Hello folks,I am pretty much sure many people out there use these, and I myself am using two of them, for a quad-engine configuration.Now, it has always bothered me that I can't push forward but actually have to pull them up or rather push up by deforming my hand.Anyway, came up with the idea to swivel the throttle 45degrees forward and already got myself a wooden block in the appropriate size and angle to achieve that.But my problem is rather how to fixate the throttle on that block of wood, cuz drilling through it is rather unprecise (I tried)... and the screw mechanism of Saitek makes that really easy.So I came up with the idea of getting a thin wooden plate - fixating the throttles on it, then screwing the plate into the wooden triangle box. The wooden plate should obviously be bigger than the throttle so I can screw it in later.All in all, not the nicest thing, but, should be functional enough.While I have my own solution, I would totally appreciate if someone already tried a similar thing, and would share a thought or an idea!

Forgive me if your already aware but you know that there are two positions that the quadrant can be postioned in. I swapped it over from the default position and I find this far more realistic and as you have said, now i can push rather than pull.

Yes, I am aware that there are virtually 4 positions you can screw it in. I also right now have it on the top side of the holder, with the buttons in front. I also tried 90degrees forward, meaning buttons on top, so you push forward and down, but that's unrealistical too.The most realistical position would be at 45degrees, which would give you a nice travel back and front.

Yeh that would be ideal. I'm afraid i'm no architect so I'll let somone who won't mess it up help you. Good luck!

I''ve actually had mine at 45 degrees for several years without giving it much thought of accomplishment.I have an old scratched-up executive style desk and after many, many variations of mounting the throttles, I finally used wood screws to secure the throttle plates (at and angle) to the upper right-hand drawer face.First, with the clamp plates removed from the throttles, I used good sticky packing tape and taped the two throttles cases together, taping just the back and the bottom of the throttles. Then, I secured the throttles to the top of the clamp plates with the shorter side of the two clamp plates extending down and facing furthest away from me (toward the front of the desk). The throttle clamp plates (without the big plastic screws) are laid-over the top edge of the drawer, tilting 45 degress foward, fitting somewhat naturally with the shorter side of the clamp plates inside the drawer, but not really secured. I then drilled two small holes and wood-screwed the front of the clamp plates to the upper lip of the drawar face. Then I simply close the drawer as far as I can, until the back of the throttle case hits the front edge of the desk. I then use one of the large plastic screws and jam it under the drawer to keep the drawer itself from moving. I simply pull out the big plastic screw from under the drawer to gain full access to the drawer.Now if I could just keep my kids from snaching my yellow sticky pads out of my throttle drawer, I would be all set!

Al - congrats, you just became my hero, lol! Good system if it works for you, gotta work on those kids though!In all seriousness though, I am trying to accomplish that without having to tape them together and I want it to look decent, meaning more or less like a real thing (thus wooden block, which will be painted when I have the system up and running).The clamps are here just for the sake of mounting it to the table. And I want to keep them, because at times I move or remove the quadrant, and this has to happen in mere seconds.

Take a look at this. (Sorry for the mess!). I have a drawer on the right side of my desk about 3" deep and I just use a clamp to hold my assembly to the front vertical face.Above you see the vertical piece is longer than the 2 quads, so my hand clamp grabs here to hold against the drawer frontAbove you see the lever knobs are about 3" higher than the desktop level. I find that my hand reaches that easily.scott s..

Scott, russian solution, but hey, if it's working! On the other hand, this is how I'm currently solving it. It's not yet done, I currently prepared the block and the plate, but still have to finish cut it (we'll see if its possible), and then paint it in black. But here are couple of pics:The plate has been mounted on top of the block.Drilled the canal for the cable.A closer look...Getting there:

You're putting some work into it! But when you are done, I can say that having the quads on a 45 angle makes it much nicer.scott s..

Thanks a lot!

And so I finalized it - it has been much more work than I previously anticipated, but I think it's gonna be worth it!Right now, I'm thinking if to cut my tableso I can fit the quadrant "in the table", but I don't think it's gonna be necessary.Also can be mounted on top or below. I prefer second...