Playseat Challenge Shifter Mount

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I decided a Logitech shifter mount on Thingiverse was not good enough for me, so I made my own in Fusion 360. Note that I have only tested the right-hand version of this mount, but I think the left-hand version will work just fine. All I did was mirror all of the components. There are three parts needed to print this mount; the inside bracket, outside bracket and the surface you attach the shifter to. The surface is designed for the Logitech G27 shifter, and I believe it should also work with other similar shifters. I only have the G27 to test. *Update 6/26/2019* I confirmed that this works just fine with the Thrustmaster TH8A shifter using the provided clamp. It's secure enough, and positioned well enough, that I'm not going to bother making and reprinting a hard-mount plate for it. Much better shifter than the G27/G29/G920 variants by the way. There were a few main goals for the usefulness of the mount: 1. Securely mounted without any worry of it shifting 2. Extends back towards the seated position to reduce the reach needed to the shifter and buttons, and to make it feel more natural. If the shifter is too far back, the velcro straps start to get in the way. 3. Clear the wheel mount tubing latch The outside bracket and surface are in 2 pieces for a couple reasons: 1. Hopefully can be printed on printers with a smaller build volume. If it were a one-piece assembly, it would not fit on the print bed of my Qidi Tech 1. In 2 pieces, it fits with plenty of extra space. I could make the shifter surface a good deal larger. 2. Allow the design of surfaces for other shifters or peripherals so you can easily attach them to this mount. ## Assembly I used red MatterHackers PLA Pro to print this, with print settings as described in the 'Print Settings' section. It is plenty strong with minimal flex. I don't expect it will break easily without a straight up karate chop. I think this would also print great in PETG. If printing in ABS, you may want to increase the size very slightly to ensure you can get the nuts into their recesses and so the brackets fit around the tubing. ### Inside Bracket I printed this with the tubing cutout towards the print bed, using supports under the tubing cutout. This ensures the outside fillet is smooth. ### Outside Bracket I suggest printing this as it imports into your slicer with the base on the print bed to ensure strength where the bracket attaches to the surface. I used supports for the horizontal part of the tubing cutout until the angle reaches near 45 degrees. I also used supports in all of the holes, but it may not be necessary. Finally, I used supports in the nut countersinks. ### Surface I printed this with the top of the surface on the print bed. You could print it the other way, but you will need to support the surface-to-bracket cutout and then it may not fit together well. I only used supports for the countersink for the screws. ## Remix If you want to remix this, ie. to design a surface for a different shifter, you can download the files that Fusion 360 will export here: https://a360.co/2v8bojh ### Notes 1. For some reason, every time I make a change to this design, I need to execute the Combine-Cut functions again for the part<>Screw_Hole_Tools before exporting to STL. I'm not sure why, but the countersink holes always disappear on me. 2. It's best if you properly roll back history to the component on which you're working, and only edit the 'Right' components. This will ensure changes propagate to the 'Left' versions, as well as the 'Print_Bodies' component, of which you use to export the bodies for proper orientation on your print bed. 3. The majority of the model is parametric. I tried to describe each parameter well, but you may need to jump around to through the sketches and features to find the correct ones to change.