Panel Modifications (Dinosaurs, Dumpsters, and Dollars) Part VII
I’m sure that for most of us, our years in school are fondly remembered. I truly enjoyed the years I spent getting my industrial design degree at the University of…
Panel Modifications (Dinosaurs, Dumpsters, and Dollars) Part VI
I bet you thought we were finished with the electrical talk. Well, almost. I want to spend a little time discussing one last often-seen issue. In the last panel article…
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Panel Modifications (Dinosaurs, Dumpsters, and Dollars) Part V
With the trial and error of finalizing the panel design behind us, and an approval of the design drawing by the customer, it’s time to cut metal. The blank panel…
Panel Modifications (Dinosaurs, Dumpsters, and Dollars) Part IV
Writing about the next phase of building this panel presents me with a dilemma. My wife, Cynthia, is always telling me that women are multi-taskers and men are mono-taskers. I…
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Panel Modifications (Dinosaurs, Dumpsters, and Dollars) Part III
With all of the options and details described in the previous articles in your head, it’s time to start designing your new instrument panel. An optimal custom instrument panel installation…
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Panel Modifications (Dinosaurs, Dumpsters, and Dollars) Part II
As mentioned earlier, building a new instrument panel in an old airplane can be done on many different levels. You can choose to do a bare minimum of work installing…
Panel Modifications (Dinosaurs, Dumpsters, and Dollars) Part I
The realization that one is getting old presents itself in many ways. It often hits you when you look in a mirror and wonder what happened, or put on a…
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Interiors: The Inside Story – Part X
In this final article of our interior renovation series, we are down (literally) to the last subject to be covered, namely carpet. Of all the major components involved in renovating…
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Interiors: The Inside Story – Part IX
As if working on your side panels last month wasn’t tedious enough, we now move on to headliners. I’m amazed at how a company who had it so right could,…