Sonex Waiex B, Part 37- Remaking the cockpit sides
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- I dont like my cockpit sides so I made new ones. Also positioning items on the firewall so as to provide cable lenghts for aircraft wiring from John and Paul Griffin @ www.lightflyin...
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It's nice to see your face Andy. It's been a while. I haven't been able to do much on my build in about a month between work commitments and some family time. Great work on everything. I really like the idea of hinges to make things easily accessible.
Hey Dan, Good to see you are still on the planet, thought you had been abducted by aliens. The hinge thing works so well, and it is so easy, and simple to do, with the added benefit of replacement, without pulling things apart.
Looks great Andy! I like the locking feature of that hinge pin. That's really important - they will work out if given a chance. Good job on the catch can and the interior also.
Hi Bryan, I am very happy with the result too. I get a bit worried about the hinge pin idea, so may add perhaps a wire or cable tie
@@pandyseven By 50 hours flight time I had a lot more fasteners and pins safetied than I did in the beginning!
I am hearing you
Looking good. I used also used the red RTV around the fuel filler on my Sonex A and found the RTV didn't like fuel and started flaking off. Have since removed and replaced it with the black gasket RTV which is good for oil. It seems more tolerant to fuel.
Hey thanks for the tip, will purchase some of that. That said I had to apply a second coat anyway so will try the black RTV. And peel as much of the red off as I can, thanks again
Hi Andy, you might want to flip the RDAC upside down so that the temperature inputs are on the left. The reason being that the CHT and EGT leads from the right side of the engine might not reach. They are not easily extendable. As usual you are doing an excellent job and it all looks great. I particularly like your cockpit and instrument panel. It's going to look great and far better than mine. Keep up the good work 😃
Hi Gavin, I just plonked the RADC in position and wondered which way it went thinking it could go either way, now it makes sense.
Looks nice! Maybe a good compromise would be a carbon fiber armrest that is very thin but placed at same height as top of one you made in last video….but make them clip on and clip off with some type of of friction snap or something…so you can have them off regularly, but clip them on after getting in plane for longer flights. Just thinking….
There are so many variations I have come up with, I thought should just use the K.I.S.S scenario. Carbon fibre idea was something I was going to do for the instrument panel, and still may do that down the track.
@@pandyseven Whatever you do, I know it will look fantastic and be highly functional! 🤩
Thanks Wayne