X-55 Rhino HOTAS adapter plates for SVARTÅSEN Laptop stands

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This is completely based off an excellent mounting plate design for the X-52s. I just adapted the mounting plates for the X-55 Rhino. All credit to http://www.thingiverse.com/GMBridge and see his original X-52 plate design here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1017785 Adapter plates & connectors to mount a X55 Rhino HOTAS (http://www.saitek.com/uk/prod/x55.html) to SVARTÅSEN Laptop stands (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40242177/). Might work for other HOTAS if they have the same mounting holes, or there are tinkercad links below to customize these. Includes the plates, some push pins to clip the plate to the laptop stand. I connected the X-55 to the mounting plate using eight 3" long 1/4 inch carriage bolts with wing nuts. You will need a large printing plate as these plates are 7"x9". I used a i3Mega-Prusa from 3DStuffmaker, PLA @ 0.4mm layers w/ 40% infill and 3 solid top and bottom layers for strength. Technically Since both the X-55 Throttle and Joystick have the same orientation and hole pattern on the X-55 Rhino it might be best to just print two of the Joystick Plates. This keeps the feet of the laptop stand in the same orientation for both modules, as there are guide slots and holes in the laptop stand and the plate that determine orientation. If you would like to modify this design, feel free to do so:https://www.tinkercad.com/things/0vDojyYdg3s-x55-hotas-joystick-mounting-platehttps://www.tinkercad.com/things/1eRPQBdHL8w-x55-hotas-throttle-mounting-plate And the push-clip design bby GMBridge:https://www.tinkercad.com/things/jsnwV3lncTR-hotas-push-clip Instructions Print (as oriented) 1 each of the adapter plates (or 2 Joystick plates will work fine and keep stand orientation the same), 10 of the push clips (5 per plate) to mount plate to laptop stand.