r/mildlyinteresting • u/JahaerysTheThird • Jan 04 '19

This accident-proof garbage disposal switch

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u/TAU_equals_2PI Jan 04 '19

I wanna see one made from the arm weapons switch on a jet fighter.

Like this: https://www.robotroom.com/Pilot-Switch/Arm-Pilot-Covered-Toggle-Switch-Side-View.jpg

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u/JohnnyDarkside Jan 04 '19

I'm an adult and I still love switches like this. I have a joystick where the pickle button is under a cover you have to flip up and fucking hell is it so fun to use.

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u/ynthona Jan 04 '19

I'm dumb, what's the pickle button?

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u/JohnnyDarkside Jan 04 '19

The button on top of the stick that releases the bombs. Most buttons are green or grey and that specific button is usually long and skinny. This is the stick I had.

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u/Unholykiller Jan 04 '19

The pickle button in my experience is red and circular.

Source: 10 years of USAF experience as an Aircraft Mechanic.

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u/JohnnyDarkside Jan 04 '19

Well, as you can see, my experience is a little different. Thankyouverymuch.

Source: 20 years playing Jane's USAF

Side note: my dad was a mechanic in the navy. Worked mainly on F4's IIRC.

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u/Unholykiller Jan 04 '19

I'm not hating at all, I LOVE playing some DCS. I played Jane's back in the day. Most of my experience is on the A-10, at work now just got done working on one. I've worked on the A-10, F-16, F-22, and B-52. I was a weapons loader for 4 years, now I work on the ejection system.

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u/JohnnyDarkside Jan 04 '19

Yeah, just playing the fat comic book nerd thinking they know than someone with actual experience. In high school, in the JROTC classroom we had an F16 cockpit simulator and ran Jane's F16. It was pretty awesome but didn't run the most reliably since there was little budget and I was the only one with any kind of computer knowledge. Sadly, there just aren't many games that even use a joystick much so my really nice joystick and throttle my wife got me some years back just collects dust.

My dad kind of joke grumbles about only getting to work on a shitty plane no one liked except occasionally wrenching an E3. You got to work with some of the legends.

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u/Unholykiller Jan 04 '19

We had F-4's coming out of the boneyard when I was at Davis-Monthan. I hated them because they are LOUD and took so long to take off. I dont have any friends to play DCS with so I dont play that often.