{"id":2248,"date":"2008-04-23T17:19:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T23:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2015-01-28T17:25:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T23:25:46","slug":"6-6-2-install-instrument-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/6-6-2-install-instrument-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"6.6.2 Install Instrument Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 25 of 42 in the series 06 - Fuselage<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The flow chart said to mount the instrument panel. This seems a bit premature, but hopefully the person that wrote the manual knows what they’re doing. (turns out they didn’t)
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The instrument panel is supposed to be 21″ aft of the canard bulkhead (That’s the bulkhead that the rudder pedals are mounted to). To make sure I get the right location, I marked a couple 3\/4″ x pieces of wood and clamped them to the canard bulkhead. This will give me the right distance. <\/span><\/p>\n

Then I tried to put the panel in. Tried is the operative word. It’s made oversized so I have to trim it to fit. Which means put it in as far as possible and mark where it binds, pull it out, trim and repeat. And repeat, and repeat. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Once I got the panel to fit in the correct location, I applied duct tape to the back edges. I then applied a 2 BID layup on the left, right and bottom middle of the panel and let it cure overnight. In the morning, I drilled holes through the panel where the layups were.<\/span><\/p>\n

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New mounting tabs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Panel temporarily held in place with clecos.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s what I learned much later:\u00a0 The panel didn’t have to get installed now. It could have (and should) have waited until much later.\u00a0 Had I waited, I would have mounted it farther aft.\u00a0 As it is now, with the seat in the position where I would be flying from, it’s a decent reach to get to the panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 25 of 42 in the series 06 - Fuselage<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The flow chart said to mount the instrument panel. This seems a bit premature, but hopefully the person that wrote the manual knows what they’re doing. (turns out they didn’t) \u00a0 The instrument panel is supposed to be 21″ aft … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[30],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","series-06-fuselage"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}