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toaster73(at)embarqmail.c
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Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: Home grown overhead console

Thought I would share some photos of my  recently completed overhead console.  I think it came out pretty good. I am  still finishing it up and need to add nut plates to mount the vents, also need  to add access plates etc.  I used blue foam as a mold. I shaped the  foam and then taped it on the top.  I used tape around the edges to protect  the cabin top.  The fillet was done with spackling compound.  I sanded  the foam and spackling smooth and then covered with mold release wax. Yes it  took some time but it was not difficult to do.

 So... it can be done without buying after market if  desired - no special skills.

 -Chris Lucas

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Deems Davis

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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:26 am Post subject: Home grown overhead console

Congratulations Chris! while it's not the tidiest environment to work 

in, fiberglass can be used for any number of applications, your project 

was an ambitious one, but it looks like it turned out quite well,



Deems Davis

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speckter(at)comcast.net
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:49 am Post subject: Home grown overhead console

Spoken like a true fiberglass convert



Gary Specketer



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coop85(at)cableone.net
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:07 am Post subject: Home grown overhead console

Chris,  

    Well done!  It looks great and is much less obtrusive then all the other options I've seen.  I've done a lot of fiberglass work (built a Q2 as my first project) but am not sure I could pull off what you did so well.  

   

Marcus  

   

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Thought I would share some photos of my recently completed overhead console.  I think it came out pretty good. I am still finishing it up and need to add nut plates to mount the vents, also need to add access plates etc.  I used blue foam as a mold. I shaped the foam and then taped it on the top.  I used tape around the edges to protect the cabin top.  The fillet was done with spackling compound.  I sanded the foam and spackling smooth and then covered with mold release wax. Yes it took some time but it was not difficult to do.  

    

So... it can be done without buying after market if desired - no special skills.  

    

-Chris Lucas  

    

 #40072  

  

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Deems Davis

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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:36 am Post subject: Home grown overhead console

Actually it's the other way around, after a Long-EZ and a Lancair 320, I 

wanted something 'cleaner' to work on, something where you didn't have 

to wait on 'cure' times' to govern work schedules, I thought an RV would 

be the ticket, .............   but Van's 'tricked me' !!!!!!! =-O



Deems



gary wrote:

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 Spoken like a true fiberglass convert



 Gary Specketer



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Bldgrv10450(at)comcast.ne
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:59 am Post subject: Home grown overhead console

Chris,

 Good job on the overhead. 

 You mentioned nut plates, and I wanted to tell you  about these: http://www.aerocraftparts.com/Categories.aspx?Category=07adfbee-0ad0-4593-a52e-30065aedb553

 Just drill your hole in the f/g part and epoxy  these in. You pull them into the drilled hole with the colored rubber bungy and  when set-up you just pull the bungy out and your done.

 Paul Grimstad

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toaster73(at)embarqmail.c
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject: Home grown overhead console

Thanks for such uplifting feedback everybody!  

 I always wanted a Lancair but settled for the RV-10  ;>) I shyed away as I learned more about composites, I would worry to no end  about my quality of cure I would be getting here in humid eastern CarolinaI, but  I actually kinda enjoy fiberglass in that it offers so much potential  though there is a price (time and mess).  .

  

 I built the courage up to do the console from  following the master of mod, Deems Davis! Thanks Deems.

  

 These nut plates are interesting, a bit pricey I'd  say. Thanks for the heads up!

 -Chris

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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:11 pm Post subject: Home grown overhead console

Thanks Marcus, it really is not that hard, I did  vascilate on the size especially the thickness. Also I will have a  headliner to cover the imperfections, and there are a few.

 -Chris

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