Michael Burbidge
Well Known Member
The last week I've been working on the forward cabin. I've completed match drilling the forward skin to the firewall and F-745 ribs, and other miscellaneous ribs. Everything fit well. The next step is to temporarily mount the instrument panel to the ends of the forward cabin ribs (F-745).
To my horror, when I went to mount the panel to the ribs I found that I could not get the holes in the panel to match up with the holes in the ends of the rib. The reason is because instrument panel is notched to make room for the forward canopy deck (F-721A). The top part of the notch rests on the deck. The fact that the instrument panel is resting on the canopy deck is preventing the instrument panel from going down far enough in the cabin to match up with the mounting holes on the forward cabin ribs.
The holes are off by about 1/8 of an inch. I can't see how everything fit so well and then this is off. Both the forward canopy deck and the ribs are very solid. I don't think applying a little force is going to solve the problem.
One thing I could do is trim the notch in the instrument panel so that the panel can rest down far enough to line up with the holes.
Has anyone experienced this problem. Any guesses as to what I might have done wrong? Did you trim the panel?
Thanks,
Michael-
To my horror, when I went to mount the panel to the ribs I found that I could not get the holes in the panel to match up with the holes in the ends of the rib. The reason is because instrument panel is notched to make room for the forward canopy deck (F-721A). The top part of the notch rests on the deck. The fact that the instrument panel is resting on the canopy deck is preventing the instrument panel from going down far enough in the cabin to match up with the mounting holes on the forward cabin ribs.
The holes are off by about 1/8 of an inch. I can't see how everything fit so well and then this is off. Both the forward canopy deck and the ribs are very solid. I don't think applying a little force is going to solve the problem.
One thing I could do is trim the notch in the instrument panel so that the panel can rest down far enough to line up with the holes.
Has anyone experienced this problem. Any guesses as to what I might have done wrong? Did you trim the panel?
Thanks,
Michael-