Cabin air vent

[Bruce Caldwell]

Hey friends, I'm working on the last few items on a complete restoration of a 46 BC-12D NC958932 which hasn't flown for over 30 years. I need to put in a cabin air vent. I had to build a new boot cowl since the other one was trash and there was no cabin air vent on it. Any ideas or pictures. Thanks in advance for your help!!!

[Ragwing nut]

cabin heat box?

[Bruce Caldwell]

No, not the cabin heat, I have that, I' m looking for the cabin fresh air vent.

[3Dreaming]

Our airplane is a 1941 with the swing out windows. We have a vent in the side window. I have seen them in a boot cowl, but that is kind on an oddity. I wouldn't cut a hole for a vent in a new boot cowl. Here is a picture from 1939 of what Taylorcraft was doing at the time. It was mounted in the lower corner of the windshield.

[Bruce Caldwell]

On the 46 there is a push-pull cable net to the throttle and mixture cables. I've seen it on other t-crafts but not sure what it looks like or if I can find one somewhere.

[Ragwing nut]

No, not the cabin heat, I have that, I' m looking for the cabin fresh air vent.

they never had a fresh air vent on the firewall. just the cabin heat box. just have the slider windows in the doors.

[woodmw]

Old thread of plane that had vent added.

https://vb.taylorcraft.org/forum/taylorcraft/taylorcraft-airplane-registry/12197-n96234-kept-in-the-family?p=140912#post140912

[Hank Jarrett]

Our airplane is a 1941 with the swing out windows. We have a vent in the side window. I have seen them in a boot cowl, but that is kind on an oddity. I wouldn't cut a hole for a vent in a new boot cowl. Here is a picture from 1939 of what Taylorcraft was doing at the time. It was mounted in the lower corner of the windshield.

I have an original one of these vents and they were made from a plastic called "Pyrene". Pyrene was a REALLY terrible early clear plastic that would distort in temps you could easily get in a hangar, it was sensitive to almost any kind of fuel and oil and got really "crunchy" and would shatter if you bumped in to it. Easy to see why they are pretty rare now! I planned to make a form to vacuum mold replacements from thin plexi but because it has shrunken down over the years it is really a sculpting project. Haven't done much to make one since there didn't seem to be any demand from anyone else for them. Might be a nice project for this winter if there is enough interest to justify making some. The cockpit photo is from 1941 and you can see it in the middle of the bottom of the photo. These are old1941 photos and not of my plane or my vent which is pretty twisted up.


Hank

[Scott]

There's ad copy for the 46 BC12D that shows fresh air vents in the top side corners of the windshield
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[Hank Jarrett]

The photos I posted are the early vents in the upper corners of the windscreen. Note that on the pre war planes with the 4 piece flat front and curved sides and top as four pieces divided by metal strips the front flat piece is called a "Windshield" where the side pieces are called "Windscreens". After the war the one piece windshield was used and the single piece was all refereed to as the "Windshield".

Hank

[Bruce Caldwell]

Thanks tribe for all of your input! I should have looked closer at the blue prints to see what the original had. When I got this airplane it had a cabin air push pull knob and a hole in the cowl where the vent had been. I assumed that they all had one but I didn't want to cut a hole in my newly made boot cowl until I had the actual mechanism and pictures of how it was done. Looks like I will use my windows as cabin air. Thanks again!!! First engine run tomorrow after 30 years. So excited!!!

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Open a window.........................

[woodmw]

Many don't have windows that open.

[Woody]

My windows are solid with snap vents.