[Walt]

Finally breaking down and upgrading my own panel. Bill from UpNorth Aviation was a pleasure to work withh on cutting the new panel, but trust me it's a lot of work!

"Old" panel:
(this was actually generation 3 of the first panel with multiple overlays)

New panel from UpNorth Aviation:
(3 1/8 AS, TT Vizion, Dual G3X, GMC 305, GTR200, GTX23ES, GDL39, MVP-50 and whiskey compass on the right)

What a mess!

Making progress:

 

[TS Flightlines]

Gee Walt---I'm glad you know where all those wires go!!!!!
Tom

 

[Walt]

Gee Walt---I'm glad you know where all those wires go!!!!!
Tom

Wires are nothing more than fuel/hydraulic lines except with electrons going in one end out out the other so you can make em smaller, connect one end here and the other one there and watch it work

 

[Walt]

Update, finally got the new panel up and running, trust me its a huge job to install a new panel and rewire half the plane

 

[grayforge]

Looks nice Walt!

Can't tell by the photo... does UpNorth Aviation machine the switch holes with the little anti-rotation tabs like the ones below?

 

[Walt]

Looks nice Walt!

Can't tell by the photo... does UpNorth Aviation machine the switch holes with the little ant-rotation tabs like the ones below?

Don't know the answer to that, I did mine with plane holes.

 

[grayforge]

Do you have a way to keep the switches from rotating if the switch nut ever loosened? The other way I've seen is to drill a 1/8" hole
above the main switch hole and use one of the tabbed washers to keep it oriented. One tab drops into the 1/8" hole and the other
goes into the slot in the switch's threaded shaft.

 

[Walt]

Do you have a way to keep the switches from rotating if the switch nut ever loosened? The other way I've seen is to drill a 1/8" hole
above the main switch hole and use one of the tabbed washers to keep it oriented. One tab drops into the 1/8" hole and the other
goes into the slot in the switch's threaded shaft.

Personally I don't bother with anti-rotation holes/devices, toggle switches are not subject to rotation unless you forget to tighten them.

 

[Pat Hatch]

Walt, very nice! What's going in the blank at the bottom of your stack?

 

[Walt]

After the bank account recovers... most likely a 400/430, ulimately I would love to have a 650.

 

[Brantel]

Awesome Walt! And I can appreciate fully the amount of work you just put into that!