Daily Archives: 29/05/2019

Centre Console, Chris Mills, Instrument Panel, Internal Trim, Panel, Wing Lockers

Wednesday 29th May 2019

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Music: Elton John and Dire Straits

I received two pieces of good news today. The first was the dispatch notification of my Airmaster propellor which will be delivered on the 4th June. And the second was that the ignition switch that I ordered 5 days ago was arriving from Germany today! With Chris here for a couple of days he can give me a hand to do some of the jobs that I haven’t got round to like installing the rivnuts for the interior panels and fitting the wing locker seals. I continued preparing the panel for the instrument fit and working out how best to install the centre console.

Chris came down to visit and give me a hand with some outstanding items.
As I’ve decided to make the interior panels removable rather than rivet them in Chris’ first job is to install the rivnuts that will take the 3mm button head retaining screws.
Who says I’m a slave driver! A happy worker 🙂
After the rivnuts the next job for Chris is to fit the wing locker seals to ensure that they are waterproof. As the seals are not included in the kit!?!? I’ve brought some draft excluder that should do the job.
Good job done. The seals will ensure that any luggage is kept dry
I continued prepping the panel for the instruments. These aluminium ‘washers’ are to spread the load of the nuts when used to secure the instruments.