Covering interior corners

[Guest]

Re: Covering interior corners

OK, so a couple of things for y'all to know.
First, the trim cables run above the overhead tubes. So pulling the fabric up doesn't have an effect on them. see pic below.

Also, since I have wing tanks, I plan to put rectangular inspection plates in the fabric panels over the doors. That way I can remove them to connect the wing tanks and inspect anything back there. You'll see something similar in Terry's pictures.

My new antenna doesn't have a BNC connector like in the picture below. The new connection has the wire entering at 90° to the antenna. So the wire runs parallel to the fabric. But I plan to have an round inspection plate in the fabric at the base of the antenna.

Also remember that the pulleys and cables are all still visible. They are on the same side of the fabric as the pilot. Again, you can see this in Terry's photos. And I don't plan to have the vertical panel that you see behind Terry's head. So in my installation, you'll be able to see the aileron cables that run horizontally behind your head.

Hi Tim,

The trim cable is "missing" one fairlead in the picture.

That's old news I bet.

Dave

[Guest]

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My plane has fabric covered head liner

Hi Chuck,

In your third picture how does the aileron balance cable attach to the upper cabin aileron loop cable?

Dave

[cvavon]

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Dave not sure what you are looking at the the single cable goes out to bell cranks in the wing and the two cables close together go to the other side of the bell crank and start at the control column

[3Dreaming]

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Chuck, what he is asking is, how are the two cables that are close together attached to each other? The way yours is done is not quite like original.

[TimHicks]

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Hi Tim,

The trim cable is "missing" one fairlead in the picture.

That's old news I bet.

Dave

I was wondering who would be the first to comment on that. Yeah. I 've owned this airplane for 20 years. The first 5 years I spent trying to figure out a way to redo that cable correctly. The next 5 years, I gave up on rerouting it and just looked at it a lot looking for fraying cable or a slot being cut into the steel. The following 10 years, I've been thinking about recovering this bird and this cable was on the list of "things to fix when re-covering"

[Guest]

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Hi Tim,

I have a similar situation on an Aeronca.

I got small peice of phenolic sheet material about 1/8" thick and clamped it to the tubing under the cable with 2 Adel clamps.

Dave

[cvavon]

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Tribe the cables in my plane are hooked up wrong and will be fixed very soon hank has factory drawing and will be done that way photos on new thread will be posted with wright and wrong way the cables can be hooked up thanks Dave for calling this out Chuck

[Guest]

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Hi Hank,

Often we here that you have drawings (okay actually two or three times ).

May I suggest that you scan them into .pdf files and put them on the site for general use?

The Aeronca forum did something like that and it is quite handy.

Office max can scan fairly large drawings for a very reasonable fee and I bet that a few of us would pitch in to cover costs.

What say you?

Thanks, Dave.

[Hank Jarrett]

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Funny you should say that because the company that does the copies for me just suggested the same thing. What I will do is start scanning them when I make copies. The extra cost is minimal if you are making copies and I haven't checked on the cost of just scanning alone. A LOT of the drawings are more like sketches and tracings I have made as I made parts for my 41, but the 45 is next to be worked and there should be a lot of them being dug out to build her up from the PILE (literally a PILE) of rolled up drawings.
Hank

[cvavon]

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How about we start a thread to get a list of drawings that are out there and collect them in to this file for the group to use.

[Guest]

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Rather than a thread how about a category under Taylorcraft so no one ever has to search to find it?

Something like ; Forum -> Taylorcraft -> Drawings

Dave

[Hank Jarrett]

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OK, I REALLY like that idea. I would add a category containing threads. It would require some management, but nothing too bad. Mainly just to have the category for threads on different part data sheets and drawings/sketches. We would need some discipline to NOT use it for arguments (discussions) jokes and such, plus we would need a method to move mis-posted info to the right place (pictures or photos of tail wheel springs in with bungees for instance or ELT batteries mixed with aircraft batteries). I guess those could both be done at the same time. Just make a thread for stuff that was placed wrong so it isn't lost (might turn out the MOVER was wrong, not the information).

Hank

[cvavon]

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Shannon with a lot more IT knowledge then me suggested to put a new box on the home page just for drawings .

[TimHicks]

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So I took Terry's suggestion and sewed two straight seams in the fabric. It looks like it's gonna work pretty good.
But my first try at sucking up the headliner to the frame didn't work so good. I imagined that if I pulled it up in the center, it would form a litle pyramid and everything would follow the tubes. Instead it created a little divot in the middle and is basically flat everywhere else. So Now I'm planning to ribstitch it up to the tubes. I know that 3Dreaming thinks I'm crazy.

[TimHicks]

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another pic