, that's fine. Anything is better than leaving them unlubricated.
@jamesbiggleworth44586 ай бұрын
I have determined the stickiness has nothing to do with the detent stops centring and have undone the mod in this video - restored it to original and to day I have dumped the TB Velocity one and have ordered the honeycomb yoke and quadrant....
I just got one of these and it transformed the yoke. Worth every penny
@swedishguyflies90773 ай бұрын
Right, it's really two different problems. 1) the centering that this video address and then 2) the "stickiness" that the 3D printed mod is addressing.
@jamesbiggleworth44586 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video but unfortunately for me the mod does diddly-squat! (no reflection on your video or effort for posting) I still get the stickiness. I am going to put back the white nylon/plastic spring locators/stops without the black rubber/foam spaces and see how that goes. Of utmost importance is the smoothness of the control! All Turtle Beach can say it that it frees up with use..... I have been using it now for 150 hours of flying by hand and not autopilot, and it is just as sticky as it was new. So how much use does it take to free up - never perhaps. I do not mind the detent as such it is the stickiness where you are trying to finesse a landing by pulling back against the tension which then suddenly lets go and moves too far and the nose of the aircraft goes way up and buggers up the landing! This relatively expensive yoke is crap. I do hope the Honeycomb brand of yoke goes back into production and once again becomes available because I will be dumping the Velocity one yoke and getting the Honeycomb as soon as I can. I suppose if I had a 3D printer I could design and print brackets to hold small bearings inside for the shaft to roll on - I am aware of the ghastly mod to put bearings on the out side of the box.
@ShorebasePaul6 ай бұрын
Coincidentally, I have now also fitted VanDeik's "Ghastly Mod" of the bracket outside of the box with the rubber tyred roller bearings supporting the yoke shaft underneath as it exits the front plastic collar. I have to say that it now works brilliantly. Now that the "sag", caused by the hands resting on the grips and weighting it down slightly is now fully supported by the roller bearings, so that the shaft moves in and out as smoothly as any other yoke that I posess, (an Alpha XPC, a Macbare, and even my Brunner CLS-E !). The combination of his bracket and my removal of the spring stops has made the pitch axis perfectly smooth, with a gradual transition of forward to backward resistance. The roll axis still has a very distinct centre detent, but that is much easier to live with. I agree completely that the standard factory performance of the VelocityOne yoke is almost unusable in respect of the awful pitch axis binding, making final approach and flaring very unpleasant. Amazing really, considering how much effort they've put into the rest of it. It's a similar story (IMHO) with their VelocityOne Joystick too, I find that excellent, in all but one respect, the ridiculously stiff centre detent. Luckilly though, I found a video here on KZbin where the Guy explains a very simople mod of opening the base and either cutting the coil spring or replacing it with a weaker one, (which I did), and that too, is now my best all in one "portable" joystick. (I also have a Virpil and a Rhino FF, which are in a different league altogether, but the VelocityOne is much more compact for portable use.
@garysaunders17145 ай бұрын
Hi Paul great video of the mod, I shall be trying this as it definitely is to abrupt jerky movement landing at this point on the yoke. Please can you tell me if there is a link available to Vans roller mod. Thanks
@ShorebasePaul5 ай бұрын
Yes Gary, it's at www.etsy.com/uk/shop/vanDIJKstuff?ref=l2-about-shopname
@garysaunders17145 ай бұрын
@@ShorebasePaul thanks Paul
@Sammys-cf7hw4 ай бұрын
@@ShorebasePaulyo can you make this mod and sell it I was trying to buy it but it’s sold out
@TWOKDOK16 ай бұрын
Very well put together video and clearly explained. Thank you. That 'detente' at the neutral point is really annoying on landing. This looks like it does the job. However, those Nyon bushes are there for a reason which is to act as a thrust bearing to prevent direct steel-to-plastic contact which is likely to wear the contact point on the travelling arm. Not only that but the collar in the nylon bushes also locates the spring ends radially so that it does not rub on the shaft. I suspect that the plastic on the travelling arm will wear and that the shaft will become scratched making the action less smooth. But time will tell. Perhaps a thin nylon washer to replace both bushes would be a possibility to prevent steel-plastic contact whilst not reducing the improved smoothness allbeit that the potential for shaft scratching / wear would still exist. Thank you for broadcasting this simple mod.
@ShorebasePaul6 ай бұрын
I hear what you're saying, but the collars on the bushes are plastic anyway, and a lot thinner than the central arm, so if there's any plastic to metal wear it would occur with them anyway, (and I doubt if they're available as spares). Also, the shaft is very hard stainless steel and the spings are not (so are softer), so I don't think there will be anyscratches on the shaft from them.
@mjrteks4 ай бұрын
@@ShorebasePaul Para prevenir esse problema, criei umas anilhas, na impressora 3D em TPU e assim, as molas estão sempre centradas e não fazem barulho.
@Sammys-cf7hw4 ай бұрын
@@mjrtekscan you share the 3d printer files ?
@hanskrohn7 ай бұрын
Nice job! I have a P6, recently bought, and I build a square wooden base on casters. On that base I installed two steps, so I can get into the sim. My seat is a NLR flight chair, so flatter than yours and a bit easier to get in… Enjoy your simming experience!
@ShorebasePaul7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the feedback Hans. Actually my setup has another mod to make it easier to climb aboard. The seat swivels round by 90 degrees on an RV swivel base. Much easier for me to get in with my decrepit 70 year old body !
@hanskrohn7 ай бұрын
@@ShorebasePaul for the time being, my stairs solution works for me - I‘m 65 now (but aware of the fact that time does not stand still…). I put a short 360 deg. clip of my setup on my channel.