Mike,
Whatever will get the job done - remember that perfection is the enemy of good enough. To liberally paraphrase Monty Python's Holy Grail, ".. It's only a mockup."
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Mike,
Whatever will get the job done - remember that perfection is the enemy of good enough. To liberally paraphrase Monty Python's Holy Grail, ".. It's only a mockup."
Mike: Use PVC pipe and fittings to give the basic structure and cardboard and poster board where you need "solid surfaces" As for the seat, some cut up scrap lumber as necessary and if you make the seat back seperate, you could use a couple of bolts to hinge the back and bottom to work on the required angles. If you set the mock-up on the floor, you can leave the seat unattached and use some scrap blocks to support off the floor and at the correct height until you get it tuned in just like you need it.
I worked for both my fiancee and myself. I'm 165 lbs and she's maybe 180 lbs. Then again, our mockup was just intended to sit on the floor and be used for ingress/egress experiments and instrument panel layout, etc. For the seats, we used a standard "conference" chair with padding glued on to the appropriate thickness and the base was simply a milk crate cut to the correct height. Not the prettiest mockup ever but it worked for our purposes.
If I was in Arizona it wouldn't bother me. It is ridiculously humid here.
A bit of an update - I got some 1" white foam insulation from Menards for $8/sheet (1/2 what the pink stuff is & the pink was all tongue & groove).
I was initially going to clamp & glue it with construction adhesive, but my clamps are too short & I was too cheap to pay $39.99 each to buy longer ones, so I tried screwing a couple pieces together with 3" deck screws - it works pretty good, and I can take it apart if I want to change something. Using a carpenter's knife & my drywall square to score the foam, then snapping it just like drywall.
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